original description
Zelinka, C. (1907). Zur Kenntnis der Echinoderen. <em>Zoologischer Anzeiger.</em> 32(5): 130-136. [details]
original description
(of Hyalophyes Zelinka, 1907) Zelinka, C. (1907). Zur Kenntnis der Echinoderen. <em>Zoologischer Anzeiger.</em> 32(5): 130-136. [details]
original description
(of Centrophyes Zelinka, 1907) Zelinka, C. (1907). Zur Kenntnis der Echinoderen. <em>Zoologischer Anzeiger.</em> 32(5): 130-136. [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]
additional source
Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. <em>Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126.</em> 405 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
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 [request]
additional source
Neuhaus, B.; Higgins, R. P.; Paavo, B. (2010). Phylum Kinorhyncha: mud dragons, New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 2 Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. pp. 468-471. [details] Available for editors [request]
identification resource
Adrianov, A. V.; Higgins, R. P. (1996). Pycnophyes parasanjuanensis, a new kinorhynch (Kinorhyncha: Homalorhagida: Pycnophyidae) from San Juan Island. <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 109 (2): 236-247., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/itempdf/107744 [details] Available for editors [request]
identification resource
Adrianov, A. V. (1995). The first description of kinorhynchs from the Spitsbergen Archipelago (Greenland Sea), with a key to the genus Pycnophyes (Homalorhagida, Kinorhyncha). <em>Canadian Journal of Zoology.</em> 73(8): 1554-1566., available online at https://doi.org/10.1139/z95-184 [details] Available for editors [request]
identification resource
Sánchez, N.; Pardos, F.; Sørensen, M. V. (2014). Deep-sea Kinorhyncha: two new species from the Guinea Basin, with evaluation of an unusual male feature. <em>Organisms Diversity & Evolution.</em> 14(4): 349-361., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s13127-014-0182-6
note: Identification key for species of Pycnophyes without ventral tubes on segment 2 in males. [details] Available for editors [request]
identification resource
Higgins, R. P. (1983). The Atlantic barrier reef ecosystem at Carrie Bow Cay, Belize, II. Kinorhyncha. <em>Smithsonian Contributions to the Marine Sciences.</em> 18: 1-131., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.01960768.18.1 [details] Available for editors [request]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Etymology The genus name was derived from Greek πυκνός pyknos, dense, sturdy, and from Greek phyo, let develop, made by nature, a common suffix of homalorhagid genera, and referred to the remotely rectanguar outline, which was opposite to the more slender, cigar-shaped habitus of Echinoderes, one of the few genera known in 19th century. [details]