Genus Prionospio Malmgren, 1867

Museums

Regional Maps

• Prionospio Malmgren, A.J. 1867. Annulata polychaeta Spetsbergiae, Grönlandiae, Islandiae et Scandinaviae hactenus cognita. Öfversigt af Kongelige Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar, Stockholm 24: 127-255 [202].

  Type species:

   Prionospio steenstrupi Malmgren, 1867 by original designation.
• Ctenospio Sars, M. 1867. Beskrivelse og afbildninger of folgende norske annelider. Christiana Videnskabs-Selskabs Forhandlinger 1866: 1-291 [291].
• Kinbergella McIntosh, W.C. 1909. Notes from the Gatty Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, no. 31. On the Spionidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 3: 153-180 [177].
• Pteriptyches Grube, A.-E. 1872. Über ein Paar neue Anneliden aus der Familie der Spioden. Jahresbericht der Schlesischen Gesellschaft für Vaterländische Kultur, Breslau 50: 57-59 [58].
• Minuspio Foster, N.M. 1971. Spionidae (Polychaeta) of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands 36: 1-183 [106-107].
• Aquilaspio Foster, N.M. 1971. Spionidae (Polychaeta) of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands 36: 1-183 [105-106].
• Apoprionospio Foster, N. 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: 381-400.

 

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), 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), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

• Mozambique
• Namibia (Southwest Africa)
• South Africa

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Central E coast, Central W coast, G. Aust. Bight, Lower E coast, Lower W coast, NW coast, S Gulfs coast, SW coast, Tas. Coast
• New Zealand
  • North Island
  • South Island
• Solomon Islands

Nearctic Region

• United States of America
  • Massachusetts

Oriental Region

• India

Palaearctic Region

• Iceland
• Morocco

Citations

Prionospio.
—Blake, J.A. & Kudenov, J.D. 1978. The Spionidae (Polychaeta) from southeastern Australia and adjacent areas with a revision of the genera. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 39: 171–280 [211–212].
—Wilson, R.S. 1990. Prionospio and Paraprionospio (Polychaeta: Spionidae) from southern Australia. Memoirs of the Museum of Victoria 50: 243–274 [245–246].

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
17-Oct-2023		29-Oct-2010	MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023		16-Sep-2010	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)