North Sea Benthos Project (NSBP)

WoRMS taxon details

Priapulidae Gosse, 1855

AphiaID

101078 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:101078)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Family

Parent

Priapulomorpha

Direct children (4)

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Genus Acanthopriapulus van der Land, 1970
Genus Priapulopsis Koren & Danielssen, 1875
Genus Priapulus Lamarck, 1816
Genus Priapuloides Koren & Danielssen, 1877 accepted as Priapulopsis Koren & Danielssen, 1875 (objective synonym)

Environment

marine

Original description

Gosse, P. H. (1855). A manual of marine zoology for the British Isles. Part I. John Van Voorst. London. 203 pp. 355 figs. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Paulay, G. (2025). World List of Priapulida. Priapulidae Gosse, 1855. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=101078 on 2025-03-02

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Neuhaus, Birger

2005-07-07 15:06:59Z

changed

Appeltans, Ward

2005-07-14 17:22:17Z

changed

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2009-06-10 10:38:19Z

checked

van der Land, Jacob

2018-07-04 15:02:30Z

changed

Paulay, Gustav

2018-07-06 03:40:11Z

changed

Paulay, Gustav

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description Gosse, P. H. (1855). A manual of marine zoology for the British Isles. Part I. John Van Voorst. London. 203 pp. 355 figs. [details]

basis of record Neuhaus, B.; van der Land, J. (2001). Cephalorhyncha (=Loricifera, Priapulida, Kinorhyncha, Nematomorpha), 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. 159-160 (look up in IMIS) [details]

Other

additional source Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

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Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

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Language	Name
Japanese	プリアプルス科	[details]

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To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Priapulidae)
To Genbank
To The Arctic Traits Database (0 traits)
To ITIS

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