{{Short description|Family of priapulid worms}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = {{Fossil range|Recent| earliest=Late Pennsylvanian|PS=(Stem-group from the Carboniferous)}} | image = Priapulus caudatus FZ.png | image_upright = 0.6 | image_caption =''Priapulus caudatus'' | taxon = Priapulidae | authority = Gosse, 1855 | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = {{Linked species list | Priapulus | Lamarck 1816 (type) | Priapulites | {{extinct}} Schram, 1973 | Priapulopsis | Koren & Danielssen, 1875 | }} }}
'''Priapulidae''' is the canonical family of priapulid worms, comprising ''Priapulus'' and ''Priapulosis'' as well as the Carboniferous genus ''Priapulites''.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Budd |first1=G. E. |last2=Jensen |first2=S. |year=2000 |title=A critical reappraisal of the fossil record of the bilaterian phyla |volume=75 |issue=2 |pages=253–95 |journal=Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society |doi=10.1111/j.1469-185X.1999.tb00046.x |pmid=10881389|s2cid=39772232 }}</ref>
==Systematics==
Classification and maximum trunk length:<ref>{{cite journal | url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0044523122000195 | doi=10.1016/j.jcz.2022.03.001 | bibcode=2022ZooAn.298....1S | title=New record and first description including SEM and μCT of the rare priapulid Acanthopriapulus horridus (Priapulida, Scalidophora) | last1=Schmidt-Rhaesa | first1=Andreas | last2=Cañete | first2=Juan I. | last3=Mutschke | first3=Erika | journal=Zoologischer Anzeiger | date=2022 | volume=298 | page=1 | url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0044523122001036 | doi=10.1016/j.jcz.2022.11.006 | bibcode=2023ZooAn.302....1S | title=Morphology of larval and postlarval stages of Priapulopsis bicaudatus (Danielssen, 1869) (Priapulida) from the north atlantic ocean | last1=Schmidt-Rhaesa | first1=Andreas | last2=Raeker | first2=Jan | journal=Zoologischer Anzeiger | date=2023 | volume=302 | page=1 | url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NBP4bvxp1loC&dq=Priapulus+tuberculatospinosus&pg=PA166 | title=Handbook of Zoology | isbn=978-3-11-027253-6 | last1=Schmidt-Rhaesa | first1=Andreas | date=21 December 2012 | publisher=Walter de Gruyter }}</ref>
*Family Priapulidae **Genus ''Acanthopriapulus'' ***Species ''A. horridus'' (24.5 mm) **Genus ''Priapulopsis'' ***Species ''P. australis'' (50 mm) ***Species ''P. bicaudatus'' (100 mm) ***Species ''P. cnidephorus'' (only known from a postlarval specimen) **Genus Priapulus ***Species ''P. abyssorum'' (30 mm) ***Species ''P. caudatus'' (200 mm) ***Species ''P. tuberculatospinosus'' (200 mm)
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