Priapulidae is the canonical family of priapulid worms, comprising Priapulus and Priapulosis as well as the Carboniferous genus Priapulites.[1]

Priapulidae
Temporal range: Recent (Stem-group from the Carboniferous)
Priapulus caudatus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Priapulida
Class: Priapulimorpha
Order: Priapulimorphida
Family: Priapulidae
Gosse, 1855
Genera

Systematics

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Classification and maximum trunk length:[2][3][4]

  • Family Priapulidae
    • Genus Acanthopriapulus
      • Species A. horridus (24.5 mm)
    • Genus Priapulopsis
      • Species P. australis (50 mm)
      • Species P. bicaudatus (100 mm)
      • Species P. cnidephorus (only known from a postlarval specimen)
    • Genus Priapulus
      • Species P. abyssorum (30 mm)
      • Species P. caudatus (200 mm)
      • Species P. tuberculatospinosus (200 mm)

References

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  1. ^ Budd, G. E.; Jensen, S. (2000). "A critical reappraisal of the fossil record of the bilaterian phyla". Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 75 (2): 253–95. doi:10.1111/j.1469-185X.1999.tb00046.x. PMID 10881389. S2CID 39772232.
  2. ^ Schmidt-Rhaesa, Andreas; Cañete, Juan I.; Mutschke, Erika (2022). "New record and first description including SEM and μCT of the rare priapulid Acanthopriapulus horridus (Priapulida, Scalidophora)". Zoologischer Anzeiger. 298: 1. Bibcode:2022ZooAn.298....1S. doi:10.1016/j.jcz.2022.03.001.
  3. ^ Schmidt-Rhaesa, Andreas; Raeker, Jan (2023). "Morphology of larval and postlarval stages of Priapulopsis bicaudatus (Danielssen, 1869) (Priapulida) from the north atlantic ocean". Zoologischer Anzeiger. 302: 1. Bibcode:2023ZooAn.302....1S. doi:10.1016/j.jcz.2022.11.006.
  4. ^ Schmidt-Rhaesa, Andreas (21 December 2012). Handbook of Zoology. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-027253-6.