Chaetostephanidae

{{Short description|Genus of priapulid worms}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Maccabeus

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision={{Linked species list

|Maccabeus tentaculatus |Por, 1973

|Maccabeus cirratus |Malakhov, 1979

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| authority = Por, 1973

| synonyms = Chaetostephanidae = Maccabeidae{{Cite web | url = https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=101077 | title=WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Chaetostephanidae Salvini-Plawen, 1974 }}

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Maccabeus is the sole genus of seticoronarian priapulid worms.{{cite journal |last1=Por |first1=F. D. |last2=Bromley |first2=H. J. |title=Morphology and anatomy of Maccabeus tentaculatus (Priapulida: Seticoronaria) |journal=Journal of Zoology |volume=173 |issue=2 |pages=173–197 |year=1973 |doi=10.1111/j.1469-7998.1974.tb03125.x}}

It dwells inside an agglutinated tube.{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1111/j.1463-6409.1983.tb00510.x| title = Class Seticoronaria and Phylogeny of the Phylum Priapulida| year = 1983| last1 = Por| first1 = Francis D.| journal = Zoologica Scripta| volume = 12| issue = 4| pages = 267–272| s2cid = 85091685}}