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Issue: Vol. 1431 No. 1: 26 Mar. 2007
Type: Articles
Published: 2007-03-26
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1431.1.2
Page range: 45–54
Abstract views: 31
PDF downloaded: 1

Sipunculans of the Caribbean coast of Venezuela and Curaçao

Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, USA.
Departamento de Investigaciones, Museo Marino de Margarita, and Laboratorio de Zoología, Escuela de Ciencias Aplicadas del Mar, Universidad de Oriente, Margarita Island, Venezuela.
Sipuncula faunal list Caribbean

Abstract

All sipunculan species currently known to occur on the Caribbean coast of Venezuela and Curaçao are reviewed. Included are species previously reported in the primary literature and those collected by Cutler (EBC) in 1987/1988 and Hernández-Ávila (IHA) in 2003/2004. Nineteen species of sipunculans belonging to eleven genera are known from this region. Most specious is the genus Aspidosiphon with seven species and the genus Phascolosoma with three species.

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