Phylogeny of the eureptantic nemerteans revisited

In this paper, we revisit the phylogeny of the eureptantic nemerteans. Thre e species (Kameginemertes parmiornatus, Drepanophoriella histriana, and Pol yschista curacaoensis), not present in the original analyses by Harlin & Su ndberg (1995), are included, and in the light of the new results we discuss the phylogenetic taxonomy as well as biogeography of the Eureptantia. The biogeography is assessed by dispersal-vicariance analysis (Ronquist 1997), and the new phylogenetic taxonomy is based on developments (Harlin 1998b, 1 999b; Harlin & Sundberg 1998) of nomenclatural ideas originally presented b y de Queiroz & Gauthier (1990, 1992).