Valencinura bahusiensis, BERGENDAL, 1902

Kajihara, Hiroshi, Abukawa, Shushi & Chernyshev, Alexei V., 2022, Exploring the basal topology of the heteronemertean tree of life: establishment of a new family, along with turbotaxonomy of Valenciniidae (Nemertea: Pilidiophora: Heteronemertea), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 196, pp. 503-548 : 522-523

VALENCINURA BAHUSIENSIS BERGENDAL, 1902

Valencinura bahusiensis Bergendal, 1902: 14–18 , figs 4–6; Strand et al., 2010: 122, with three unnumbered figures.

Sequence: GU392026 , COI (692 bp), determined by Strand & Sundberg (2011) .

External features: Strand et al. (2010: 122) gave the following summary for the species: ‘Length up to 6 cm, width up to 2 mm. An inconspicuous heteronemertean lacking eyes, furrows and slits. Body stout, circular in cross section, whitish with greyish tinge posteriorly. Anterior end tapering to a pointed nose, posterior end broad and blunt with a caudal cirrus. Mouth visible as an orange dot ventrally.’

Distribution: Swedish west coast, outside Lysekil and in the Kosterfjord (Bergendal, 1902; Strand et al., 2010; Strand & Sundberg, 2011).

Remarks: According to Strand et al. (2010), the specimen sequenced was collected in 2007 from a depth of 30 m on a rough-sandy seabed with a mixture of algal residue and other organic material.