Themiste is a genus of peanut worms. It is the only genus in the family Themistidae.[1]
Members of this family are filter feeders, and have their feeding tentacles arranged in an elaborate crown-like structure. This is in contrast to other sipunculans which are deposit feeders.[2]
Species
The genus contains the following species:[1]
- Themiste alutacea (Grube & Ørsted, 1858)
- Themiste blanda (Selenka and de Man, 1883)
- Themiste cymodoceae (Edmonds, 1956)
- Themiste dehamata (Kesteven, 1903)
- Themiste dyscrita (Fisher, 1952)
- Themiste hennahi (Gray, 1828)
- Themiste lageniformis (Baird, 1868)
- Themiste minor (Ikeda, 1904)
- Themiste pyroides (Chamberlain, 1920)
- Themiste variospinosa (Edmonds, 1980)
References
- ^ a b "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Themiste Gray, 1828". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2018-12-06.
- ^ Cutler, Edward Bayler (1994). The Sipuncula: Their Systematics, Biology, and Evolution. Cornell University Press. p. 5. ISBN 0-8014-2843-2.
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