WoRMS taxon details
Spiophanella Fauchald & Hancock, 1981
877291 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:877291)
accepted
Genus
Spiophanes pallidus Hartman, 1960 accepted as Spiophanella pallida (Hartman, 1960) (type by original designation)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Fauchald, K.; Hancock, D.R. (1981). Deep-water polychaetes from a transect off central Oregon. <em>Allan Hancock Monographs in Marine Biology.</em> 11: 1-73., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/10088/3445
page(s): 12-13 [details]
page(s): 12-13 [details]
Etymology The generic name Spiophanella is composed by the name of the similar genus Spiophanes Grube, 1860, followed by the Latin...
Etymology The generic name Spiophanella is composed by the name of the similar genus Spiophanes Grube, 1860, followed by the Latin suffix -ella (masculine: -ellus), a suffix added to a noun to form a diminuitive of that noun. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Spiophanella Fauchald & Hancock, 1981. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=877291 on 2024-11-06
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original description
Fauchald, K.; Hancock, D.R. (1981). Deep-water polychaetes from a transect off central Oregon. <em>Allan Hancock Monographs in Marine Biology.</em> 11: 1-73., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/10088/3445
page(s): 12-13 [details]
page(s): 12-13 [details]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Original diagnosis by Fauchald & Hancock (1981: 12): ''Spionid species without branchiae and without enlarged, curved hooks in the first setigers. Anterior parapodia with well-developed noto- and neuropodial postsetal lobes; median and posterior setigers with reduced lobes. Notopodia with capillary setae only; neuropodia in median and posterior setigers with hooded multidentate hooks.'' [details]Etymology The generic name Spiophanella is composed by the name of the similar genus Spiophanes Grube, 1860, followed by the Latin suffix -ella (masculine: -ellus), a suffix added to a noun to form a diminuitive of that noun. [details]
