WoRMS taxon details
Pycnophyidae Zelinka, 1896
101074 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:101074)
accepted
Family
Pycnophyes Zelinka, 1907 (type by monotypy)
Trachydemidae Zelinka, 1896 · unaccepted (new combination)
- Genus Cristaphyes Sánchez, Yamasaki, Pardos, Sørensen & Martínez, 2016
- Genus Fujuriphyes Sánchez, Yamasaki, Pardos, Sørensen & Martínez, 2016
- Genus Higginsium Sánchez, Yamasaki, Pardos, Sørensen & Martínez, 2016
- Genus Kinorhynchus Sheremetevskij, 1974
- Genus Krakenella Sánchez, Yamasaki, Pardos, Sørensen & Martínez, 2016
- Genus Leiocanthus Sánchez, Yamasaki, Pardos, Sørensen & Martínez, 2016
- Genus Pycnophyes Zelinka, 1907
- Genus Setaphyes Sánchez, Yamasaki, Pardos, Sørensen & Martínez, 2016
- Genus Centrophyes Zelinka, 1907 accepted as Pycnophyes Zelinka, 1907 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym, juvenile stage of Pycnophyidae)
- Genus Hyalophyes Zelinka, 1907 accepted as Pycnophyes Zelinka, 1907 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym, juvenile stage of Pycnophyidae)
marine
Zelinka, C. (1896). Demonstration der Tafeln der Echinoderes-Monographie. <em>Verhandlungen der Deutschen Zoologischen Gesellschaft.</em> 6: 197-199., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29678972 [details] 
Neuhaus, B. (2025). World Kinorhyncha Database. Pycnophyidae Zelinka, 1896. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=101074 on 2025-04-03
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original description
Zelinka, C. (1896). Demonstration der Tafeln der Echinoderes-Monographie. <em>Verhandlungen der Deutschen Zoologischen Gesellschaft.</em> 6: 197-199., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29678972 [details]
original description (of Trachydemidae Zelinka, 1896) Zelinka, C. (1896). Demonstration der Tafeln der Echinoderes-Monographie. <em>Verhandlungen der Deutschen Zoologischen Gesellschaft.</em> 6: 197-199., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29678972 [details]
basis of record Neuhaus, B.; van der Land, J. (2001). Cephalorhyncha (=Loricifera, Priapulida, Kinorhyncha, Nematomorpha), <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 159-160 (look up in IMIS) [details]
original description (of Trachydemidae Zelinka, 1896) Zelinka, C. (1896). Demonstration der Tafeln der Echinoderes-Monographie. <em>Verhandlungen der Deutschen Zoologischen Gesellschaft.</em> 6: 197-199., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29678972 [details]
basis of record Neuhaus, B.; van der Land, J. (2001). Cephalorhyncha (=Loricifera, Priapulida, Kinorhyncha, Nematomorpha), <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 159-160 (look up in IMIS) [details]
Other
additional source
Howson, C.M. & B.E. Picton. (1997). The species directory of the marine fauna and flora of the British Isles and surrounding seas. <em>Ulster Museum Publication, 276. The Ulster Museum: Belfast, UK. ISBN 0-948150-06-8.</em> vi, 508 (+ cd-rom) pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors 
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additional source Sánchez, N.; Yamasaki, H.; Pardos, F.; Sørensen, M. V.; Martínez, A. (2016). Morphology disentangles the systematics of a ubiquitous but elusive meiofaunal group (Kinorhyncha: Pycnophyidae). <em>Cladistics.</em> 32(5): 479-505., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/cla.12143 [details] Available for editors [request]
biology source Cepeda, D.; Álamo, D.; Sánchez, N.; Pardos, F. (2019). Allometric growth in meiofaunal invertebrates: do all kinorhynchs show homogeneous trends?. <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 187(4): 1041-1060., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz083
note: The study "explores evolutionary interspecific allometric trends between the total trunk length and the lengths of the segments and spines in the phylum Kinorhyncha at three taxonomic levels: the whol...
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biology source Cepeda, D.; Trigo, D.; Pardos, F.; Sánchez, N. (2020). Does sediment composition sort kinorhynch communities? An ecomorphological approach through geometric morphometrics. <em>Scientific Reports.</em> 10, 2603: 1-12., available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-59511-4
note: To better understand whether the shape of the body and the appendages involved in the movement is correlated to sediment composition in meiofaunal organisms, the evolved morphological adaptations to e...
[details] Available for editors [request]
biology source Dovgal, I; Chatterjee, T.; Ingole, B.; Nanajkar, M. (2008). First report of Limnoricus ponticus Dovgal & Lozowskiy (Ciliophora: Suctorea) as epibionts on Pycnophyes (Kinorhyncha) from the Indian Ocean with key to species of the genus Limnoricus. <em>Cahiers de Biologie Marine.</em> 49: 381-385., available online at http://application.sb-roscoff.fr/cbm/article.htm?execution=e4s1&_eventId=downloadpdf&articleId=26352 [details] Available for editors [request]
[request]additional source Sánchez, N.; Yamasaki, H.; Pardos, F.; Sørensen, M. V.; Martínez, A. (2016). Morphology disentangles the systematics of a ubiquitous but elusive meiofaunal group (Kinorhyncha: Pycnophyidae). <em>Cladistics.</em> 32(5): 479-505., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/cla.12143 [details] Available for editors
[request]biology source Cepeda, D.; Álamo, D.; Sánchez, N.; Pardos, F. (2019). Allometric growth in meiofaunal invertebrates: do all kinorhynchs show homogeneous trends?. <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 187(4): 1041-1060., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz083
note: The study "explores evolutionary interspecific allometric trends between the total trunk length and the lengths of the segments and spines in the phylum Kinorhyncha at three taxonomic levels: the whol...
The study "explores evolutionary interspecific allometric trends between the total trunk length and the lengths of the segments and spines in the phylum Kinorhyncha at three taxonomic levels: the whole phylum, the class and the family."
[request]biology source Cepeda, D.; Trigo, D.; Pardos, F.; Sánchez, N. (2020). Does sediment composition sort kinorhynch communities? An ecomorphological approach through geometric morphometrics. <em>Scientific Reports.</em> 10, 2603: 1-12., available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-59511-4
note: To better understand whether the shape of the body and the appendages involved in the movement is correlated to sediment composition in meiofaunal organisms, the evolved morphological adaptations to e...
To better understand whether the shape of the body and the appendages involved in the movement is correlated to sediment composition in meiofaunal organisms, the evolved morphological adaptations to environment in selected taxa of the phylum Kinorhyncha is studed (Dracoderidae, Pycnophyidae, Echinoderes).
[request]biology source Dovgal, I; Chatterjee, T.; Ingole, B.; Nanajkar, M. (2008). First report of Limnoricus ponticus Dovgal & Lozowskiy (Ciliophora: Suctorea) as epibionts on Pycnophyes (Kinorhyncha) from the Indian Ocean with key to species of the genus Limnoricus. <em>Cahiers de Biologie Marine.</em> 49: 381-385., available online at http://application.sb-roscoff.fr/cbm/article.htm?execution=e4s1&_eventId=downloadpdf&articleId=26352 [details] Available for editors
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