World Polychaeta Database - Spiophanella Fauchald & Hancock, 1981

Polychaeta taxon details

Spiophanella Fauchald & Hancock, 1981

AphiaID

877291 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:877291)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Typetaxon

Spiophanes pallidus Hartman, 1960 accepted as Spiophanella pallida (Hartman, 1960) (type by original designation)

Parent

Spionidae Grube, 1850

Orig. name

Spiophanella Fauchald & Hancock, 1981

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Species Spiophanella pallida (Hartman, 1960)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Fauchald, K.; Hancock, D.R. (1981). Deep-water polychaetes from a transect off central Oregon. <em>Allan Hancock Monographs in Marine Biology.</em> 11: 1-73., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/10088/3445
page(s): 12-13 [details]

Descriptive notes

Etymology The generic name Spiophanella is composed by the name of the similar genus Spiophanes Grube, 1860, followed by the Latin...

Etymology The generic name Spiophanella is composed by the name of the similar genus Spiophanes Grube, 1860, followed by the Latin suffix -ella (masculine: -ellus), a suffix added to a noun to form a diminuitive of that noun. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Spiophanella Fauchald & Hancock, 1981. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=877291 on 2024-04-19

Taxonomic edit history

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2016-05-22 02:39:00Z

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Gil, João

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original description Fauchald, K.; Hancock, D.R. (1981). Deep-water polychaetes from a transect off central Oregon. <em>Allan Hancock Monographs in Marine Biology.</em> 11: 1-73., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/10088/3445
page(s): 12-13 [details]

From editor or global species database

Diagnosis Original diagnosis by Fauchald & Hancock (1981: 12): ''Spionid species without branchiae and without enlarged, curved hooks in the first setigers. Anterior parapodia with well-developed noto- and neuropodial postsetal lobes; median and posterior setigers with reduced lobes. Notopodia with capillary setae only; neuropodia in median and posterior setigers with hooded multidentate hooks.'' [details]