Sipunculus
Genus of worms
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Sipunculus is a genus of worms belonging to the family Sipunculidae.[1]
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| Sipunculus nudus | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Annelida |
| Class: | Sipuncula |
| Order: | Golfingiida |
| Family: | Sipunculidae |
| Genus: | Sipunculus Linnaeus, 1766 |
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Taxonomy
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Sipunculus is a variant spelling of the Latin siphunculus ("little tube"),[2] a diminutive of sipho from Greek σίφων (síphōn, "tube, pipe").
Siphunculus was used for fossilized worm-shaped organisms like Siphunculus scaber by the Welsh naturalist Edward Lhuyd in 1699.[3] In the next century, the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus used the scientific name Sipunculus nudus for a species of worms in his 1766 Systema Naturae.[4] In 1814, the French zoologist Constantine Samuel Rafinesque used the feminine form Sipuncula to distinguish the family including S. nudus;[5] this was later elevated to the Sipuncula class, the family being renamed Sipunculidae and the species reorganized into different genera.[6]
Distribution
The genus has cosmopolitan distribution.[1]
Species
Species included in Sipunculus are:[1]
- Sipunculus angasoides Chen, 1963
- Sipunculus clavatus de Blainville, 1827
- Sipunculus corallicolus Pourtalès, 1851
- Sipunculus echinorhynchus Chiaje, 1823
- Sipunculus gulfus Hylleberg, 2014
- Sipunculus indicus Peters, 1850
- Sipunculus lomonossovi Murina, 1968
- Sipunculus longipapillosus Murina, 1968
- Sipunculus macrorhynchus de Blainville, 1827
- Sipunculus marcusi Ditadi, 1976
- Sipunculus microrhynchus de Blainville, 1827
- Sipunculus mundanus Selenka & Bülow, 1883
- Sipunculus norvegicus Danielssen, 1869
- Sipunculus nudus Linnaeus, 1766
- Sipunculus phalloides (Pallas, 1774)
- Sipunculus polymyotus Fisher, 1947
- Sipunculus robustus Keferstein, 1865
- Sipunculus rubens Costa, 1860
- Sipunculus rufofimbriatus Blanchard, 1849
- Sipunculus saccatus Linnaeus, 1767
- Sipunculus thailandicus Hylleberg, 2014
- Sipunculus zenkevitchi Murina, 1969