Verrillianemertes schultzei Senz, 2001

Kajihara, Hiroshi, 2021, Higher classification of the Monostilifera (Nemertea: Hoplonemertea), Zootaxa 4920 (2), pp. 151-199 : 177

Verrillianemertes schultzei Senz, 2001

Remarks

Described based on four specimens from Umm al-Dalkh oil field in the Persian Gulf, off the United Arab Emirates, up to 3 mm in body length. With two to six eyes. The rhynchocoel is half the length of the body; its wall is mainly composed of circular muscle fibres, but longitudinal muscle fibres are also interwoven to varying degrees, a condition otherwise not hitherto reported in Monostilifera . The cerebral organs are simple, reaching back to 66% of the pre-septal region; the position of the organs thus differs from that in Cratenemertea .A stylet apparatus is missing from V. schultzei . Whether or not the mid-dorsal vessel forms a vascular plug is unknown. While the type species of the genus Verrillianemertes rathkei Senz, 2001 likely belongs in Amphiporina , V. schultzei cannot be placed with certainty in any of the higher taxon recognized in this paper.