WoRMS name details
Leospira [auct. misspelling for 'Laeospira']
174721 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:174721)
unaccepted (data entry misspelling of no significance)
Genus
marine
Not documented
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Leospira [auct. misspelling for 'Laeospira']. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=174721 on 2025-11-17
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Laeospira Caullery & Mesnil, 1897) Caullery, Maurice; Mesnil, Felix. (1897). Études sur la morphologie comparée et la phylogénie des espèces chez les Spirorbes. <em>Bulletin scientifique de la France et de la Belgique.</em> 30: 185-233, plates 7-10., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10721821
page(s): 211; note: as a subgenus of Spirorbis [details]
basis of record Clarke, Andrew; Johnston, Nadine M. (2003). Antarctic marine benthic diversity. <em>Oceanography and Marine Biology: an Annual Review.</em> 41: 47-114. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 211; note: as a subgenus of Spirorbis [details]
basis of record Clarke, Andrew; Johnston, Nadine M. (2003). Antarctic marine benthic diversity. <em>Oceanography and Marine Biology: an Annual Review.</em> 41: 47-114. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request]From editor or global species database
Spelling As far as is known the genus misspelling 'Leospira' exists only in an unpublished checklist associated with the review of Clarke & Johnston. It is clearly a simple transcription error and does not exist in the article they attribute it to (Hartman, 1967 'Eltanin' p.176) where Laeospira is correctly spelled. [details]
