Sipunculus Explained

Sipunculus is a genus of worms belonging to the family Sipunculidae.^[1]

Taxonomy

Latin: [[:wikt:sipunculus|Sipunculus]] is a variant spelling of the Latin Latin: {{linktext|siphunculus ("little tube"),^[2] a diminutive of Latin: sipho from Greek Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: {{linktext|σίφων (síphōn, "tube, pipe").

Latin: Siphunculus was used for fossilized worm-shaped organisms like Latin: Siphunculus scaber by the Welsh naturalist Edward Lhuyd in 1699. In the next century, the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus used the scientific name Latin: [[Sipunculus nudus]] for a species of worms in his 1766 Latin: [[Systema Naturae]].^[3] In 1814, the French zoologist Constantine Samuel Rafinesque used the feminine form Latin: Sipuncula to distinguish the family including Latin: S. nudus;^[4] this was later elevated to the Latin: [[Sipuncula]] class, the family being renamed Latin: [[Sipunculidae]] and the species reorganized into different genera.^[5]

Distribution

The genus has cosmopolitan distribution.

Species

Species included in Sipunculus are:

• Sipunculus angasoides
• Sipunculus clavatus
• Sipunculus corallicolus
• Sipunculus echinorhynchus
• Sipunculus gulfus
• Sipunculus indicus
• Sipunculus lomonossovi
• Sipunculus longipapillosus
• Sipunculus macrorhynchus
• Sipunculus marcusi
• Sipunculus microrhynchus
• Sipunculus mundanus
• Sipunculus norvegicus
• Sipunculus nudus
• Sipunculus phalloides
• Sipunculus polymyotus
• Sipunculus robustus
• Sipunculus rubens
• Sipunculus rufofimbriatus
• Sipunculus saccatus
• Sipunculus thailandicus
• Sipunculus zenkevitchi

Notes and References

1. 2509344. Sipunculus. 2023-12-16.
2. Web site: Sipuncula . Oxford Living Dictionaries . Oxford University Press . 10 February 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190212011749/https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/sipuncula . 12 February 2019 . dead .
3. Saiz-Salinas, José . 2009 . Sipunculus (Sipunculus) nudus Linnaeus, 1766 . 136084 . 27 February 2019.
4. Book: Rafinesque, Constantine Samuel . Précis des découvertes et travaux somiologiques de m.r C. S. Rafinesque-Schmaltz entre 1800 et 1814 ou Choix raisonné de ses principales découvertes en zoologie et en botanique. 1814 . Royale typographie militaire, aux dépens de l'auteur. 32.
5. 2018 . Sipuncula . 1268 . 27 February 2019.