Eukrohniidae
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Eukrohniidae is a family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...

 of arrow worms.

History

The species Eukrohnia hamata was identified by Mobius
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 in 1875.
The genus
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

 was named Eukrohnia by Ritter-Zahony in 1909 after August David Krohn
August David Krohn
August David Krohn was a Saint Petersburg born zoologist of German origin. He was the son of Abraham Krohn, the founder of Russia's first brewery, who had left the island of Rügen to serve in the court of Catherine the Great. He was the uncle of the fennoman folklorist Julius Krohn...

.
The whole family was named Eukrohniidae by Brusca & Brusca in 1990.

Genera

  • Genus Bathyspadella
  • Genus Eukrohnia
  • Genus Heterokrohnia
  • Genus Kukrohnia
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