APHOTOMARINE

An educational resource dedicated mainly to the photography
and diversity of marine life that can be found in coastal waters
and intertidal areas of Great Britain and Ireland by David Fenwick.

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Lineid nemertean
Tenuilineus albocinctus
- worm 1

Lineid nemertean
Tenuilineus albocinctus
- worm 2

Lineid nemertean
Tenuilineus albocinctus
- worm 3

Lineid nemertean
Tenuilineus albocinctus
- worm 4

Lineid nemertean
Tenuilineus albocinctus
- worm 5

Lineid nemertean
Tenuilineus albocinctus
- with 1.0mm division rule - in a relaxed state 1

Lineid nemertean
Tenuilineus albocinctus
- lateral view anterior 1

Lineid nemertean
Tenuilineus albocinctus
- dorsal view head 1

Lineid nemertean
Tenuilineus albocinctus
- dorsal view head 2

Lineid nemertean
Tenuilineus albocinctus
- cephalic furrows 1

Lineid nemertean
Tenuilineus albocinctus
- lateral view anterior 2

Lineid nemertean
Tenuilineus albocinctus
- dorsal view middle 1

Lineid nemertean
Tenuilineus albocinctus
- dorsal view posterior 1

Lineid nemertean
Tenuilineus albocinctus
- dorsal view posterior 2

Lineid nemertean
Tenuilineus albocinctus
- lateral view posterior 1

Lineid nemertean
Tenuilineus albocinctus
- habitat / location 1

Lineid nemertean
Tenuilineus albocinctus
- habit / location 2

The specimen above was found in a sediment sample taken near the low tide mark on an extra low tide at Marra Pool, Mount Batten, Plymouth, Devon, 04.03.22.

Lineid nemertean
Tenuilineus albocinctus
- dorsal view 1

Lineid nemertean
Tenuilineus albocinctus
- dorsal view 2

Lineid nemertean
Tenuilineus albocinctus
- dorsal view 3

Lineid nemertean
Tenuilineus albocinctus
- anterior 1

Lineid nemertean
Tenuilineus albocinctus
- anterior 2

Lineid nemertean
Tenuilineus albocinctus
- with 0.1mm division rule 1

Lineid nemertean
Tenuilineus albocinctus
- anterior under microscope 1

Lineid nemertean
Tenuilineus albocinctus
- anterior under microscope 2

Lineid nemertean
Tenuilineus albocinctus
- habitat / location 1

Lineid nemertean
Tenuilineus albocinctus
- habitat / location 2

Lineid nemertean
Tenuilineus albocinctus
- habitat / location 3

The specimen here is just over 3.5mm in length and is a very small juvenile. The specimen was found on sieving clean sand just beyond the low tide mark near Western Cressars reef, Penzance, Cornwall, 05.07.20. The species occurs with what Ray Gibson and I think is the little known nemertean Carinesta anglica (to be verified).

Thanks go to both Malin Strand and Jon Norenburg for identifying this species via the Facebook Group "Nemerteans - sharing our unpublished knowledge". The identification was made harder because the species had not been reported in the UK before.

The main objective of this website is in furthering environmental awareness and education through the medium of photography. To increase awareness and access to the wildlife of the region and help

people find and identify it. Sometimes the difference between species is obvious but many species can only be determined by observing microscopic characteristics that are specific to any one species.