Sipunculus is a genus of worms belonging to the family Sipunculidae.
Taxonomy
is a variant spelling of the Latin ("little tube"), a diminutive of from Greek (síphōn, "tube, pipe").
was used for fossilized worm-shaped organisms like by the Welsh naturalist Edward Lhuyd in 1699. In the next century, the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus used the scientific name for a species of worms in his 1766 . In 1814, the French zoologist Constantine Samuel Rafinesque used the feminine form to distinguish the family including ; this was later elevated to the class, the family being renamed and the species reorganized into different genera.
Distribution The genus has cosmopolitan distribution.
Species Species included in Sipunculus are:
Sipunculus angasoides Sipunculus clavatus Sipunculus corallicolus Sipunculus echinorhynchus Sipunculus gulfus Sipunculus indicus Sipunculus lomonossovi Sipunculus longipapillosus Sipunculus macrorhynchus Sipunculus marcusi Sipunculus microrhynchus Sipunculus mundanus Sipunculus norvegicus Sipunculus nudus Sipunculus phalloides Sipunculus polymyotus Sipunculus robustus Sipunculus rubens Sipunculus rufofimbriatus Sipunculus saccatus Sipunculus thailandicus Sipunculus zenkevitchi
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