original description
Malmgren, Anders Johan. (1866? vol for 1865). Nordiska Hafs-Annulater. [part three of three]. <em>Öfversigt af Königlich Vetenskapsakademiens förhandlingar, Stockholm.</em> 22(5): 355-410, plates XVIII-XXIX., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32339631
page(s): 384; note: A long Latin diagnosis is given [details]
original description
(of Melinella McIntosh, 1914) McIntosh, W. C. L.; St, A. N. (1914). Notes from the Gatty Marine On the ventral furrows of the lesser rorqual (Balaenoptera acutorostrata, Lacépède). 2. On some of the species of Prionospio, Malmgren. 3. On the british Amphictenidae. 4. On the british Ampharetidae. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> 13: 77-110., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51229570
page(s): 109 [details]
original description
(of Scione Malmgren, 1866) Malmgren, Anders Johan. (1866? vol for 1865). Nordiska Hafs-Annulater. [part three of three]. <em>Öfversigt af Königlich Vetenskapsakademiens förhandlingar, Stockholm.</em> 22(5): 355-410, plates XVIII-XXIX., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32339631
page(s): 383; note: new genus for new species Scione lobata [details]
original description
(of Euscione Chamberlin, 1919) Chamberlin, Ralph V. (1919). The Annelida Polychaeta [Albatross Expeditions]. <em>Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College.</em> 48: 1-514., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ia/memoirsofmuseumo4801harv
page(s): 423; note: Note replacing of Scione with Euscione because of homonymy [details]
additional source
Nogueira, João Miguel de Matos; Fitzhugh, Kirk; Hutchings, Pat. 2013. The continuing challenge of phylogenetic relationships in Terebelliformia (Annelida : Polychaeta). Invertebrate Systematics 27(2): 186-238, available online at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/IS12062 [details]
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]
additional source
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)
note: checklist listing [details]
additional source
Holthe, Torleif 1986. Polychaeta Terebellomorpha from the northern Norwegian Sea and the Polar Sea, with descriptions of Mugga bathyalis sp.n. and Ymerana pteropoda gen. and sp.n. Sarsia, 71: 227-234., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00364827.1986.10419692
page(s): 116; note: Includes Axionice flexuosa and also A. maculata [details]
From editor or global species database
Etymology Not stated, unknown. [details]
Synonymy Jirkov & Leontovich (2017: 920) in a morphological analysis found a group including "the type species of Axionice (Terebella flexuosa); Betapista Banse, 1980 (Betapista dekkerae Banse, 1980); Eupistella Chamberlin, 1919 (Eupista darwini McIntosh, 1885); Lanice Malmgren, 1866 (Nereis conchilega Pallas, 1766); Loimia Malmgren, 1866 (Terebella medusa Savigny in de Lamarck, 1818); and Paraxionice Fauchald, 1972 (P. artifex Fauchald, 1972)." They proposed that these genera were synonyms of Axionice: "We consider this group to be a single genus and the other names as its junior synonyms. The oldest genera are Axionice, Lanice and Loimia; they were erected in one paper, so they have equal taxonomic status. We prefer to use Axionice because in the usual sense in which the genus is used is clearer and we will avoid confusion with previously used binomens". [details]
Taxonomy A long Latin diagnosis is given. Erected solely for Terebella flexuosa Grube. Fauchald (1972:319) erected Paraxionice, named for the similarity to Axionice (and to Pista), but with 16 thoracic chaetigers and a single pair of branchiae (compared to 17 chaetigers and 2-3 pairs in Axionice). Both Axionice and Paraxionice were included in Pista sensu lato by Jirkov (2001:520), but earlier Holthe (1986) had treated Axionice as valid, and subsequently Nogueira et al (2013) appear to find it is distinct in a morphological cladistic study. [details]
