Tubiluchidae

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Tubiluchidae
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Priapulida
Class: Priapulimorpha
Order: Priapulimorphida
Family: Tubiluchidae
Genera
  • Meiopriapulus
  • Tubiluchus
  • †Paratubiluchus

Tubiluchidae is one of the two families of priapulimorphidan priapulid worms.

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Anatomy

The Polythyridium is a gut component. [1] Members of the group also have a neck region both as larvae and as adults. [2]

Taxa

The family includes only the genus Tubiluchus van der Land 1968, and in some classifications Meiopriapulus . [3] A full list of the included species:

References

  1. ↑ J. van der Land (1970). "Systematics, zoogeography, and ecology of the Priapulida". Zoologische Verhandelingen. 112 (1): 1–118. ISSN   0024-1652.
  2. ↑ Raeker, Jan; Lord, Arianna; Herranz, María; Giribet, Gonzalo; Worsaae, Katrine; Schmidt-Rhaesa, Andreas (2025). "The big, the small and the weird: A phylogenomic analysis of extant Priapulida". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 204 108297. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2025.108297. PMID   39884518.
  3. ↑ Zimmermann, Daniel (2015-01-07). Notes on a Few Minor Phyla. ISBN   978-1-312-81660-2.
  4. 1 2 Schmidt-Rhaesa, Andreas; Panpeng, Supak; Yamasaki, Hiroshi (2017). "Two new species of Tubiluchus (Priapulida) from Japan". Zoologischer Anzeiger. 267: 155–167. doi:10.1016/j.jcz.2017.03.004.


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