Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Order Sipuncula > Family Phascolosomatidae

Phascolosoma Leuckart, 1828

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Physcosoma*	Selenka, 1897	synonym

Children

Phascolosoma (Fisherana) (Stephen, 1965)
Phascolosoma (Phascolosoma) Leuckart, 1828

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: サメハダホシムシ属

Literature

original description	Leuckart, Friedrich Sigismund. (1828). Breves animalium quorundum maxima ex parte marinorum descriptiones. [book, perhaps thesis]. Heidelberg, Osswald, 24 pp.
additional source	van der Land, J. (2001). Sipuncula, 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. 178-179
additional source	Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].
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	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	Cutler, Norma J.; Cutler, Edward B. (1990). A revision of the subgenus Phascolosoma (Sipuncula: Phascolosoma). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 103(3) : 691-730.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Saiz-Salinas, J. (2025). World Sipuncula Database. Phascolosoma Leuckart, 1828. 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:136029