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
Author
Bick, Andreas
Author
Bastrop, Ralf
text
Zootaxa
2011
2815
1
27
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.277166
c30e15b6-2583-4d25-b51f-7d4569a1b4fc
1175-5326
277166
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.