Deep-Sea taxon details
Aonidella López-Jamar, 1989
325170 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:325170)
accepted
Genus
Prionospio cirrobranchiata Day, 1961 accepted as Aonidella cirrobranchiata (Day, 1961) (type by subsequent designation)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
López-Jamar, Eduardo 1989. Primera cita para el litoral de la Peninsula Iberica del genero Aonidella (Polychaeta: Spionidae), con una redescription de la especie Aonidella dayi Maciolek, 1983. Boletin Instituto Espanol de Oceanografia, 5(2): 107-109. [details]
Note López-Jamar (1989) clearly included both...
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Type species López-Jamar (1989) clearly included both Prionospio cirrobranchiata and Aonidella dayi in Aonidella, but did not designate a type species. By subsequent designation (Maciolek, 2000:529) it is P. cirrobranchiata [details]
Depth range 65-3300 m.
Distribution Western Atlantic Ocean: North Carolina to the Gulf of Mexico. Eastern Atlantic Ocean: Gulf of Cádiz, Iberian Peninsula;...
Depth range 65-3300 m. [details]
Distribution Western Atlantic Ocean: North Carolina to the Gulf of Mexico. Eastern Atlantic Ocean: Gulf of Cádiz, Iberian Peninsula;...
Distribution Western Atlantic Ocean: North Carolina to the Gulf of Mexico. Eastern Atlantic Ocean: Gulf of Cádiz, Iberian Peninsula; Mediterranean Sea; South Africa. Pacific Ocean: Japan. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Aonidella López-Jamar, 1989. Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=325170 on 2026-01-15
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2026). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Aonidella López-Jamar, 1989. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=325170 on 2026-01-15
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López-Jamar, Eduardo 1989. Primera cita para el litoral de la Peninsula Iberica del genero Aonidella (Polychaeta: Spionidae), con una redescription de la especie Aonidella dayi Maciolek, 1983. Boletin Instituto Espanol de Oceanografia, 5(2): 107-109. [details]
additional source Maciolek, Nancy J. (2000). New species and records of <i>Aonidella</i>, <i>Laonice</i>, and <i>Spiophanes</i> (Polychaeta: Spionidae) from shelf and slope depths of the Western North Atlantic. <em>Bulletin of Marine Science.</em> 67(1): 529-547., available online at https://bit.ly/2VE83VD
note: cites the authorship of Aonidella as Maciolek in López-Jamar, 1989 [details] Available for editors
additional source Imajima, M. (1992). Spionidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) from Japan. IX. The genus <i>Aonidella</i>. <em>Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo, Series A (Zoology).</em> 18(2): 57-61., available online at http://ci.nii.ac.jp/naid/110004311769/en
page(s): 57-60, fig. 2a-n [details]
additional source Sigvaldadóttir, Elin, Mackie, Andrew S. Y. and Pleijel, Fredrik 1997. Generic interrelationships within the Spionidae (Annelida: Polychaeta). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, London 119: 473-500.
note: regards Aonidella as valid [details]
additional source Maciolek Blake, Nancy. 1983: Systematics of Atlantic Spionidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) with special reference to deep-water species. Ph. D. thesis. Boston University
page(s): 50; note: Named Aonidella and Aonidella dayi, but in a work unpublished according to the Code [details]
additional source Maciolek, Nancy J. (2000). New species and records of <i>Aonidella</i>, <i>Laonice</i>, and <i>Spiophanes</i> (Polychaeta: Spionidae) from shelf and slope depths of the Western North Atlantic. <em>Bulletin of Marine Science.</em> 67(1): 529-547., available online at https://bit.ly/2VE83VD
note: cites the authorship of Aonidella as Maciolek in López-Jamar, 1989 [details] Available for editors
additional source Imajima, M. (1992). Spionidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) from Japan. IX. The genus <i>Aonidella</i>. <em>Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo, Series A (Zoology).</em> 18(2): 57-61., available online at http://ci.nii.ac.jp/naid/110004311769/en
page(s): 57-60, fig. 2a-n [details]
additional source Sigvaldadóttir, Elin, Mackie, Andrew S. Y. and Pleijel, Fredrik 1997. Generic interrelationships within the Spionidae (Annelida: Polychaeta). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, London 119: 473-500.
note: regards Aonidella as valid [details]
additional source Maciolek Blake, Nancy. 1983: Systematics of Atlantic Spionidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) with special reference to deep-water species. Ph. D. thesis. Boston University
page(s): 50; note: Named Aonidella and Aonidella dayi, but in a work unpublished according to the Code [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Authority The dilemma here is that the author is not Maciolek, who did not publish relevant content from her thesis (where the name was initiated) until 2000. Clearly López-Jamar was only referencing her earlier work rather than including her diagnostic (1983) content, so the genus authorship formulation of Maciolek in López-Jamar as used by Maciolek (2000) and more recently by Meißner, Bick, Guggolz & Götting, 2014:208 cannot be correct. [details]Depth range 65-3300 m. [details]
Distribution Western Atlantic Ocean: North Carolina to the Gulf of Mexico. Eastern Atlantic Ocean: Gulf of Cádiz, Iberian Peninsula; Mediterranean Sea; South Africa. Pacific Ocean: Japan. [details]
Publication date López-Jamar (1989) referenced the Aonidella description of Maciolek's (1983) thesis as though it had been a valid publication, but names in unpublished theses do not enter nomenclature. Aonidella is thus published first by López-Jamar in 1989. [details]
Type species López-Jamar (1989) clearly included both Prionospio cirrobranchiata and Aonidella dayi in Aonidella, but did not designate a type species. By subsequent designation (Maciolek, 2000:529) it is P. cirrobranchiata [details]
