Priapulidae

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

Priapulidae
Temporal range:
Priapulus caudatus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Priapulida
Class: Priapulimorpha
Order: Priapulimorphida
Family: Priapulidae
Gosse, 1855
Genera

Systematics

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
  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. New record and first description including SEM and μCT of the rare priapulid Acanthopriapulus horridus (Priapulida, Scalidophora)
  3. Morphology of larval and postlarval stages of Priapulopsis bicaudatus (Danielssen, 1869) (Priapulida) from the north atlantic ocean
  4. Handbook of Zoology


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