Iwatanemertes piperata
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Iwatanemertes piperata   (Stimpson, 1855)

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Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Pilidiophora | Heteronemertea | Lineidae

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Benthic.  Subtropical

Distribution Territories | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Introductions

Northwest Pacific: Japan and Hong Kong.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 17.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 125683)

Short description Morphology

Rounded head bears a pair of shallow lateral cephalic furrows. Body narrows, ending in a bluntly pointed tip that does not have caudal cirrus.

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Intertidal to subtidal, on stones embedded in coarse silty sand. Also found on rocks and boulders covered by bivalves. Observed feeding on a juvenile arcid bivalve, Barbatia virescens (Ref. 125683).

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae

Main reference References | Coordinator | Collaborators

MarineSpecies.org 2050 MarineSpecies.org. http://www.marinespecies.org/index.php (Ref. 3477)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2 (Global))

  Not Evaluated 

CITES status (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless

Human uses


FAO - Publication: search | FishSource |

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BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO - Publication: search | Fishipedia | GenBank (genome, nucleotide) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | Tree of Life | Wikipedia (Go, Search) | Zoological Record

Estimates based on models

Fishing Vulnerability
(Ref. 71543)		 Low vulnerability (10 of 100).