Microspio Mesnil 1896
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Genus Microspio Mesnil, 1896
Microspio Mesnil, 1896; type-species: Spio mecznikowianus Claparède, 1869.
Mesospio Gravier, 1911; type-species: Mesospio moorei Gravier, 1911, by monotypy.
Diagnosis. Prostomium anteriorly rounded to deeply incised, frontal or lateral horns always absent; eyes present or absent; occipital antenna present or absent. Nuchal organ with short median and long lateral ciliary bands, extending to chaetiger 2 or 3; metameric dorsal ciliated organs present. Branchiae present from chaetiger 2, restricted to anterior region or continuing to posterior end of body; partly fused at base with notopodial postchaetal lamellae. Notochaetae and anterior neurochaetae all capillaries; capillaries, hooded hooks and inferior sabre chaetae on middle and posterior chaetigers; hooks bi-, tri-, or multidentate. Pygidium with 2–4 anal cirri.
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- Mesnil, F. (1896) Etudes de morphologie externe chez les Annelides: les Spionidiens des cotes de Manche. Bulletin Scientifique de la France et de la Belgique, 29, 110 - 287.
- Claparede, E. (1869) Les Annelides Chetopodes du Golfe de Naples. Seconde partie. Memoirs de la Societe de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Geneve, 20 (1), 1 - 225.
- Gravier, C. (1911) Sur les especes nouvelles de Polychetes provenant de la seconde expedition antarctique francaise (1908 - 1910). Bulletin du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 17, 310 - 316.