WoRMS taxon details
Rhynchospio Hartman, 1936
174829 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:174829)
accepted
Genus
Rhynchospio arenincola Hartman, 1936 (type by original designation)
Malacoceros (Rhynchospio) · unaccepted (superseded alternate representation)
- Species Rhynchospio aciliata Lee & Min, 2022
- Species Rhynchospio arenincola Hartman, 1936
- Species Rhynchospio asiatica Chlebovitsch, 1959
- Species Rhynchospio australiana Blake & Kudenov, 1978
- Species Rhynchospio darwini Radashevsky, 2015
- Species Rhynchospio foliosa Imajima, 1991
- Species Rhynchospio glandulosa Radashevsky & Choi, 2021
- Species Rhynchospio glutaea (Ehlers, 1897)
- Species Rhynchospio glycera Blake & Kudenov, 1978
- Species Rhynchospio inflata (Foster, 1971)
- Species Rhynchospio mzansi Simon, Williams & Henninger, 2018
- Species Rhynchospio nhatrangi Radashevsky, 2007
- Species Rhynchospio tuberculata Imajima, 1991
- Species Rhynchospio microcera Dorsey, 1977 accepted as Microspio microcera (Dorsey, 1977) (superseded original combination)
- Species Rhynchospio harrisae Delgado-Blas & Díaz-Díaz, 2010 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum, probably a Microspio [fide Radashevsky et al. 2014])
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Hartman, Olga. (1936). New species of Spionidae (Annelida Polychaeta) from the coast of California. <em>University of California Publications in Zoology.</em> 41(6): 45-52.
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Etymology Rhynchospio was treated as feminine by Hartman (1936), and explicitly stated as feminine by Radashevsky (2007). No...
Etymology Rhynchospio was treated as feminine by Hartman (1936), and explicitly stated as feminine by Radashevsky (2007). No etymology was given by Hartman, but presumably the genus was named as related to Spio, and possessing frontal horns (Greek rhyncho-, provided with a snout or beak). [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Rhynchospio Hartman, 1936. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=174829 on 2025-04-20
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Nomenclature
original description
Hartman, Olga. (1936). New species of Spionidae (Annelida Polychaeta) from the coast of California. <em>University of California Publications in Zoology.</em> 41(6): 45-52.
page(s): 51 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 51 [details] Available for editors
[request]Taxonomy
taxonomy source
Radashevsky, V.I. 2007. Morphology and biology of a new Rhynchospio species (Annelida : Spionidae) from the South China Sea, Vietnam, with the review of Rhynchospio taxa. Journal of Natural History 41(17-20): 985-997 [details]
taxonomy source Radashevsky, Vasily I.; Neretina, T. V.; Pankova, V. V.; Tzetlin, A. B.; Choi, J. (2014). Molecular identity, morphology and taxonomy of the Rhynchospio glutaea complex with a key to Rhynchospio species (Annelida, Spionidae). <em>Systematics and Biodiversity.</em> 12 (4): 424-433., available online at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14772000.2014.941039 [details]
taxonomy source Radashevsky, Vasily I.; Neretina, T. V.; Pankova, V. V.; Tzetlin, A. B.; Choi, J. (2014). Molecular identity, morphology and taxonomy of the Rhynchospio glutaea complex with a key to Rhynchospio species (Annelida, Spionidae). <em>Systematics and Biodiversity.</em> 12 (4): 424-433., available online at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14772000.2014.941039 [details]
Identification resource
identification resource
Radashevsky, Vasily I.; Neretina, T. V.; Pankova, V. V.; Tzetlin, A. B.; Choi, J. (2014). Molecular identity, morphology and taxonomy of the Rhynchospio glutaea complex with a key to Rhynchospio species (Annelida, Spionidae). <em>Systematics and Biodiversity.</em> 12 (4): 424-433., available online at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14772000.2014.941039
page(s): [key to species] [details]
identification resource Radashevsky, V.I. 2007. Morphology and biology of a new Rhynchospio species (Annelida : Spionidae) from the South China Sea, Vietnam, with the review of Rhynchospio taxa. Journal of Natural History 41(17-20): 985-997
page(s): [key] [details]
page(s): [key to species] [details]
identification resource Radashevsky, V.I. 2007. Morphology and biology of a new Rhynchospio species (Annelida : Spionidae) from the South China Sea, Vietnam, with the review of Rhynchospio taxa. Journal of Natural History 41(17-20): 985-997
page(s): [key] [details]
Other
additional source
Radashevsky, Vasily I.; Malyar, Vasily V.; Pankova, Victoria V.; Nuzhdin, Sergey V. (2016). Molecular analysis of six Rhynchospio Hartman, 1936 species (Annelida: Spionidae) with comments on the evolution of brooding within the group. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4127(3): 579., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4127.3.10 [details] Available for editors [request]
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Diagnosis Prostomium with frontal horns, branchiae from chaetiger 2, notochaetae capillaries only, pygidium with cirri or lobes (after Blake, 1996). However, note that the two major characters conventionally used to place taxa in Rhynchospio, the presence of latero-frontal horns on the prostomium, and branchiae beginning from chaetiger 2, are homoplasious and also present in other Spionidae (Radashevsky et al. 2014). [details]Editor's comment Rhynchospio species described to date are all from the intertidal or very shallow water. This genus does not occur in the deepsea (no reliable records in GBIF as at August 2014) [details]
Etymology Rhynchospio was treated as feminine by Hartman (1936), and explicitly stated as feminine by Radashevsky (2007). No etymology was given by Hartman, but presumably the genus was named as related to Spio, and possessing frontal horns (Greek rhyncho-, provided with a snout or beak). [details]
