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Frontiers in Zoology BioMed Central Short report Open Access The hatching larva of the priapulid worm Halicryptus spinulosus Ralf Janssen*, Sofia A Wennberg and Graham E Budd Address: Uppsala University, Department of Earth Sciences, Palaeobiology, Villavägen 16, 75236 Uppsala, Sweden Email: Ralf Janssen* - ralf.janssen@geo.uu.se; Sofia A Wennberg - sofia.wennberg@geo.uu.se; Graham E Budd - graham.budd@pal.uu.se * Corresponding author Published: 26 May 2009 Received: 28 February 2009 Accepted: 26 May 2009 Frontiers in Zoology 2009, 6:8 doi:10.1186/1742-9994-6-8 This article is available from: /content/6/1/8 © 2009 Janssen et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Despite their increasing evolutionary importance, basic knowledge about the priapulid worms remains limited. In particular, priapulid development has only been partially documented. Following previous description of hatching and the earliest larval stages of Priapulus caudatus, we here describe the hatching larva of Halicryptus spinulosus. Comparison of the P. caudatus and the H. spinulosus hatching larvae allows us to attempt to reconstruct the ground pattern of priapulid development. These findings may further help unravelling the phylogenetic position