Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Echiura > Order Echiuroidea > Suborder Echiurida > Family Echiuridae

Echiurus Guérin-Méneville, 1831

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Echiurus abyssalis Skorikow, 1906
Echiurus echiurus (Pallas, 1766)

Literature

original description	Guérin-Méneville, F.E. (1831). Zoophytes. In: Iconographie du règne animal de G. Cuvier : ou, Représentation d'après nature de l'une des espèces les plus et souvent non encore figurées de chaque genre d'animaux. [Book, 3 volumes]. volume 2 & 3. B. Baillière (1829-1844).
additional source	Murina, Vantsetti. List of Echiura.
additional source	Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
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	van der Land, J. (2001). Echiura, 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. 178
additional source	Satô, H. (1939). Studies on the Echiuroidea, Sipunculoidea and Priapuloidea of Japan. Science Reports of the Tôhoku Imperial University, Fourth Series, Biology. 14 (4): 339–460, plates XIX–XXIII.
taxonomy source	Spengel, Johann Wilhelm. (1912). Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Gephyreen, IV. Revision der Gattung Echiurus. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Okologie und Geographie der Tiere. 33: 173-212, 1 pl (pl.7 follows p.378).