Serpulidae

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Serpulidae

Spirorbis carbonarius (fossil)

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Annelida
Class:	Polychaeta
Order:	Canalipalpata
Suborder:	Sabellida
Family:	Serpulidae Johnston, 1865

Genera

see text.

Pecten sp. with serpulid worm encrusters; Duck Harbor Beach on Cape Cod Bay, Wellfleet, Massachusetts.

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.