Valenciniidae | |
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Baseodiscus princeps | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Nemertea |
Class: | Anopla |
Order: | Heteronemertea |
Family: | Valenciniidae |
Valenciniidae is a family of worms belonging to the order Heteronemertea. [1]
Genera: [1]
Lineus is a genus of nemertine worms, including the bootlace worm, arguably the longest animal alive. Lineus contains the following species:
William Stimpson was a noted American scientist. He was interested particularly in marine biology. Stimpson became an important early contributor to the work of the Smithsonian Institution and later, director of the Chicago Academy of Sciences.
Littorinimorpha is a large order of snails, gastropods, consisting primarily of sea snails, but also including some freshwater snails and land snails.
Loxorhynchus is a genus of crabs of the eastern Pacific Ocean in the family Epialtidae.
Cystiscidae is a taxonomic family of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks.
Caecum is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod micromolluscs or micromollusks in the family Caecidae or blind shells.
Inachidae is a family of crabs, containing 39 genera:
The Joubin Islands are a group of small islands lying 6 kilometres (3 nmi) south-west of Cape Monaco, Anvers Island, at the south-western end of the Palmer Archipelago of Antarctica. The islands were discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05, under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, and named by him for Louis Joubin, the French naturalist. They have been designated a Restricted Zone under ASMA 7 — Southwest Anvers Island and Palmer Basin — which includes the marine area extending 50 metres (55 yd) from the shorelines.
Pagurus samuelis, the blueband hermit crab, is a species of hermit crab from the west coast of North America, and the most common hermit crab in California. It is a small species, with distinctive blue bands on its legs. It prefers to live in the shell of the black turban snail, and is a nocturnal scavenger of algae and carrion.
Lineidae is a family of nemertean worms. It contains the following genera:
Acotylea is a suborder of free-living marine turbellarian flatworms in the order Polycladida.
Truncatelloidea is a superfamily of snails, gastropod mollusks in the clade Caenogastropoda.
Tubulanus is a genus of primitive nemertean worms in the order Palaeonemertea.
Mediaster is a genus of starfish in the family Goniasteridae. It was circumscribed in 1857 by William Stimpson for M. aequalis, the genus's type species. Its junior synonym is the genus Isaster, which was circumscribed in 1894 by Addison Emery Verrill for the species now known as M. bairdi. Verrill himself synonymized the two genus names in 1899.
Emplectonema is a genus of worms belonging to the family Emplectonematidae.
Emplectonematidae is a family of worms belonging to the order Hoplonemertea.
Baseodiscus is a genus of nemerteans belonging to the family Valenciniidae.
Cerebratulus is a genus of nemerteans belonging to the family Lineidae.
Diplopleura is a genus of nemerteans belonging to the family Lineidae.
Oerstedia is a genus of worms belonging to the family Oerstediidae.