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original description
Czerniavsky, Voldemaro. (1881). Materialia ad zoographiam Ponticam comparatam. Fasc. III Vermes [Second part]. <em>Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou (= Byulletin' Moskovskogo obshchestva ispytatelei prirody).</em> 56(2): 338-420, 1 plate., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41340542 page(s): 360, 367 [details]
source of synonymy
Day, John H. (1973). New Polychaeta from Beaufort, with a key to all species recorded from North Carolina. <em>NOAA Technical Reports, Ser. National Marine Fisheries Service, Circulars.</em> 375: 1-140., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.62852 page(s): 76; note: informal placement as synonym of Spio [details] Available for editors [request]
source of synonymy
Foster, Nancy Marie. (1971). Spionidae (Polychaeta) of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. <em>Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands.</em> 36(129): 1-183., available online at http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/506046 page(s): 33 [details] Available for editors [request]
status source
Hartman, Olga. (1959). Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. <em>Allan Hancock Foundation Occasional Paper.</em> 23: 1-628. page(s): 382; note: has Paraspio as the senior synonym of Microspio [details] Available for editors [request]
status source
Maciolek, Nancy J. 1990. A redescription of some species belonging to the genus <i>Spio</i> and <i>Microspio</i> (Polychaeta: Annelida) and descriptions of three new species from Northwestern Atlantic Ocean. Journal of Natural History, 24: 1109-1141., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222939000770701 page(s): 1111; note: included as a synonym of Spio. [details]
From editor or global species database
Description Paraspio erected for Spio decoratus [sic] Bobretzky on page 360. In the course of a dichotomous key Czerniavsky simply names Paraspio as n.g. with "(Spio decoratus Bobr. 1871)" following. On p.367 there is a Latin diagnosis of Paraspio as "Caput antennis destitutum, in fronte late rotundatum, parte anteriore a poster subdivisa; осulis 4 postice sitis. Segmenta similia, posticum papillis 4 angutis terminatum. Branchiae simplices in omnibus segmentis setigeris" [details]
Synonymy Foster (1971) is one source for treatment of Paraspio as synonym of Spio. Day (1973: 76) also states (in text remarks) that Paraspio is a synonym of Spio, mentioning Holmquist (1967) comments, but Holmquist does not explicitly make a synonymy. Note P. minuta has been referred to Microspio and P. jonesi is a cataloguing error and thus a nomen nudum. Subsequent to Maciolek (1990), where Paraspio is listed as a synonym of Spio, there appears to be no further usages of the genus. [details]
Taxonomy According to Banse & Hobson (1968: 29) Hartman catalogue and supplement list the following species in Paraspio: P. africana (Rullier), P. armata (Thulin), P. minuta Hartmann-Schroder, P. kussakini (Chlebovich), P. theeli (Soderstrom), P. wireni (Augener), P. mecznikowiana (Claparede), P. rolasiana (Augener), P. arctica (Soderstrom), P. atlantica (Langerhans). Hartman included Microspio species in Paraspio, but it is currently a valid genus.
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Type designation Hartman (Catalogue 1959:382) wrongly has Spio mecznikowianus Claparede as the type species, although by monotypy it must be S. decoratus, perhaps because (page 390) she referred S. decoratus to S. mecznikowianus, while also (page 382) she placed Microspio (currently a valid genus with S. mecznikowianus as type) as a synonym of Paraspio. [details]
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