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Spionides Webster & Benedict, 1887 
AphiaID: 326032

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Canalipalpata (Subclass) > Spionida (Order) > Spioniformia (Suborder) > Spionidae (Family)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Laonice Malmgren, 1867
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Spionides cirratus Webster & Benedict, 1887 (type by monotypy)
Parent Spionidae Grube, 1850
Sources  original description: Webster, Henry E. and Benedict, James E. 1887. The Annelida Chaetopoda, from Eastport, Maine. Annual Report of the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries, Washington, 1885: 707-758.
page(s): 735 [details]

basis of record: Fauchald, Kristian (2007). World Register of Polychaeta, available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta [details]

source of synonymy: Hartman, O. 1936. Nomenclatural changes involving California polychaete worms. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 26(1): 31-32.
page(s): 32 [details]

source of synonymy: Hartman, Olga 1959. Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation, 23: 628pp.
page(s): 391 [details]

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taxa
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Species Spionides cirratus Webster & Benedict, 1887 accepted as Laonice cirrata (M. Sars, 1851)
Species Spionides foliata Moore, 1923 accepted as Laonice foliata (Moore, 1923)
Species Spionides japonicus Moore, 1907 accepted as Laonice japonica (Moore, 1907)
Species Spionides sacculata Moore, 1923 accepted as Laonice sacculata (Moore, 1923)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:326032
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2008-03-14 12:50:56Z  created  Fauchald, Kristian
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z  changed  Fauchald, Kristian
2012-07-27 01:09:03Z  changed  Read, Geoffrey
  
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  Citation: Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (2013). Spionides Webster & Benedict, 1887. In: Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2013) World Polychaeta database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=326032 on 2013-06-19
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