Genus Neodexiospira Pillai, 1970

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• Neodexiospira Pillai, 1970.

  Type species:

   Spirorbis formosus Bush, 1905 by original designation, see Pillai, T.G. 1970. Studies on a collection of spirorbids from Ceylon, together with a critical review and revision of spirorbid systematics and an account of their phylogeny and zoogeography. Ceylon Journal of Science Biological Sciences 8: 100-172.
• Dexiospira Caullery, M. & Mesnil, F. 1897. Études sur la morphologie comparée et la phylogénie des espèces chez les Spirorbes. Bulletin Scientifique de la France et de la Belgique 30: 185-233.

  Type species:

   Spirorbis pseudocorrugatus Bush, 1905 by original designation.
• Spirorbella Chamberlin, R.V. 1919. The Annelida Polychaeta of the Albatross Tropical Pacific Expeditions, 1891–1905. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University 48: 1-514.

  Type species:

   Spirorbis marioni Caullery & Mesnil, 1897 by original designation.

Introduction

Neodexiospira was previously considered a synonym of Dexiospira, but Dexiospira was subsequently identified as a junior homonym, and thus replaced with Neodexiospira.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

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