Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Kinorhyncha > Class Allomalorhagida > Order Allomalorhagida incertae sedis > Family Pycnophyidae > Genus Pycnophyes

Pycnophyes aulacodes Sánchez, Pardos, Herranz & Benito, 2011

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Pycnophyes*	Zelinka, 1907	accepted genus name
*Centrophyes*	Zelinka, 1907	synonym
*Hyalophyes*	Zelinka, 1907	synonym

Literature

original description	Sánchez, N.; Pardos, F.; Herranz, M.; Benito, J. (2011). Pycnophyes dolichurus sp. nov. and P. aulacodes sp. nov. (Kinorhyncha, Homalorhagida, Pycnophyidae), two new kinorhynchs from Spain with a reevaluation of homalorhagid taxonomic characters. Helgoland Marine Research. 65: 319-334.
additional source	Neuhaus, B. (2013). 5. Kinorhyncha (= Echinodera). In: Schmidt-Rhaesa, A. (Ed.), Handbook of Zoology, Gastrotricha, Cycloneuralia and Gnathifera, Volume 1: Nematomorpha, Priapulida, Kinorhyncha, Loricifera. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin,. pp. 181-348.
ecology source	Sánchez, N.; Herranz, M.; Benito, J.; Pardos, F. (2012). Kinorhyncha from the Iberian Peninsula: new data from the first intensive sampling campaigns. Zootaxa. 3402(1): 24-44.

Genbank

Citation

Neuhaus, B. (2025). World Kinorhyncha Database. Pycnophyes aulacodes Sánchez, Pardos, Herranz & Benito, 2011. 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:731250