# Pycnophyidae

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{{Short description|Family of small marine invertebrates}}
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| image = Cristaphyes glaurung (10.7717-peerj.5653) Figure 7 (Panel A).png
| image_upright = 0.75
| image_caption = ''Cristaphyes glaurung''
| taxon = Pycnophyidae
| authority = Zelnka, 1896<ref name=I>Zelinka, C. (1896). In Demonstrationen. ''Verhandlungen der Deutschen Zoologischen Gesellschaft auf der sechsten Jahresversammlung'', 6, 197–199.</ref>
| type_genus = ''Pycnophyes''
| type_genus_authority = Zelinka, 1907
| subdivision_ranks = Genera
| subdivision = See text.
| synonyms = *''Trachydemidae'' <small>Zelinka, 1896</small>
| synonyms_ref = <ref name="WoRMS" />
}}

'''Pycnophyidae''' is a [family](/source/Family_(taxonomy)) of [kinorhynchs](/source/Kinorhyncha) in the [class](/source/class_(biology)) [Allomalorhagida](/source/Allomalorhagida).

==Genera==
The following genera are recognised:<ref name=WoRMS>{{Cite web|title=Pycnophyidae|url=https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=101074|access-date=2021-08-24|website=WoRMS|language=en}}</ref>
*''[Cristaphyes](/source/Cristaphyes)'' <small>Sánchez, Yamasaki, Pardos, Sørensen & Martínez, 2016</small>
*''[Fujuriphyes](/source/Fujuriphyes)'' <small>Sánchez, Yamasaki, Pardos, Sørensen & Martínez, 2016</small>
*''[Higginsium](/source/Higginsium)'' <small>Sánchez, Yamasaki, Pardos, Sørensen & Martínez, 2016</small>
*''[Kinorhynchus](/source/Kinorhynchus)'' <small>Sheremetevskij, 1974</small>
*''[Krakenella](/source/Krakenella)'' <small>Sánchez, Yamasaki, Pardos, Sørensen & Martínez, 2016</small>
*''[Leiocanthus](/source/Leiocanthus)'' <small>Sánchez, Yamasaki, Pardos, Sørensen & Martínez, 2016</small>
*''[Pycnophyes](/source/Pycnophyes)'' <small>Zelinka, 1907</small>
*''[Setaphyes](/source/Setaphyes)'' <small>Sánchez, Yamasaki, Pardos, Sørensen & Martínez, 2016</small>

==References==
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Category:Kinorhyncha
Category:Ecdysozoa families

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