{{Short description|Genus of worms}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Themiste petricola, everted.jpg | image_caption = ''Themiste alutacea '' | parent_authority = Cutler & Gibbs, 1985 | taxon = Themiste | authority = Gray, 1828 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = Ten; see text }}
'''''Themiste''''' is a genus of peanut worms. It is the only genus in the family '''Themistidae'''.<ref name=WoRMS>{{Cite web|url=http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=264942|title=WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Themiste Gray, 1828|website=www.marinespecies.org|access-date=2018-12-06}}</ref>
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.<ref name=Cutler>{{cite book|author=Cutler, Edward Bayler |title=The Sipuncula: Their Systematics, Biology, and Evolution|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CIuxgRI-28kC&pg=PA5 |year=1994 |publisher=Cornell University Press|isbn=0-8014-2843-2 |page=5}}</ref>
== Species == The genus contains the following species:<ref name=WoRMS/> * ''Themiste alutacea'' <small>(Grube & Ørsted, 1858)</small> * ''Themiste blanda'' <small>(Selenka and de Man, 1883)</small> * ''Themiste cymodoceae'' <small>(Edmonds, 1956)</small> * ''Themiste dehamata'' <small>(Kesteven, 1903)</small> * ''Themiste dyscrita'' <small>(Fisher, 1952)</small> * ''Themiste hennahi'' <small>(Gray, 1828)</small> * ''Themiste lageniformis'' <small>(Baird, 1868)</small> * ''Themiste minor'' <small>(Ikeda, 1904)</small> * ''Themiste pyroides'' <small>(Chamberlain, 1920)</small> * ''Themiste variospinosa'' <small>(Edmonds, 1980)</small>
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Category:Sipuncula Category:Lophotrochozoa genera
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