Spio Fabricius 1785
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Genus Spio Fabricius, 1785
Type species: Nereis filicornis Müller, 1776
Type locality: Iluilârssuk, near Frederikshaab (Paamiut), West Greenland
Synonym: Paraspio Czerniavsky, 1881; type species: Spio decoratus Bobretzky, 1870, by monotypy. Euspio McIntosh, 1915; type species: Euspio mesnili McIntosh, 1915.
Diagnosis. Prostomium anteriorly rounded or slightly incised; branchiae present from chaetiger 1, to near posterior end; hooded hooks on middle and posterior neuropodia; metameric dorsal ciliated organs present; pygidium with four anal cirri.
Description. Prostomium anteriorly rounded or slightly incised, lacking frontal or lateral horns; eyes present or absent; digitiform occipital antenna absent, but posterior portion of prostomium may be raised or inflated. Nuchal organs with ciliated bands of different shapes and lengths posterolateral and posterior to prostomium, extending to chaetiger 2 or 3. Metameric dorsal ciliated organs present. Branchiae present from chaetiger 1, continuing almost throughout body, completely separate from or basally fused with notopodial lamella, often reduced in size on chaetiger 1. Notochaetae and anterior neurochaetae all capillaries; capillaries, hooded hooks and inferior sabre chaetae on middle and posterior chaetigers. Pygidium with 4 anal cirri.
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- Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.277166 (DOI)
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References
- Fabricius, O. (1785) Von dem Spio - Geschlecht einem neuen Wurmgeschlecht Nereis seticornis und Nereis filicornis. Sitzungsbericht der Gesellschaft der naturforschenden Freunde zu Berlin, 6, 256 - 270.
- Muller, O. F. (1776) Zoologicae Danicae Prodromus, seu Animalium Daniae et Norvegiae indigenarum characteres, nomina et synonyma imprimis popularium. Hallageriis. Havniae [Copenhagen], i-xxxii, 1 - 282.
- Czerniavsky, V. (1881) Material ad zoographiam Ponticam. Fasc. III Vermes. Bulletin de la Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou, 55, 211 - 363.
- Bobretzky, N. V. (1870) Materialy dlja fauny Tschernovo Morya. Annelidy (Annelida, Polychaeta). Zapisy Kievskovo obshestva estestroispytatelej, 1, 188 - 274.
- McIntosh, W. C. (1915) Monograph of the British marine annelids. Vol. III. Part I. - Text. Polychaeta, Opheliidae to Ammocharidae. Ray Society London, 1 - 366.