Cerebratulus marginatus

Cerebratulus marginatus
C. marginatus on left
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Nemertea
Class: Pilidiophora
Order: Heteronemertea
Family: Lineidae
Genus: Cerebratulus
Species:
C. marginatus
Binomial name
Cerebratulus marginatus
Renier, 1804
Synonyms
  • Avenardia alileuti Giard, 1878
  • Avenardia priei
  • Borlasia alileuti
  • Cerebratulus angulosus Haddon, 1886
  • Cerebratulus fragilis
  • Cerebratulus grandis
  • Cerebratulus spraguei
  • Gordius fragilis
  • Lineus beattiaei (Gray, 1857)
  • Meckelia beattiaei (Gray, 1857)
  • Meckelia serpentaria Diesing, 1850
  • Meckelia somatotomus Leuckart, 1828
  • Nemertes somatotomus
  • Ophyocephalus bilineata
  • Ophyocephalus bilineatus
  • Polia siphunculus Delle Chiaje, 1828
  • Serpentaria beattiei (Gray, 1857)

Cerebratulus marginatus is a proboscis worm in the family Lineidae. This ribbon worm has an Arctic distribution, and in the North Atlantic Ocean ranges as far south as Cape Cod and the Mediterranean Sea while in the Pacific Ocean it extends southwards to California.

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