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Sipuncula Stephen, 1965

Rank: Order
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Order group names

*Sipunculida*		synonym

Children

Antillesomatidae Kawauchi, Sharma & Giribet, 2012
Aspidosiphonidae Baird, 1868
Golfingiidae Stephen & Edmonds, 1972
Phascolosomatidae Stephen & Edmonds, 1972
Siphonosomatidae Kawauchi, Sharma & Giribet, 2012
Sipuncula incertae sedis
Sipunculidae Rafinesque, 1814

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: pindawormen; spuitwormen

English: peanut worms; sipunculan worms; sipunculid worms

French: siponcles

Japanese: 星口動物門 sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Swedish: stjärnmaskar

Literature

original description	Stephen, A. C. (1965). A revision of the classification of the phylum Sipuncula. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (Series 13) 7 (80): 457–462.
additional source	Margulis, L.; Schwartz, K.V. (1998). Five Kingdoms: an illustrated guide to the Phyla of life on earth. 3rd edition. Freeman: New York, NY (USA). ISBN 0-7167-3027-8. xx, 520 pp.
additional source	Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.
additional source	Franco, Letícia C.; Magalhães, Wagner F.; Guimarães, Lívia. S.; Oliveira, Deisiane ; Rocha, Erika C.; Kawauchi, Gisele Y. (2024). Four new records of Sipuncula (Annelida) from Northern Brazil. Zootaxa. 5410(1): 134-144.
status source	Schulze, A.; Boyle, M. J.; Kawauchi, G. Y.; Kerbl, A.; Worsaae, K. (2019). Sipuncula. Lobatocerebridae. [Book chapter]. Chapter 6, p177-216 In: Handbook of Zoology [Annelida. Basal groups and Pleistoannelida, Sedentaria 1], edited by G. Purschke, M. Böggemann and W. Westheide. De Gruyter.
taxonomy source	Gómez-Vásquez, Julio D. (2024). New records and five new species of sipunculans (Sipuncula) from the central and northwestern Mexican Pacific. European Journal of Taxonomy. 925: 179-219.
identification resource	Cutler, Edward B.; Schulze, Anja; Dean, Harlan K. (2004). The Sipuncula of sublittoral New Zealand, with a key to all New Zealand species. Zootaxa. 525(1): 1-19.