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

Pycnophyes communis Zelinka, 1908

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Pycnophyes*	Zelinka, 1907	accepted genus name
*Centrophyes*	Zelinka, 1907	synonym
*Hyalophyes*	Zelinka, 1907	synonym

Species group names

*Hyalophyes calmani*	Zelinka, 1928	synonym
*Hyalophyes communis*	Zelinka, 1928	synonym
*Pycnophyes calmani*	Zelinka, 1928	synonym

Literature

original description	Zelinka, C. (1908). Zur Anatomie der Echinoderen. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 33 (19/20): 629-647.
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	Dal Zotto, M.; Di Domenico, M.; Garraffoni, A.; Sørensen, M. V. (2013). Franciscideres gen. nov. – a new, highly aberrant kinorhynch genus from Brazil, with an analysis of its phylogenetic position. Systematics and Biodiversity. 11(3): 303-321.
additional source	van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO).
additional source	Neuhaus, B. (2013). 5. Kinorhyncha (= Echinodera). In: Schmidt-Rhaesa, A. (Ed.), Handbook of Zoology, Gastrotricha, Cycloneuralia and Gnathifera, Volume 1: Nematomorpha, Priapulida, Kinorhyncha, Loricifera. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin,. pp. 181-348.
redescription	Zelinka, K. (1928). Monographie der Echinodera. Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig. 1-396, plates I-XXVII.
ecology source	Curds, C. R. (1987). A revision of the Suctoria (Ciliophora, Kinetofragminophora) 5. The Paracineta and Corynophrya problem. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology Series. 52 (2): 71-106.
ecology source	Dal Zotto, M.; Todaro, M. A. (2016). Kinorhyncha from Italy, a revision of the current checklist and an account of the recent investigations. Zoologischer Anzeiger - A Journal of Comparative Zoology. 265: 90-107.
ecology source	Sánchez, N.; Herranz, M.; Benito, J.; Pardos, F. (2012). Kinorhyncha from the Iberian Peninsula: new data from the first intensive sampling campaigns. Zootaxa. 3402(1): 24-44.
ecology source	Zelinka, C. (1914). Zwei Ektoparasiten der Echinoderen aus der Klasse der Ciliaten. Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte. 85. Versammlung zu Wien, Teil 2, 1. Hälfte, Nr. 13, 680-683.
ecology source	Dal Zotto, M., A. Santulli, R. Simonini & M.A. Todaro. (2016). Organic enrichment effects on a marine meiofauna community, with focus on Kinorhyncha. Zoologischer Anzeiger - A Journal of Comparative Zoology. 265: 127-140.
biology source	Nyholm, K.-G. (1976). Ultrastructure of the spermatozoa in Homalorhagha Kinorhyncha. ZOON. 4 (1): 11-18.
biology source	Nyholm, K.-G.; Nyholm, P.-G. (1982). Spermatozoa and spermatogenesis in Homalorhagha Kinorhyncha. Journal of Ultrastructure Research. 78(1): 1-12.
biology source	Zelinka, C. (1912). Die Spermatozoen der Echinoderen und ihre Genese. In: Ritter von Stummer-Traunfels, R. (ed.), Verhandlungen des VIII. Internationalen Zoologen-Kongresses zu Graz vom 15.-20. August 1910. Gustav Fischer, Jena. 520-527.
biology source	Nyholm, K.-G.; Nyholm, P.-G. (1983). 11. Kinorhyncha. In: Adiyodi, K.G. & Adiyodi, R.G. (eds), Reproductive biology of invertebrates, Vol. II: Spermatogenesis and sperm function. John Wiley & Sons, New York. pp. 207-220.

Genbank

Citation

Neuhaus, B. (2025). World Kinorhyncha Database. Pycnophyes communis Zelinka, 1908. 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:101137