Priapulidae is the canonical family of priapulid worms, comprising Priapulus and Priapulosis as well as the Carboniferous genus Priapulites.[1]
| Priapulidae Temporal range:
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| Priapulus caudatus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Priapulida |
| Class: | Priapulimorpha |
| Order: | Priapulimorphida |
| Family: | Priapulidae Gosse, 1855 |
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Systematics edit
Classification and maximum trunk length:[2][3][4]
- Family Priapulidae
- Genus Acanthopriapulus
- Species A. horridus (24.5 mm)
- Genus Priapulopsis
- Species P. australis (50 mm)
- Species P. bicaudatus (100 mm)
- Species P. cnidephorus (only known from a postlarval specimen)
- Genus Priapulus
- Species P. abyssorum (30 mm)
- Species P. caudatus (200 mm)
- Species P. tuberculatospinosus (200 mm)
- Genus Acanthopriapulus
References edit
- ^ Budd, G. E.; Jensen, S. (2000). "A critical reappraisal of the fossil record of the bilaterian phyla". Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 75 (2): 253–95. doi:10.1111/j.1469-185X.1999.tb00046.x. PMID 10881389. S2CID 39772232.
- ^ New record and first description including SEM and μCT of the rare priapulid Acanthopriapulus horridus (Priapulida, Scalidophora)
- ^ Morphology of larval and postlarval stages of Priapulopsis bicaudatus (Danielssen, 1869) (Priapulida) from the north atlantic ocean
- ^ Handbook of Zoology
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