| Sipunculus | |
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| Sipunculus nudus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Annelida |
| Class: | Sipuncula |
| Order: | Golfingiida |
| Family: | Sipunculidae |
| Genus: | Sipunculus Linnaeus, 1766 |
| Synonyms [1] | |
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Sipunculus is a genus of worms belonging to the family Sipunculidae. [1]
Sipunculus is a variant spelling of the Latin siphunculus ("little tube"), [2] a diminutive of sipho from Greek σίφων (síphōn, "tube, pipe").
Siphunculus was used for fossilized worm-shaped organisms like Siphunculus scaber by the Welsh naturalist Edward Lhuyd in 1699. [3] In the next century, the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus used the scientific name Sipunculus nudus for a species of worms in his 1766 Systema Naturae . [4] In 1814, the French zoologist Constantine Samuel Rafinesque used the feminine form Sipuncula to distinguish the family including S. nudus; [5] this was later elevated to the Sipuncula class, the family being renamed Sipunculidae and the species reorganized into different genera. [6]
The genus has cosmopolitan distribution. [1]
Species included in Sipunculus are: [1]
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Edward Lhuyd, also known as Edward Lhwyd and by other spellings, was a Welsh naturalist, botanist, herbalist, alchemist, scientist, linguist, geographer, and antiquary. He was the second keeper of Oxford University's Ashmolean Museum and published the first catalogue of fossils, the Lithophylacii Britannici Ichnographia.
Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz was a French 19th-century polymath born near Constantinople in the Ottoman Empire and self-educated in France. He traveled as a young man in the United States, ultimately settling in Ohio in 1815, where he made notable contributions to botany, zoology, and the study of prehistoric earthworks in North America. He also contributed to the study of ancient Mesoamerican linguistics, in addition to work he had already completed in Europe.
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