WoRMS name details
Prionospio heterobranchia newportensis Reish, 1959
335647 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:335647)
unaccepted (rank upgrade to species)
Subspecies
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Reish, D.J. 1959. New species of Spionidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) from southern California. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences, 58(1): 11-16. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2026). World Polychaeta Database. Prionospio heterobranchia newportensis Reish, 1959. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=335647 on 2026-08-07
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Nomenclature
original description
Reish, D.J. 1959. New species of Spionidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) from southern California. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences, 58(1): 11-16. [details]
Taxonomy
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): 127 [rank change] [details]
page(s): 127 [rank change] [details]
Present
Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio
Inaccurate
Introduced: alien
Containing type locality
Holotype LACMIP LACM-AHF POLY 613, verbatimGeounit Newport Bay, Orange ... [details]
From editor or global species database
Type locality Newport Bay, Orange County, California, 33.6013, -117.9114° [details]