Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Nemertea > Class Hoplonemertea > Order Monostilifera > Suborder Eumonostilifera > Infraorder Oerstediina > Family Oerstediidae

Oerstedia Quatrefages, 1846

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Cryptonemertes*	Gibson, 1986	synonym
*Oerstediella*	Friedrich, 1935	synonym
*Paroerstedia*	Friedrich, 1955	synonym

Children

Oerstedia actinophila (Bürger, 1904)
Oerstedia crassus (Senz, 1993)
Oerstedia dorsalis (Abildgaard, 1806)
Oerstedia immutabilis (Riches, 1893)
Oerstedia laminariae Friedrich, 1936
Oerstedia nigra (Riches, 1893)
Oerstedia rustica (Joubin, 1890)
Oerstedia similiformis (Friedrich, 1935)
Oerstedia striata Sundberg, 1988
Oerstedia tenuicollis (Kirsteuer, 1963)
Oerstedia wijnhoffae Friedrich, 1935

Literature

original description	Quatrefages, A. (1846). Étude sur les types inférieurs de l'embranchement des annelés. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Troisième Série, Zoologie. 6: 173–303.
additional source	Gibson, R. (2005). Nemertina DB. Liverpool John Moore University, UK.
additional source	Stiasny-Wijnhoff, G. (1930). Die Gattung Oerstedia. Zoologische Mededeelingen, Leiden, 13: 226-240
additional source	Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.
source of synonymy	Envall, M.; Sundberg, P. (1993). Intraspecific variation in nemerteans (Nemertea): synonymization of genera Paroerstedia and Oerstediella with Oerstedia. Journal of Zoology. 230(2): 293-318.

Genbank

Citation

Norenburg, J.; Chernyshev, A.; Kajihara, H.; Maslakova, S. (2025). World Nemertea Database. Oerstedia Quatrefages, 1846. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:122423