''Themiste'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
peanut worm
The Sipuncula or Sipunculida (common names sipunculid worms or peanut worms) is a class containing about 162 species of marine annelid worms, that have secondarily lost their segmentation. Sipuncula was once considered a phylum of unsegmented ...
s. It is the
only genus in the family Themistidae.
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.
Species
The genus contains the following species:
[
* '' Themiste alutacea'' (]Grube
Grube is a municipality in the district of Ostholstein, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is situated near the Baltic Sea coast, approx. 15 km south of Heiligenhafen, and 45 km northeast of Lübeck
Lübeck (; or ; Latin: ), of ...
& 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
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Sipunculans
Lophotrochozoa genera
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