Serpulidae
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 Spirorbis carbonarius (fossil)
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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 vermetid shells are shiny inside and have 3 shell layers.
[edit] 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
[edit] Bibliography
- Serpulidae (TSN 68232). Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved on 24 January 2007.
- Ruppert, Edward E.; Richard S. Fox and Robert D. Barnes (2004). Invertebrate Zoology: A Functional Evolutionary Approach,, 7th edition, Belmont, CA: Brooks/Cole - Thomson Learning Inc., 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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