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WoRMS name details

Prionospio dayi (Foster, 1969)

AphiaID

558834 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:558834)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > superseded combination (superseded subsequent combination)

Accepted name

Apoprionospio dayi Foster, 1969

Rank

Species

Parent

Prionospio Malmgren, 1867

Original name

Apoprionospio dayi Foster, 1969

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Subspecies Prionospio dayi japonica (Imajima, 1989) accepted as Apoprionospio japonica Imajima, 1989 (superseded subsequent combination which would be an unreplaced junior secondary homonym to Prionospio japonica Okuda, 1935, according to ICZN Article 57.3)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

(of Apoprionospio dayi Foster, 1969) Foster, N.M. (1969). New species of spionids (Polychaeta) from the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea with a partial revision of the genus Prionospio. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 82(38): 381-400., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34595410
page(s): 383-388, figs. 1-11 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2026). World Polychaeta Database. Prionospio dayi (Foster, 1969). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=558834 on 2026-08-22

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2011-01-27 22:40:25Z

created

Read, Geoffrey

2011-11-12 05:25:39Z

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Read, Geoffrey

2023-03-20 08:03:58Z

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Read, Geoffrey

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Nomenclature

original description (of Apoprionospio dayi Foster, 1969) Foster, N.M. (1969). New species of spionids (Polychaeta) from the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea with a partial revision of the genus Prionospio. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 82(38): 381-400., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34595410
page(s): 383-388, figs. 1-11 [details]

Taxonomy

status source Sigvaldadóttir, E. (1998). Cladistic analysis and classification of Prionospio and related general (Polychaeta, Spionidae). Zoologica Scripta. 27(3): 175-187., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1463-6409.1998.tb00435.x [details]