Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Echiura > Class Echiuroidea > Order Echiurida > Family Echiuridae > Subfamily Echiurinae > Genus Echiurus

Echiurus echiurus (Pallas, 1767)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Echiurus*	Guérin-Méneville, 1831	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Danish: almindelig tungeorm sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: zandworm

Literature

original description	Pallas, P.S. (1774) Spicilegia zoologica, quibus novae imprimis et obscurae animalium species iconibus, descriptionibus atque commentariis illustrantur cura P.S. Pallas. Berolini. Fasciculus 10, pp. 1-41, 4 Pl.
basis of record	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	ITIS database
additional source	Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013].
additional source	Wesenberg-Lund, E. (1933). The collections of gephyreans in the Royal Museum of Natural History of Belgium. Bull. Mus. royal d'Hist. Nat. Belg./Med. Kon. Natuurhist. Mus. Belg. 9(6): 1-16
additional source	UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms
additional source	Brunel, P., Bosse, L. & Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p.
additional source	Murina, Vantsetti. List of Echiura.
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.

Genbank

Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echiura Collection
Biodiversity Heritage Library (29 publications)
Barcode of Life
GenBank (6 nucleotides; 4 proteins)
GBIF

Citation

Murina, G. (2014). Echiurus echiurus (Pallas, 1767). In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:110377