original description
Malmgren, A.J. (1867). Annulata Polychaeta Spetsbergiæ, Grœnlandiæ, Islandiæ et Scandinaviæ. Hactenus Cognita. Ex Officina Frenckelliana, Helsingforslæ. 127 pp. & XIV plates., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/13358
page(s): 93 [details]
original description
(of Minuspio Foster, 1971) Foster, Nancy Marie. (1971). Spionidae (Polychaeta) of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. <em>Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands.</em> 36(129): 1-183., available online at http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/506046
page(s): 106-107 [details] Available for editors 
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original description
(of Anaspio Chamberlin, 1920) Chamberlin, Ralph V. (1920). The polychaetes collected by the Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-18. <em>Report of the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913-18.</em> 9B: 1-41, plates 1-6., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37673125
page(s): 18 [details] 
original description
(of Aquilaspio Foster, 1971) Foster, Nancy Marie. (1971). Spionidae (Polychaeta) of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. <em>Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands.</em> 36(129): 1-183., available online at http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/506046
page(s): 105 [details] Available for editors [request]
original description
(of Periptyches Grube, 1873) Grube, Adolf-Eduard. (1873). Über ein paar neue Anneliden aus der Familie der Spiodeen. <em>Jahres-Bericht der Schlesichen Gesellschaft für vaterländische Cultur.</em> 50: 57-58., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38491131 [details]
original description
(of Kinbergella McIntosh, 1909) McIntosh, W.C. 1909. Notes from the Gatty Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews. No. 31. 1. On a young stage of Gadus luscus with bold transverse bars of pigment. 2. On the british Spionidae. 3. On the Spionidae dredged by H.M.S. 'Porcupine' in 1869 and 1870. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3: 153-180. [details]
taxonomy source
Paterson, Gordon L. J.; Neal, Lenka; Altamira, Iris; Soto, Eulogio H.; Smith, Craig R.; Menot, Lenaick; Billett, David S. M.; Cunha, Marina R.; Marchais-Laguionie, Clare; Glover, Adrian G. (2016). New <em>Prionospio</em> and <em>Aurospio</em> Species from the Deep Sea (Annelida: Polychaeta). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4092(1): 1-32., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4092.1.1 [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record
Bellan, G. (2001). Polychaeta, <i>in</i>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. <em>Collection Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 214-231. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source
Day, J. H. (1967). [Sedentaria] A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 2. Sedentaria. British Museum (Natural History), London. pp. 459–842., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/8596 [details]
additional source
Peixoto, Antônio João Malafaia; Paiva, Paulo Cesar de. (2019). New <i>Prionospio</i> and <i>Laubieriellus</i> (Annelida: Spionidae) species from Southeastern Brazil. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4577(3): 529-547., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4577.3.7
page(s): 531-532; note: Emendation (re-diagnosis of genus): Genus diagnosis emended to include "Branchiae from chaetiger 2, chaetiger 3 or rarely absent. Branchiae limited to anterior chaetigers, 0-15 pairs [...]." [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Sigvaldadóttir, E. (1998). Cladistic analysis and classification of <i>Prionospio</i> and related general (Polychaeta, Spionidae). <em>Zoologica Scripta.</em> 27(3): 175-187., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1463-6409.1998.tb00435.x [details]
additional source
Glasby, Christopher J.; Read, Geoffrey B.; Lee, Kenneth E.; Blakemore, R.J.; Fraser, P.M.; Pinder, A.M.; Erséus, C.; Moser, W.E.; Burreson, E.M.; Govedich, F.R.; Davies, R.W.; Dawson, E.W. (2009). Phylum Annelida: bristleworms, earthworms, leeches. <em>[Book chapter].</em> Chapt 17, pp. 312-358. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Fauchald, K. (1977). The polychaete worms, definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. <em>Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA), Science Series.</em> 28:1-188., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/123110.pdf [details]
identification resource
Delgado-Blas, V. H. 2014. Redescriptions and reestablishments of some species belonging to the genus Prionospio (Polychaeta, Spionidae) and descriptions of three new species. Helgoland Marine Research 68(1): 113-132, available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s10152-013-0372-1
page(s): [Key to known species of Prionospio with five pairs of branchiae] [details]
identification resource
Delgado-Blas, Víctor Hugo. (2015). <em>Prionospio</em> (Polychaeta, Spionidae) from the Grand Caribbean Region, with the descriptions of five new species and a key to species recorded in the area. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3905(1): 69-90., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3905.1.4
note: Caribbean species key [details]
identification resource
Martínez, Julián; Adarraga, Idoia. (2019). Una nueva especie del género <em>Prionospio</em> Malmgren, 1867 (Annelida, Spionidae) procedente del sureste del Golfo de Vizcaya. <em>Graellsia.</em> 75(2): e099., available online at https://doi.org/10.3989/graellsia.2019.v75.244
note: includes key for all known species with only apinnate branchiae from chaetiger 2 [details] Available for editors [request]
identification resource
Delgado-Blas, Victor Hugo; Peraza, Russell Giovanni Uc. (2024). Two new species of Prionospio (Annelida: Spionidae) from the Northwest and Northeast Atlantic. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5432(1): 69-82., available online at https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5432.1.5
page(s): 79; note: worldwide key to the six Prionospio species of similar morphology to Prionospio dubia [details] Available for editors [request]
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Diagnosis Original diagnosis by Malmgren (1867: 93): ''Corpus elongatum sublineare postice sensim paullum attenuatam. Lobus cephalicus brevis parte frontale parum elevata subrectangulare apice transversa. Antennae nullae. Tentaculum haud conspicuum. Oculi nulli. Tubercula setigera similia pinnis compressis parum discretis, labiis minutis, magnis foliaceis modo in segmentis 4 anticis obviis. Branchiae, paria 4, liberae in segmentis 4 anticis obviae, dorso adnatae, paris primi et quarti aequales ceteris longiores pinnatae, paris secundi et tertii multo breviores aequales filiformes. Setae in segmentis anticis modo capillares in utraque pinna, in posticis segmentis capillares et uncinatae in pinna ventrali, modo capillares in dorsali. Setae capillares versus apicem attenuatum curvatum anguste limbatae in segmentis anticis, in posticis rectae tenuissime attenuatae haud limbatae. Uncini rostrati apice limbati, vertice unidentati. Seta infima rami inferioris in segmentis mediis linearis falcis instar curvata.''
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Etymology Prionospio is composed by the Greek noun prion, meaning 'saw', followed by the name of the genus Spio Fabricius, 1785, type of the family Spionidae, and refers presumably to the saw-like appearance in profile of the pinnate branchiae of the genotype, Prionospio steenstrupi Malmgren, 1867 (see Malmgren, 1867: plate IX fig. 55B). [details]
Grammatical gender Feminine. Names ending in Spio, named after a female mythological entity, must be feminine, and Prionospio species-group names when adjectival have almost invariably been treated as feminine. There are three original name exceptions, and they have all been corrected in later publications. [details]Unreviewed
Habitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
Type species Type species P. steenstrupi Malmgren 1867 in Fauchald, 1977<246>. [details]
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