Themiste (worm)

Themiste
	Themiste alutacea
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Annelida
Class:	Sipuncula
Order:	Golfingiida
Family:	Themistidae; Cutler & Gibbs, 1985
Genus:	Themiste; Gray, 1828
Species
	Ten; see text

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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[WoRMS-1] "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Themiste Gray, 1828". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2018-12-06.

[Cutler-2] 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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