Serpulidae

Taxobox
name = "Serpulidae"


image_width = 220px
image_caption = "Spirorbis carbonarius" (fossil)
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Annelida
classis = Polychaeta
ordo = Canalipalpata
subordo = Sabellida
familia = Serpulidae
familia_authority = Johnston, 1865
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision = see text.

Serpulidae is a family of sessile, tube-building annelid worms in the class Polychaeta. The members of this family differ from the sabellid tube worms in that they have a specialized operculum that blocks the entrance of their tubes when they withdraw into the tubes. In addition, serpulids secrete tubes of calcium carbonate and many of them bore into coral or rock before doing so.

Empty serpulid shells can sometimes be confused with the shells of a family of marine gastropod mollusks, the Vermetidae. The difference is that serpulid shells are dull inside and have only 2 shell layers, whereas the molluscan vermetid shells are shiny inside and have 3 shell layers.

Genus list

*"Amplaria" Knight-Jones, 1973
*"Anomalorbis" Vine, 1972
*"Apomatus" Philippi, 1844
*"Bushiella" Knight-Jones, 1973
*"Capeospira" Pillai, 1970
*"Chitinopoma" Levinsen, 1884
*"Circeis" Saint-Joseph, 1894
*"Crucigera" Benedict, 1887
*"Dexiospira" Caullery and Mesnil, 1897
*"Dextralia" Knight-Jones, 1973
*"Ditrupa" Berkeley, 1835
*"Eulaeospira" Pillai, 1970
*"Ficopomatus" Sauthern, 1921
*"Filograna" Oken, 1815
*"Filogranella" Ben-Eliahu and Dafni, 1979
*"Filogranula" Langerhans, 1884
*"Galeolaria" Lamarck, J.B. de (1818)
*"Hyalopotamus" Marenzeller, 1878
*"Hydroides" Gunnerus, 1768
*"Janua" Saint-Joseph, 1894
*"Josephella" Caullery and Mesnil, 1896
*"Leodora" Saint-Joseph, 1894
*"Metavermilia" Bush, 1904
*"Neodexiospira" Pillai, 1970
*"Neovermila" Day, 1961
*"Nidificaria"
*"Paradexiospira" Caullery and Mesnil, 1897
*"Paralaeospira" Caullery and Mesnil, 1897
*"Pileolaria" Claparede, 1870
*"Placostegus" Philippi, 1844
*"Pomatoceros" Philippi, 1844
*"Pomatoleios" Pixell, 1912
*"Pomatostegus" Schmarda, 1861
*"Protolaeospira" Pixell, 1912
*"Protula" Risso, 1826
*"Pseudochitinopoma" Zibrowius, 1969
*"Pseudovermilia" Bush, 1907
*"Salmacina" Claparede, 1870
*"Semivermila" Imajima, 1978
*"Serpula" Linnaeus, 1767 Type genus.
*"Simplicaria" Knight-Jones, 1973
*"Spirobranchus" Blainville, 1818 The christmas-tree worms.
*"Spirorbis" Daudin, 1800
*"Vermiliopsis Saint-Joseph, 1894
*"Vinearia"

Bibliography

*ITIS | ID = 68232 | taxon = Serpulidae | year = 2008 | date = 25 June

*cite book | last = Ruppert | first = Edward E.| coauthors = Richard S. Fox and Robert D. Barnes | title = Invertebrate Zoology: A Functional Evolutionary Approach, |edition=7th edition | publisher = Brooks/Cole - Thomson Learning Inc.|location=Belmont, CA | date = 2004 | pages = pp. 963| isbn = 0-03-025982-7

* R. Tucker Abbott, 1986. "Seashells of North America, St. Martin's Press, New York

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