Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Echiura > Order Echiuroidea > Suborder Echiurida > Family Thalassematidae

Thalassema Pallas, 1774

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Thalassema arcassonense Cuénot, 1902
Thalassema elapsum Sluiter, 1912
Thalassema philostracum Fisher, 1947
Thalassema thalassema (Pallas, 1774)

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: コゲミドリユムシ属

Literature

original description	Pallas, P. S. (1774). Spicilegia zoologica, quibus novae imprimis et obscurae animalium species iconibus, descriptionibus atque commentariis illustrantur cura P.S. Pallas. [Book series, 14 volumes]. Fasciculus 10, pp. 1–41, 4 plates.
basis of record	Maiorova, A. S., Adrianov, A. V. (2019). Biodiversity of echiurans (Echiura) of the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench area. Progress in Oceanography. 180: 102216.
basis of record	Maiorova, A. S., Adrianov, A. V. (2020). A review on biogeography of the deep-sea Echiura along the NW Pacific. In: Saeedi, H., Brandt, A. (Eds.) Biogeographic Atlas of the Deep NW Pacific Fauna. Pensoft, Sofia, pp. 213–230.
additional source	Murina, Vantsetti. List of Echiura.
additional source	van der Land, J. (2001). Echiura, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 178
additional source	Popkov, D. V. (1992). A new echiuran species Thalassema malakhovi (Echiura) from New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 26(3-4): 379–383.
additional source	Nishikawa, T. (1998). Nomenclatural remarks on the family-group names of the Phylum Echiura. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 111(2): 249–256.
additional source	NODC. (1997). NODC Taxonomic codes.
additional source	Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.
additional source	Satô, H. (1939). Studies on the Echiuroidea, Sipunculoidea and Priapuloidea of Japan. Science Reports of the Tôhoku Imperial University, Fourth Series, Biology. 14 (4): 339–460, plates XIX–XXIII.
taxonomy source	Stephen, A. C., Edmonds, S. J. (1972). The Phyla Sipuncula and Echiura. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London.