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BlackSea taxon details

Spio decorata Bobretzky, 1870

152314 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:152314)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia
  3. Annelida
  4. Polychaeta
  5. Sedentaria
  6. Canalipalpata
  7. Spionida
  8. Spioniformia
  9. Spionidae
  10. Spio
  11. Spio decorata
accepted
Species
Spio Fabricius, 1785
Paraspio decorata (Bobretzky, 1870) · unaccepted (superseded subsequent combination)
Spio decoratus Bobretzky, 1870 · unaccepted (mandatory gender agreement...)  
mandatory gender agreement requires 'decorata'
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Bobretzky, N. (1870). [Materials to the fauna of the Black Sea (Annelida Polychaeta)]. [Original] Матерiалы для фауны чернаго моря Аннелиды (Annelida, Polychaeta) / Materialy dlya fauny Chernogo morya (Annelida, Polychaeta). <em>Zapiski Kievskago obshchestva estestvoispytateleĭ [Mémoires de la Société des Naturalistes de Kiew].</em> 1: 188-274, plates 9-12.
page(s): 256; note: as 'decoratus' which is a gender-incorrect spelling and must be corrected to 'decorata' [details] OpenAccess publication
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Spio decorata Bobretzky, 1870. Accessed through: Sergeyeva, O. (2025) Black Sea checklist for Ocean-Ukraine & Sibema at: https://vliz.be/projects/ocean-ukraine/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=152314 on 2026-08-13
Sergeyeva, O. (2026). Black Sea checklist for Ocean-Ukraine & Sibema. Spio decorata Bobretzky, 1870. Accessed at: https://vliz.be/projects/ocean-ukraine/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=152314 on 2026-08-13
Date
action
by
2005-04-11 07:51:31Z
created
Claus, Simon
2008-03-26 07:46:44Z
changed
Decock, Wim
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z
changed
Fauchald, Kristian
2017-09-05 01:53:38Z
changed
Read, Geoffrey

original description Bobretzky, N. (1870). [Materials to the fauna of the Black Sea (Annelida Polychaeta)]. [Original] Матерiалы для фауны чернаго моря Аннелиды (Annelida, Polychaeta) / Materialy dlya fauny Chernogo morya (Annelida, Polychaeta). <em>Zapiski Kievskago obshchestva estestvoispytateleĭ [Mémoires de la Société des Naturalistes de Kiew].</em> 1: 188-274, plates 9-12.
page(s): 256; note: as 'decoratus' which is a gender-incorrect spelling and must be corrected to 'decorata' [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Spio decoratus Bobretzky, 1870) Bobretzky, N. (1870). [Materials to the fauna of the Black Sea (Annelida Polychaeta)]. [Original] Матерiалы для фауны чернаго моря Аннелиды (Annelida, Polychaeta) / Materialy dlya fauny Chernogo morya (Annelida, Polychaeta). <em>Zapiski Kievskago obshchestva estestvoispytateleĭ [Mémoires de la Société des Naturalistes de Kiew].</em> 1: 188-274, plates 9-12.
page(s): p. 256, & figs 74-77; note: note incorrect gender ending [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] 
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

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To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Spio decoratus Bobretzky, 1870)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Spio decorata) 
To Genbank 
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) (from synonym Spio decoratus Bobretzky, 1870)
To PESI 
To PESI (from synonym Spio decoratus Bobretzky, 1870)
To PESI (from synonym Paraspio decorata (Bobretzky, 1870))
To ITIS
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