Sipunculus is a genus of worms belonging to the family Sipunculidae.[1]
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| Sipunculus nudus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| 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
editThe genus has cosmopolitan distribution.[1]
Species
editSpecies 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
References
edit- ^ a b c d "Sipunculus". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 2023-12-16.
- ^ "Sipuncula". Oxford Living Dictionaries. Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on 12 February 2019. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
- ^ Lhuyd, Edward (1699), Lithophylacii Britannici Ichnographia sive Lapidum Aliorum Fossilium Britannicorum Singulari Figura Insignium, quotquot Hactenus vel Ipse Invenit vel ab Amicis Accepit Distributio Classica... (in Latin), Oxford: Clarendon Press, §§ 1201 ff.
- ^ Saiz-Salinas, José (2009). "Sipunculus (Sipunculus) nudus Linnaeus, 1766". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
- ^ Rafinesque, Constantine Samuel (1814). Précis des découvertes et travaux somiologiques de m.r C. S. Rafinesque-Schmaltz entre 1800 et 1814 ou Choix raisonné de ses principales découvertes en zoologie et en botanique. Royale typographie militaire, aux dépens de l'auteur. p. 32.
- ^ "Sipuncula". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. 2018. Retrieved 27 February 2019.