Spio Fabricius 1785 ...

• Main Authors: Bick, Andreas, Bastrop, Ralf
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2011
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Annelida; Polychaeta; Spionida; Spionidae; Spio; Greenland; North East Atlantic; Paamiut
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5697050; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5697050

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 ... : Published as part of Bick, Andreas & Bastrop, Ralf, 2011, On the identity of Spio filicornis (O. F. Müller, 1776) — with the designation of a neotype, and the description of two new species from the North East Atlantic Ocean based on morphological and genetic studies, pp. 1-27 in Zootaxa 2815 on page 6, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.277166 ...