First record of Euborlasia nigrocincta Coe, 1940 (Nemertea: Heteronemertea) from the western Pacific

Hiroshi Kajihara; Eijiroh Nishi

doi:10.15560/9.4.826

Check List 9(4): 826-828, doi: 10.15560/9.4.826

First record of Euborlasia nigrocincta Coe, 1940 (Nemertea: Heteronemertea) from the western Pacific

Hiroshi Kajihara^‡, Eijiroh Nishi^§

‡ Hokkaido University, Japan§ Yokohama National University, Japan

Corresponding author: Hiroshi Kajihara ( kazi@mail.sci.hokudai.ac.jp )

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Citation: Kajihara H, Nishi E (2013) First record of Euborlasia nigrocincta Coe, 1940 (Nemertea: Heteronemertea) from the western Pacific. Check List 9(4): 826-828. https://doi.org/10.15560/9.4.826

Abstract

The heteronemertean Euborlasia nigrocincta Coe, 1940 was previously known exclusively from the eastern Pacific. A specimen collected on the Izu Peninsula, Honshu, Japan, herein identified as E. nigrocincta, represents the first record of the species from the western Pacific, increasing the western extent of the species’ known range by more than 8300 km and indicating an amphi-Pacific distribution

Keywords

Nemertea; Lineidae; western Pacific