Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Kinorhyncha > Class Allomalorhagida > Order Allomalorhagida incertae sedis > Family Pycnophyidae

Pycnophyes Zelinka, 1907

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Centrophyes*	Zelinka, 1907	synonym
*Hyalophyes*	Zelinka, 1907	synonym

Children

Centrophyes biserratus Zelinka, 1928
Centrophyes curvatus Zelinka, 1928
Centrophyes diffusus Zelinka, 1928
Centrophyes longihastatus Zelinka, 1928
Centrophyes moderatus Zelinka, 1928
Centrophyes rectilineatus Zelinka, 1928
Centrophyes tenuis Zelinka, 1928
Centrophyes validus Zelinka, 1928
Hyalophyes conspicuus Zelinka, 1928
Hyalophyes longisetosus Zelinka, 1928
Hyalophyes solidus Zelinka, 1928
Pycnophyes acercus (Reinhard, 1885) Bacescu, 1968
Pycnophyes almansae Sánchez, Herranz, Benito & Pardos, 2014
Pycnophyes ancalagon Sørensen & Grzelak, 2018
Pycnophyes aulacodes Sánchez, Pardos, Herranz & Benito, 2011
Pycnophyes biserratus (Zelinka, 1928)
Pycnophyes communis Zelinka, 1908
Pycnophyes conspicuus (Zelinka, 1928)
Pycnophyes curvatus (Zelinka, 1928)
Pycnophyes denticulatus (Zelinka, 1928)
Pycnophyes diffusus (Zelinka, 1928)
Pycnophyes dubius (Reinhard, 1885)
Pycnophyes echinoderoides Zelinka, 1928
Pycnophyes giganteus (Zelinka, 1908) Sánchez, Yamasaki, Pardos, Sørensen & Martínez, 2016
Pycnophyes longihastatus (Zelinka, 1928)
Pycnophyes longisetosus (Zelinka, 1928)
Pycnophyes metschnikoffi (Reinhard, 1885)
Pycnophyes moderatus (Zelinka, 1928)
Pycnophyes naviculus (Zelinka, 1928)
Pycnophyes paraneapolitanus (Sheremetevskij, 1974) Sánchez, Yamasaki, Pardos, Sørensen & Martínez, 2016
Pycnophyes parvulus (Reinhard, 1881)
Pycnophyes rectilineatus (Zelinka, 1928)
Pycnophyes robustus Zelinka, 1928
Pycnophyes solidus (Zelinka, 1928)
Pycnophyes tenuis (Zelinka, 1928)
Pycnophyes validus (Zelinka, 1928)
Pycnophyes zelinkaei Southern, 1914

Literature

original description	Zelinka, C. (1907). Zur Kenntnis der Echinoderen. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 32(5): 130-136.
basis of record	Neuhaus, B.; van der Land, J. (2001). Cephalorhyncha (=Loricifera, Priapulida, Kinorhyncha, Nematomorpha), in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 159-160
additional source	Neuhaus, B.; Higgins, R. P.; Paavo, B. (2010). Phylum Kinorhyncha: mud dragons, New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 2 Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. pp. 468-471.
additional source	Howson, C.M. & B.E. Picton. (1997). The species directory of the marine fauna and flora of the British Isles and surrounding seas. Ulster Museum Publication, 276. The Ulster Museum: Belfast, UK. ISBN 0-948150-06-8. vi, 508 (+ cd-rom) pp.
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 pp.
identification resource	Higgins, R. P. (1983). The Atlantic barrier reef ecosystem at Carrie Bow Cay, Belize, II. Kinorhyncha. Smithsonian Contributions to the Marine Sciences. 18: 1-131.
identification resource	Sánchez, N.; Pardos, F.; Sørensen, M. V. (2014). Deep-sea Kinorhyncha: two new species from the Guinea Basin, with evaluation of an unusual male feature. Organisms Diversity & Evolution. 14(4): 349-361.
identification resource	Adrianov, A. V.; Higgins, R. P. (1996). Pycnophyes parasanjuanensis, a new kinorhynch (Kinorhyncha: Homalorhagida: Pycnophyidae) from San Juan Island. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 109 (2): 236-247.
identification resource	Adrianov, A. V. (1995). The first description of kinorhynchs from the Spitsbergen Archipelago (Greenland Sea), with a key to the genus Pycnophyes (Homalorhagida, Kinorhyncha). Canadian Journal of Zoology. 73(8): 1554-1566.

Genbank

Citation

Neuhaus, B. (2025). World Kinorhyncha Database. Pycnophyes Zelinka, 1907. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:101089