Spirobranchus

Spirobranchus
Spirobranchus giganteus , a popular species in the genus.
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Annelida
Clade:	Pleistoannelida
Clade:	Sedentaria
Order:	Sabellida
Family:	Serpulidae
Subfamily:	Serpulinae
Genus:	Spirobranchus Blainville, 1818
Species
See text
Synonyms
PomatocerosPhilippi, 1844

Spirobranchus is a small genus of tube-building annelid fanworms in the family Serpulidae.

Species

The species in the genus (World Register of Marine Species) include:

• Spirobranchus aloni Perry, Bronstein, Simon-Blecher, Atkins, Kupriyanova, ten Hove, Levy & Fine, 2018
• Spirobranchus corniculatus (Grube, 1862)
• Spirobranchus latiscapus Marenzeller, 1885
• Spirobranchus americanus (Day, 1973)
• Spirobranchus arabicus Monro, 1937
• Spirobranchus baileybrockae Pillai. 2009
• Spirobranchus cariniferus (Gray, 1843)
• Spirobranchus coronatus Straughan, 1967
• Spirobranchus corrugatus Straughan, 1967
• Spirobranchus decoratus Imajima, 1982
• Spirobranchus dendropoma Mörch, 1863
• Spirobranchus eitzeni Augener, 1918
• Spirobranchus gardineri Pixell, 1913
• Spirobranchus giganteus (Pallas, 1766)
• Spirobranchus incrassatus Krøyer in Mörch, 1863
• Spirobranchus kraussii (Baird, 1865)
• Spirobranchus lamarcki (Quatrefages, 1866)
• Spirobranchus latiscapus (Marenzeller, 1885)
• Spirobranchus lima (Grube, 1862)
• Spirobranchus maldivensis Pixell, 1913
• Spirobranchus minutus (Rioja, 1941)
• Spirobranchus murrayi Pillai, 2009
• Spirobranchus nigranucha (Fischli, 1903)
• Spirobranchus paumotanus (Chamberlin, 1919)
• Spirobranchus polycerus (Schmarda, 1861)
• Spirobranchus polytrema (Philippi, 1844)
• Spirobranchus pseudopolytremus Pillai, 2009
• Spirobranchus richardsmithi Pillai, 2009
• Spirobranchus spinosus Moore, 1923
• Spirobranchus taeniatus (Lamarck, 1818)
• Spirobranchus tenhovei Pillai, 2009
• Spirobranchus tetraceros (Schmarda, 1861)
• Spirobranchus triqueter (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Spirobranchus zelandicus Pillai, 2009
• Spirobranchus zibrowii Pillai, 2009

Bibliography

• Ruppert, Edward E.; Richard S. Fox; Robert D. Barnes (2004). Invertebrate Zoology: A Functional Evolutionary Approach (7th ed.). Belmont, CA: Brooks/Cole - Thomson Learning Inc. pp.  963. ISBN   0-03-025982-7.