Golfingiidae Stephen & Edmonds 1972
- 1. División de Posgrado, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Unidad Chetumal, Quintana Roo, Mexico.
- 2. Laboratorio de Sistemática de Invertebrados Marinos (LABSIM), Universidad del Mar campus Puerto Ángel, Ciudad Universitaria, Puerto Ángel, Pochutla, Oaxaca 70902, Mexico.
Description
Family Golfingiidae
1. Branched tentacles carried on four to eight stem-like outgrowths of oral disk........ Themiste........2
– Tentacles not carried on stem-like outgrowths..............................................................................3
2. Hooks present.................................................... Themiste (Themiste) pyroides (Chamberlin, 1919)
– Hooks absent................................................................... Themiste (Themiste) hennahi Gray, 1828
3. Two nephridia........................................................................................................ Nephasoma........4
– One nephridium...............................................................................................................................5
4. Hooks present..................... Nephasoma (Nephasoma) pellucidum pellucidum (Keferstein, 1865)
– Hooks absent...................................................... Nephasoma (Nephasoma) elachea (Fisher, 1952)
5. Anus usually located on anterior trunk; epidermal holdfast or attachment papillae often present; retractor muscles highly fused but usually with 2–4 origin points................ Phascolion........6
– Anus situated on distal half of introvert; epidermal attachment papillae absent; retractor muscles appear as single column, without separate origin points......................................... Onchnesoma....7
6. Tentacles reduced to lobes at the end of the introvert, which is about equal in length to the trunk................................................................................ Phascolion (Montuga) pacificum Murina, 1957
– 10–30 well-developed tentacles usually present........................................................................................................................................................ Phascolion (Phascolion) strombus (Montagu, 1804)
7. Cylindrical body, without papillae.................................. Onchnesoma magnibathum Cutler, 1969
– Spherical or pear-shaped body, with papillae......................................................................................................................................... Onchnesoma steenstrupii steenstrupii Koren & Danielssen, 1876
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Golfingiidae
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Golfingiiformes
- Phylum
- Sipuncula
- Scientific name authorship
- Stephen & Edmonds
- Taxon rank
- family
- Taxonomic concept label
- Golfingiidae Stephen, 1972 sec. Silva-Morales & Gómez-Vásquez, 2021
References
- Gray J. E. 1828. Spicilegia Zoologica. Treuttel Wurtz & Co., London.
- Keferstein W. 1865. Beitrage zur anatomischen und systematischen Kenntniss der Sipunculiden. Zeitschrift fur wissenschaftliche Zoologie 15: 404 - 445.
- Fisher W. K. 1952. The sipunculid worms of California and Baja California. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 102 (3306): 371 - 450. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00963801.102 - 3306.371
- Murina V. V. 1957. Abyssal sipunculids (genus Phascolion Theel) of the northwestern part of the Pacific collected by Vitjaz expeditions in 1950 - 1955. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 36: 1777 - 1791.
- Montagu G. 1804. Description of several marine animals found on the south coast of Devonshire. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 7 (1): 61 - 85. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1804. tb 00282. x
- Cutler E. B. 1969. New species of Sipuncula from the western North Atlantic. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 82 (1): 209 - 218. Available from https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 34595222 [accessed 4 Mar. 2021].