Species Prionospio dubia Day, 1961

Museums

Regional Maps

• Prionospio malmgreni dubia Day, J.H. 1961. The polychaete fauna of South Africa. Part 6. Sedentary species dredged off Cape coasts with a few new records from the shore. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 44: 463-560 [489-490] [as Prionospio malmgreni var. dubia].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, South Africa.

 

Distribution

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

• South Africa

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, continental slope.

Extra Ecological Information

37–630 m depth.

 

Misidentifications

as Prionospio steenstrupi.
—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 [213, fig. 20a] (in part).

 

General References

Maciolek, N.J. 1985. A revision of the genus Prionospio Malmgren, with special emphasis on species from the Atlantic Ocean, and new records of species belonging to the genera Apoprionospio Foster and Paraprionospio Caullery (Polychaeta, Annelida, Spionidae). Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 84: 325-383 [336-339, figs 2-3] (as Prionospio (Prionospio) dubia, in part)

 

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)