Genus Spio Fabricius, 1785

Museums

Regional Maps

• Spio Fabricius, O. 1785. Von dem Spio-Geschlechte, Nereis seticornis und Nereis filicornis. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 6: 256-270 [258].

  Type species:

   Nereis filicornis O.F. Müller, 1776 by subsequent designation, see Söderström, A. 1920. Studien über die Polychaetenfamilie Spionidae. Uppsala. 1-286 pp.
• Euspio McIntosh, W.C. 1915. Notes from the Gatty Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, no. 37. 1. Additions to and remarks on the British Spionidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 15: 1-55.
• Heterospio Czerniavsky, V. 1881. Materialia ad Zoographiam Ponticam comparatam. Fasc. III. Vermes (cum una tabula). Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 56(1): 338-420 [360].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), 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

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Central E coast, Central W coast, Lower E coast, NW coast, S Gulfs coast

Citations

Spio.
—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 [226–227].

 

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)