WoRMS name details
original description
(of Dexiospira Caullery & Mesnil, 1897) Caullery, Maurice; Mesnil, Felix. (1897). Études sur la morphologie comparée et la phylogénie des espèces chez les Spirorbes. <em>Bulletin scientifique de la France et de la Belgique.</em> 30: 185-233, plates 7-10., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10721821 page(s): 198 [details]
additional source
Fauchald, K. (1977). The polychaete worms, definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. <em>Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA), Science Series.</em> 28:1-188., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/123110.pdf page(s): 148-150; note: Fauchald's 1977 guide has Dexiospira as valid, Neodexiospira as its synonym. This evidently precedes knowledge that the spirorbin Dexiospira genus is a homonym, which is replaced by Neodexiospira [details]
additional source
Knight-Jones, P. (1972). New species and a new subgenus of Spirorbinae (Serpulidae: Polychaeta) from Kenya. <em>J. Zool. Lond.</em> 166: 1-18. [details]
source of synonymy
Knight-Jones, Phyllis. (1984). A new species of Protoleodora (Spirorbidae: Polychaeta) from eastern U.S.S.R., with a brief revision of related genera. <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, London.</em> 80(2-3): 109-120., available online at https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-abstract/80/2-3/109/2703213 note: Dexiospira is a homonym and Knight-Jones replaces it with its synonym Neodexiospira [details]
From editor or global species database
Remark Treated as a subgenus of Janua by Knight-Jones (1972 and 1973) [details]
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