SERPULIDAE

'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.

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Genus list

Bibliography

References

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

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★ Invertebrate Zoology: A Functional Evolutionary Approach,, , Edward E., Ruppert, Brooks/Cole - Thomson Learning Inc., ,

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