Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Kinorhyncha > Class Allomalorhagida > Order Allomalorhagida incertae sedis

Pycnophyidae Zelinka, 1896

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Family group names

*Trachydemidae*	Zelinka, 1896	synonym; comb. ined.

Children

Cristaphyes Sánchez, Yamasaki, Pardos, Sørensen & Martínez, 2016
Fujuriphyes Sánchez, Yamasaki, Pardos, Sørensen & Martínez, 2016
Higginsium Sánchez, Yamasaki, Pardos, Sørensen & Martínez, 2016
Kinorhynchus Sheremetevskij, 1974
Krakenella Sánchez, Yamasaki, Pardos, Sørensen & Martínez, 2016
Leiocanthus Sánchez, Yamasaki, Pardos, Sørensen & Martínez, 2016
Pycnophyes Zelinka, 1907
Setaphyes Sánchez, Yamasaki, Pardos, Sørensen & Martínez, 2016

Literature

original description	Zelinka, C. (1896). Demonstration der Tafeln der Echinoderes-Monographie. Verhandlungen der Deutschen Zoologischen Gesellschaft. 6: 197-199.
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	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	Sánchez, N.; Yamasaki, H.; Pardos, F.; Sørensen, M. V.; Martínez, A. (2016). Morphology disentangles the systematics of a ubiquitous but elusive meiofaunal group (Kinorhyncha: Pycnophyidae). Cladistics. 32(5): 479-505.
biology source	Cepeda, D.; Trigo, D.; Pardos, F.; Sánchez, N. (2020). Does sediment composition sort kinorhynch communities? An ecomorphological approach through geometric morphometrics. Scientific Reports. 10, 2603: 1-12.
biology source	Dovgal, I; Chatterjee, T.; Ingole, B.; Nanajkar, M. (2008). First report of Limnoricus ponticus Dovgal & Lozowskiy (Ciliophora: Suctorea) as epibionts on Pycnophyes (Kinorhyncha) from the Indian Ocean with key to species of the genus Limnoricus. Cahiers de Biologie Marine. 49: 381-385.
biology source	Cepeda, D.; Álamo, D.; Sánchez, N.; Pardos, F. (2019). Allometric growth in meiofaunal invertebrates: do all kinorhynchs show homogeneous trends?. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 187(4): 1041-1060.

Genbank

Citation

Neuhaus, B. (2025). World Kinorhyncha Database. Pycnophyidae Zelinka, 1896. 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:101074