Sipunculus

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{{lang|la|Sipunculus}} is a variant spelling of the Latin {{lang|la|{{linktext|siphunculus}}}} ("little tube"),{{cite web |url=https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/sipuncula |title=Sipuncula |work=Oxford Living Dictionaries |publisher=Oxford University Press |access-date=10 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190212011749/https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/sipuncula |archive-date=12 February 2019 |url-status=dead }} a diminutive of {{lang|la|sipho}} from Greek {{lang|grc|{{linktext|σίφων}}}} (síphōn, "tube, pipe").

{{lang|la|Siphunculus}} was used for fossilized worm-shaped organisms like {{lang|la|Siphunculus scaber}} by the Welsh naturalist Edward Lhuyd in 1699.{{citation |first=Edward |last=Lhuyd |author-link=Edward Lhuyd |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Oh6OmKw_oJsC |language=Latin |title=Lithophylacii Britannici Ichnographia sive Lapidum Aliorum Fossilium Britannicorum Singulari Figura Insignium, quotquot Hactenus vel Ipse Invenit vel ab Amicis Accepit Distributio Classica... |date=1699 |publisher=Clarendon Press |location=Oxford |at=[https://books.google.com/books?id=Oh6OmKw_oJsC&pg=PA59 §§ 1201 ff.] }} In the next century, the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus used the scientific name {{lang|la|Sipunculus nudus}} for a species of worms in his 1766 {{lang|la|Systema Naturae}}.{{cite WoRMS |author=Saiz-Salinas, José |year=2009 |title=Sipunculus (Sipunculus) nudus Linnaeus, 1766 |id=136084 |access-date=27 February 2019}} In 1814, the French zoologist Constantine Samuel Rafinesque used the feminine form {{lang|la|Sipuncula}} to distinguish the family including {{lang|la|S. nudus}};{{cite book|author=Rafinesque, Constantine Samuel |title=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|url=https://archive.org/details/prcisdesdcouvert00rafi |year=1814 |publisher=Royale typographie militaire, aux dépens de l'auteur|page=[https://archive.org/details/prcisdesdcouvert00rafi/page/32 32]}} this was later elevated to the {{lang|la|Sipuncula}} class, the family being renamed {{lang|la|Sipunculidae}} and the species reorganized into different genera.{{cite WoRMS |year=2018 |title=Sipuncula |id=1268 |access-date=27 February 2019}}

The genus has cosmopolitan distribution.

Species included in Sipunculus are:

• Sipunculus angasoides {{small|Chen, 1963}}
• Sipunculus clavatus {{small|de Blainville, 1827}}
• Sipunculus corallicolus {{small|Pourtalès, 1851}}
• Sipunculus echinorhynchus {{small|Chiaje, 1823}}
• Sipunculus gulfus {{small|Hylleberg, 2014}}
• Sipunculus indicus {{small|Peters, 1850}}
• Sipunculus lomonossovi {{small|Murina, 1968}}
• Sipunculus longipapillosus {{small|Murina, 1968}}
• Sipunculus macrorhynchus {{small|de Blainville, 1827}}
• Sipunculus marcusi {{small|Ditadi, 1976}}
• Sipunculus microrhynchus {{small|de Blainville, 1827}}
• Sipunculus mundanus {{small|Selenka & Bülow, 1883}}
• Sipunculus norvegicus {{small|Danielssen, 1869}}
• Sipunculus nudus {{small|Linnaeus, 1766}}
• Sipunculus phalloides {{small|(Pallas, 1774)}}
• Sipunculus polymyotus {{small|Fisher, 1947}}
• Sipunculus robustus {{small|Keferstein, 1865}}
• Sipunculus rubens {{small|Costa, 1860}}
• Sipunculus rufofimbriatus {{small|Blanchard, 1849}}
• Sipunculus saccatus {{small|Linnaeus, 1767}}
• Sipunculus thailandicus {{small|Hylleberg, 2014}}
• Sipunculus zenkevitchi {{small|Murina, 1969}}

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Category:Sipunculans