Species Sipunculus (Sipunculus) nudus Linnaeus, 1766

Museums

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• Sipunculus nudus Linnaeus, C. 1766. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Holmiae [=Stockholm] : Laurentii Salvii, Tomus I. Regnum Animale(1) Editio duodecima, reformata [3 vols., 1766-68], 532 pp. [1078].
• Syrinx tesselatus Rafinesque-Schmaltz, C.S. 1814. 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, pour servir d'introduction à ses ouvrages futurs. Palermo : Royale Typographie Militaire 55 pp. + errata. [32].
• Sipunculus balanophorus Delle Chiaje, S. 1823. Memorie sulla storia e notomia degli animali senza vertebre del Regno di Napoli. Naples : Fratelli Fernandes Vol. 1 184 pp. [1].
• Sipunculus gigas Quatrefages, A. de 1865. Histoire naturelle des Annéles marins et d'eau douce. Paris : Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret pp. 1-794. [614].
• Sipunculus eximioclathratus Baird, W.B. 1868. Monograph of the species of worms belonging to the subclass Gephyrea. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1868: 77-114 [81].
• Sipunculus titubans Selenka, E. & Bülow, C. 1883. Die Sipunculiden. In, Selenka, E., Man, J.G. de & Bülow, C. (eds). Reisen in Archipel Philippinen van Dr. C. Semper. Leipsig : Leipsig und Wiesbaden Vol. 1 133 pp. [100].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMHB 1036, Puntarenas.
• Sipunculus delphinus Murina, V.V. 1967. Report on the sipunculid worms from the sublittoral zone of Cuba and the Mexican Gulf. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 46: 1329-1336 [1336].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Cuba.

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan, found in temperate, sub-tropical and tropical waters in all oceans — Australian distribution: Weipa and Moreton Bay, QLD.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

• Madagascar
• Senegal

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Central E coast, Gulf of Carp.

Neotropical Region

• Chile

Oriental Region

• Thailand

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, continental slope, intertidal, mud bottom–marine, sand bottom marine, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Mostly intertidal to 30 m depth, but a few records are from 100-900 m depth.

 

Notes

This most common member of the Sipunculus genus has been studied in detail by anatomists, physiologists, biochemists and ecologists.

 

General References

Cutler, E.B. 1994. The Sipuncula, their Systematics, Biology, and Evolution. New York : Cornell University Press 480 pp. [36-38]

Edmonds, S.J. 1980. A review of the systematics of Australian sipunculans (Sipuncula). Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 18: 1-74 [10-12] (Sipunculus titubans titubans Australian record)

 

History of changes

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