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Spio Fabricius 1785

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Description

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 usually anteriorly rounded or straight; branchiae present from chaetiger 1 to near posterior end; hooded hooks on middle and posterior neuropodia; metameric dorsal ciliated organs present; pygidium with 4 anal cirri.

Description. Prostomium anteriorly rounded, truncate 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 organ with short median and long lateral ciliary bands, 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.

Notes

Published as part of Bick, Andreas, 2011, Redescription of four species of Spio and Microspio (Polychaeta, Spionidae) from the Kuril Islands and Peter the Great Bay, northwest Pacific, pp. 39-56 in Zootaxa 2968 on pages 40-41, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.202084

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Spionidae
Genus
Spio
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Spionida
Phylum
Annelida
Scientific name authorship
Fabricius
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Spio Fabricius, 1785 sec. Bick, 2011

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 (in Russian).
  • McIntosh, W. C. (1915) Monograph of the British marine annelids. Vol. III. Part I. - Text. Polychaeta, Opheliidae to Ammocharidae. Ray Society London, 1 - 366.