Sipuncula Sipuncula

Sipuncula - Definition and Overview

Peanut worms
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Subkingdom:Metazoa
Phylum:Sipuncula


The Sipuncula, sipunculid worms or peanut worms, are a phylum of marine worms with a tentacle surrounded mouth on a completely invertible head end. Some of the larval characteristics are similar to the mollusks.

Sipunculid worm jelly (土笋冻) is a delicacy in the town of Xiamen in Fujian province of China.

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