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

Echiurus echiurus (Pallas, 1766)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

EchiurusGuérin-Méneville, 1831accepted genus name

Species group names

Lumbricus echiurus Pallas, 1766 synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 Danish: almindelig tungeorm sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Dutch: zandworm sources: Hayward, P.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1999). Gids van kust en strand: flora en fauna [Coast and beach guide: flora and fauna]. Tirion: Baarn, Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-327-5. 352, ill. pp.
 English: Fat innkeeper; Spoonworm sources: Volvenko, I. V.; Orlov, A. M.; Gebruk, A. V.; Katugin, O. N.; Ogorodnikova, A. A.; Vinogradov, G. M.; Maznikova, O. A. (2019). Checklist of the trawl macrofauna from the North Pacific and adjacent seas with information about fishery importance, potential product yield, and price range, supplement to: Volvenko, Igor V; Orlov, Alexei M; Gebruk, Andrey V; Katugin, Oleg N; Ogorodnikova, Alla A; Vinogradov, Georgy M; Maznikova, Olga A (in prep.): Trawl macrofauna of the Far-Eastern Seas and North Pacific: proportion of commercial species, potential product yield, and price rang. Earth System Science Data. PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science.
 Russian: Эхиурус обыкновенный

Literature

additional source

Murina, Vantsetti. List of Echiura.

additional source

van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO).

additional source

Biseswar, Ramlall. (2019). The echiuran fauna of southern Africa (Class: Echiura, Phylum: Annelida). African Zoology. 54(2): 73–90.

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.

additional source

Pallas, P. S. (1774). Spicilegia zoologica, quibus novae imprimis et obscurae animalium species iconibus, descriptionibus atque commentariis illustrantur cura P.S. Pallas. [Book series, 14 volumes]. Fasciculus 10, pp. 1–41, 4 plates.

additional source

Cutler, E.B. (2009). Phylum Echiura: spoon worms, in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. pp. 308-311.

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.

additional source

Wesenberg-Lund, E. (1933). The collections of gephyreans in the Royal Museum of Natural History of Belgium. Bulletin du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique. 9(6): 1–16.

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Citation

WoRMS (2025). Echiurus echiurus (Pallas, 1766). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=110377

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Occurrence

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Environment


marine, not brackish, not fresh, not terrestrial

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