WoRMS name details
Prionospio (Minuspio) Foster, 1971
152225 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:152225)
unaccepted (superseded subgenus rank combination)
Subgenus
Prionospio cirrifera Wirén, 1883 (type by original designation)
- Species Prionospio (Minuspio) aluta Maciolek, 1985 accepted as Prionospio aluta Maciolek, 1985 (superseded subgenus)
- Species Prionospio (Minuspio) cirrifera Wirén, 1883 accepted as Prionospio cirrifera Wirén, 1883 (superseded subgenus)
- Species Prionospio (Minuspio) delta Hartman, 1965 accepted as Prionospio delta Hartman, 1965 (superseded subgenus)
- Species Prionospio (Minuspio) elegantula Imajima, 1990 accepted as Prionospio elegantula Imajima, 1990 (superseded original combination)
- Species Prionospio (Minuspio) elongata Imajima, 1990 accepted as Prionospio elongata Imajima, 1990 (superseded combination)
- Species Prionospio (Minuspio) fauchaldi Maciolek, 1985 accepted as Prionospio fauchaldi Maciolek, 1985 (superseded subgenus)
- Species Prionospio (Minuspio) japonica Okuda, 1935 accepted as Prionospio japonica Okuda, 1935 (superseded combination)
- Species Prionospio (Minuspio) laciniosa Maciolek, 1985 accepted as Prionospio laciniosa Maciolek, 1985 (superseded subgenus)
- Species Prionospio (Minuspio) lighti Maciolek, 1985 accepted as Prionospio lighti Maciolek, 1985 (superseded subgenus)
- Species Prionospio (Minuspio) multibranchiata Berkeley, 1927 accepted as Prionospio multibranchiata Berkeley, 1927 (superseded subgenus)
- Species Prionospio (Minuspio) perkinsi Maciolek, 1985 accepted as Prionospio perkinsi Maciolek, 1985 (superseded original combination)
- Species Prionospio (Minuspio) pulchra Imajima, 1990 accepted as Prionospio pulchra Imajima, 1990 (superseded combination)
- Species Prionospio (Minuspio) sandersi Maciolek, 1981 accepted as Prionospio sandersi Maciolek, 1981 (superseded original combination)
- Species Prionospio (Minuspio) wireni Maciolek, 1985 accepted as Prionospio wireni Maciolek, 1985 (superseded subgenus)
- Species Prionospio (Minuspio) anatolica Dagli & Çinar, 2011 represented as Prionospio anatolica Dagli & Çinar, 2011 (disused subgenus)
- Species Prionospio (Minuspio) maciolekae Dagli & Çinar, 2011 represented as Prionospio maciolekae Dagli & Çinar, 2011 (disused subgenus)
- Species Prionospio (Minuspio) sanmartini Delgado-Blas, Díaz-Díaz & Viéitez, 2019 represented as Prionospio sanmartini Delgado-Blas, Díaz-Díaz & Viéitez, 2019 (disused subgenus)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(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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page(s): 106-107 [details] Available for editors
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Nomenclature Erected at genus level. Not currently valid as a subgenus or genus (e.g., Sigvaldadottir (1998). Alternate representations...
Nomenclature Erected at genus level. Not currently valid as a subgenus or genus (e.g., Sigvaldadottir (1998). Alternate representations of authors at subgenus-level may be seen. WoRMS report these as they are used and may create Prionospio recombinations for them for consistency. However, Sigvaldadottir (1998) concludes the apinnate branchiae of Minuspio "represent a heterogeneous and non-homologous assemblage of characters", and that "Prionospio (M.) cirrifera (with secondarily lost pinnules and increased number of branchiae) is more closely related to species with pinnate branchiae than to other species referred to Minuspio". This is significant as Minuspio cirrifera (originally Prionospio cirrifera) is the type species. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Prionospio (Minuspio) Foster, 1971. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=152225 on 2025-05-08
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Nomenclature
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 [request]
basis of record Hartmann-Schröder, G. (1996). Annelida, Borstenwürmer, Polychaeta [Annelida, bristleworms, Polychaeta]. <em>2nd revised ed. The fauna of Germany and adjacent seas with their characteristics and ecology, 58. Gustav Fischer: Jena, Germany. ISBN 3-437-35038-2.</em> 648 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 106-107 [details] Available for editors
[request]basis of record Hartmann-Schröder, G. (1996). Annelida, Borstenwürmer, Polychaeta [Annelida, bristleworms, Polychaeta]. <em>2nd revised ed. The fauna of Germany and adjacent seas with their characteristics and ecology, 58. Gustav Fischer: Jena, Germany. ISBN 3-437-35038-2.</em> 648 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
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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
note: Concludes the apinnate branchiae of Minuspio "represent a heterogeneous and non-homologous assemblage of characters" [details]
note: Concludes the apinnate branchiae of Minuspio "represent a heterogeneous and non-homologous assemblage of characters" [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Nomenclature Erected at genus level. Not currently valid as a subgenus or genus (e.g., Sigvaldadottir (1998). Alternate representations of authors at subgenus-level may be seen. WoRMS report these as they are used and may create Prionospio recombinations for them for consistency. However, Sigvaldadottir (1998) concludes the apinnate branchiae of Minuspio "represent a heterogeneous and non-homologous assemblage of characters", and that "Prionospio (M.) cirrifera (with secondarily lost pinnules and increased number of branchiae) is more closely related to species with pinnate branchiae than to other species referred to Minuspio". This is significant as Minuspio cirrifera (originally Prionospio cirrifera) is the type species. [details]
