''Spirobranchus'' is a small genus of tube-building
annelid
The annelids (Annelida , from Latin ', "little ring"), also known as the segmented worms, are a large phylum, with over 22,000 extant species including ragworms, earthworms, and leeches. The species exist in and have adapted to various ecol ...
fanworms in the family
Serpulidae.
Species
The species in the genus
World Register of Marine Species include:
* ''
Spirobranchus giganteus''
Pallas, 1766.
Christmas-tree worm
''Spirobranchus giganteus'', commonly known as the Christmas tree worm, is a tube-building polychaete worm belonging to the family Serpulidae.
Anatomy and morphology
Both its common and Latin names refer to the two chromatically hued spiral s ...
* ''Spirobranchus corniculatus''
(Grube, 1862)
* ''Spirobranchus latiscapus''
Marenzeller, 1885
* ''Spirobranchus aloni''
Perry, Bronstein, Simon-Blecher, Atkins, Kupriyanova, ten Hove, Levy & Fine, 2018
* ''Spirobranchus americanus''
(Day, 1973)
* ''Spirobranchus arabicus''
Monro, 1937
* ''Spirobranchus baileybrockae''
Pillai. 2009
* ''
Spirobranchus cariniferus
''Spirobranchus cariniferus'', commonly known as the blue tubeworm or spiny tubeworm, or by its Māori name ''toke pā'', is a species of tube-building polychaete worm endemic to New Zealand.
This species forms patchy, belt-like colonies of hard ...
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(Gray, 1843)
* ''Spirobranchus coronatus''
Straughan, 1967
* ''Spirobranchus corrugatus''
Straughan, 1967
* ''Spirobranchus decoratus''
Imajima, 1982
* ''Spirobranchus dendropoma''
Mörch, 1863
* ''Spirobranchus eitzeni''
Augener, 1918
* ''Spirobranchus gardineri''
Pixell, 1913
* ''Spirobranchus giganteus''
(Pallas, 1766)
* ''Spirobranchus incrassatus''
KrøyerinMörch, 1863
* ''
Spirobranchus kraussii
''Spirobranchus kraussii'', the blue coral-worm, is a species of marine invertebrate in the family Serpulidae of order Sabellida. It is native to the Indian Ocean.Branch, G.M., Branch, M.L, Griffiths, C.L. and Beckley, L.E. (2010). ''Two Oceans: ...
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(Baird, 1865)
* ''Spirobranchus lamarcki''
(Quatrefages, 1866)
* ''Spirobranchus latiscapus''
(Marenzeller, 1885)
* ''Spirobranchus lima''
(Grube, 1862)
* ''Spirobranchus maldivensis''
Pixell, 1913
* ''Spirobranchus minutus''
(Rioja, 1941)
* ''Spirobranchus murrayi''
Pillai, 2009
* ''Spirobranchus nigranucha''
(Fischli, 1903)
* ''Spirobranchus paumotanus''
(Chamberlin, 1919)
* ''Spirobranchus polycerus''
(Schmarda, 1861)
* ''Spirobranchus polytrema ''
(Philippi, 1844)
* ''Spirobranchus pseudopolytremus''
Pillai, 2009
* ''Spirobranchus richardsmithi''
Pillai, 2009
* ''Spirobranchus spinosus''
Moore, 1923
* ''Spirobranchus taeniatus''
(Lamarck, 1818)
* ''Spirobranchus tenhovei''
Pillai, 2009
* ''Spirobranchus tetraceros''
(Schmarda, 1861)
* ''Spirobranchus triqueter''
(Linnaeus, 1758)
* ''Spirobranchus zelandicus''
Pillai, 2009
* ''Spirobranchus zibrowii''
Pillai, 2009
References
Bibliography
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Serpulidae
Polychaete genera
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