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This article provides an overview of the species composition of the phylum Nemertea in the Far Eastern seas of Russia. The list of nemerteans includes at least 200 species from the classes Palaeonemertea, Pilidiophora, and Hoplonemertea. Many of the species proved to be new to science; most of them remain undescribed. Currently, the use of gene markers is often the only approach to discriminating between closely related species and identifying them accurately. The well-studied nemertean fauna of Peter the Great Bay (73 species), Sea of Japan, has become a basis for comprehensive studies of these invertebrates at the Zhirmunsky National Scientific Center of Marine Biology, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The author is grateful to his colleagues for the joint study on nemerteans from the Far Eastern seas of Russia, as well as for providing the collected material. Special thanks are due to researchers T.Yu. Magarlamov, A.S. Maiorova, and N.E. Polyakova from the Zhirmunsky National Scientific Center of Marine Biology, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences.

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The work on this review was financially supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project no. 18-04-00704).

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Chernyshev, A.V. Nemerteans from the Far Eastern Seas of Russia. Russ J Mar Biol 46, 141–153 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063074020030049

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