Geonemertes rodericana (Gulliver, 1879)
Rodrigues terrestrial ribbon worm
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Tetrastemma rodericanum Gulliver, 1879 (original combination)
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: 1918 (Gerlach, 2014b)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
A search in 1993 failed to find any individuals of this species (Moore et al., 1995).
Distribution
Rodrigues, Mascarene Islands
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Gulliver, G. (1879). Turbellaria. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 168: 557-563.
Other references:
Gerlach, Justin. (2014a). Geonemertes rodericana. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 07 July 2014.
Gerlach, Justin. (2014b). Geonemertes rodericana. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2014: e.T9066A21426550. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-1.RLTS.T9066A21426550.en. Accessed on 14 June 2022.
Groombridge, B. (ed.). (1994). 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
IUCN. (1990). IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
Moore, J., Gibson, R. and Jones, H. D. (2001). Terrestrial nemerteans thirty years on. Hydrobiological 456: 1-6.
Moore, J, Moore, N. W., and Gibson, R. (1995). Land nemertines of Rodrigues. Journal of Zoology 237:2 241-257. [Abstract]
Norenburg, J., Gibson, R., Herrera Bachiller, A. and Strand, M. (2022). World Nemertea Database. Geonemertes rodericana (Gulliver, 1879). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=597682 on 2022-04-03
Wells, S.M., Pyle, R.M. and Collins, N.M. (compilers) 1983. The IUCN Invertebrate Red Data Book. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.