Aspidosiphonidae

Family of peanut worms

Aspidosiphonidae
Aspidosiphon steenstrupii
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Annelida
Class: Sipuncula
Order: Aspidosiphonida
Family: Aspidosiphonidae
Quatrefages, 1865
Genera
  • Aspidosiphon Diesing, 1851
  • Cloeosiphon Grube, 1868
  • Lithacrosiphon Shipley, 1902

Aspidosiphonidae is a family of peanut worms. It is the only family in the monotypic order Aspidosiphonida, which is in the class Phascolosomatidea.[1][2][3][4][5]

Description

The family Aspidosiphonidae is characterized by an oval disk with short tentacles, arranged in a crescent-shape made of an enclosed nuchal organ. It has a canal of sacs in the coelom, lying in a continuous band. The anal and caudal shield (at the anterior end) are both made up, not of chitin, but of a horny protein. It is of note that most, but not all, of the Aspidosiphonidae family has a caudal shield. The family also has two nephridia.[1][2][4][5]

Species

Aspidosiphon

  • Aspidosiphon albus Murina, 1967[4][5][6]
  • Aspidosiphon coyi de Quatrefages, 1865[4][5]
  • Aspidosiphon elegans (Chamisso and Eysenhardt, 1821)[4][5]
  • Aspidosiphon exiguus Edmonds 1974[4][5]
  • Aspidosiphon fischeri Broeke, A. ten, 1925[4][5]
  • Aspidosiphon gosnoldi Cutler, E., 1981[4][5]
  • Aspidosiphon gracilis (Baird, 1868)[4][5]
  • Aspidosiphon laevis de Quatrefages, 1865[4][5]
  • Aspidosiphon mexicanus Murina, 1967[4][5]
  • Aspidosiphon misakiensis Ikeda 1904[4][5]
  • Aspidosiphon muelleri Diesing 1851[4][5]
  • Aspidosiphon parvulus Gerould, 1913[4][5][6]
  • Aspidosiphon planoscutatus Murina, 1968[4][5]
  • Aspidosiphon spiralis Sluiter, 1902[4][5][6]
  • Aspidosiphon steenstrupii Diesing, 1859[4][5]
  • Aspidosiphon tenuis Sluiter, 1886[4][5]
  • Aspidosiphon thomassini Cutler and Cutler, 1979[4][5]
  • Aspidosiphon venabulum Selenka & Bulow, 1883[4][5]
  • Aspidosiphon zinni Cutler, 1969[4][5][6]

Cloeosiphon

  • Cloeosiphon aspergillus (de Quatrefages, 1865)[4][5]

Lithacrosiphon

  • Lithacrosiphon cristatus (Sluiter, 1902)[4][5]
  • Lithacrosiphon maldivensis Shipley 1902[4][5]

References

  1. ^ a b Gibbs, P.E. (1977): British sipunculans. Academic Press. London. 35p. ISBN 0-12-282050-9
  2. ^ a b Ditadi, A.S.F. & Migotto, A.E. (1982): O Filo Sipuncula. Concelho Nacional de Desemvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico CNPq Brasilia. 43p.
  3. ^ Cutler, Edward B. & Gibbs, Peter E. (1985): A Phylogenetic analysis of higher taxa in the Phylum Sipuncula. Systematic Zoology 34(2):162-173.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x Cutler, Edward B. & Cutler, Norma J (1989): A revision of the genus Aspidosiphon (Sipuncula: Aspidosiphonidaea). Proceedings of Biological Society of Washington 102(4):826-865 Bistor
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x Cutler, Edward B. (1994): The Sipuncula: their systematic, biology and evolution. 406p ISBN 0-8014-2843-2 Google Books
  6. ^ a b c d Cutler, Edward B. (1973): Sipuncula of the Western North Atlantic. Bulletin of American Museum of Natural History 152(3)103-201. New York.

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Taxon identifiers
Aspidosiphonidae
  • Wikidata: Q2341972
  • Wikispecies: Aspidosiphonidae
  • AFD: Aspidosiphonidae
  • BOLD: 80547
  • CoL: 6TG
  • GBIF: 3389
  • iNaturalist: 423576
  • IRMNG: 113816
  • ITIS: 154805
  • NBN: NHMSYS0021057489
  • NCBI: 91377
  • NZOR: 5dc2a2ee-0571-4af0-bd76-26039e8be584
  • Open Tree of Life: 665555
  • WoRMS: 1644
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