Polychaeta taxon details
original description
Wesenberg-Lund, Elise. (1958). Lesser Antillean polychaetes chiefly from brackish waters, with a survey and a bibliography of fresh and brackish water polychaetes. <em>Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands.</em> 8: 1-41., available online at http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/506173 page(s): 19 [details] Available for editors [request]
source of synonymy
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 [details] Available for editors [request]
status source
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): 123 [includes redescription] [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype BMNH BMNH-1958.1.27.1, verbatimGeounit Gasparee Cave, Gaspa... [details]
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Taxonomy Was synonymised with P. heterobranchia by Foster. Delgado-Blas (2014) redescribes as valid [details]
Type locality Gasparee Cave, Point Baleine on the north-eastern side of Gasparo Grande Island, Trinidad, West Indies, Caribbean Sea (Wesenberg-Lund, 1958 and fide Delgado-Blas, 2014). Noting Hartman catalogue has the locality as Curaçao which is wrong. This may have been an assumption based on the the journal title of Wesenberg-Lund's original article. Wesenberg-Lund records the salinity of the cave water as much below saline, but there is a connection to the sea. [details]
Type specimen Wesenberg-Lund (1958:19) "Only a single imperfect specimen is to hand, extracted from a tiny bit of sponge; it consists only of about 30 anterior segments and is approximately 4 mm long, but the branchial region is so characteristic that I venture to describe the fragment as belonging to a hitherto undescribed species [details]
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