Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Sedentaria > Infraclass Canalipalpata > Order Spionida > Suborder Spioniformia > Family Spionidae

Spiophanes Grube, 1860

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Morants*	Chamberlin, 1919	generic synonym

Children

Spiophanes bombyx (Claparède, 1870)
Spiophanes duplex (Chamberlin, 1919)
Spiophanes kroyeri Grube, 1860
Spiophanes reyssi Laubier, 1964
Spiophanes wigleyi Pettibone, 1962

Literature

original description	Grube, A.E. (1860). Beschreibung neuer oder wenig bekannter Anneliden. Fünfter Beitrag. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin. 26 (1): 71-118, plates III-V.
additional source	Meißner, Karin; Bick, Andreas; Müller, Carsten H. G. 2012. Parapodial glandular organs in Spiophanes (Polychaeta: Spionidae) studies on their functional anatomy and ultrastructure. Journal of Morphology 273(3): 291-311.
additional source	Bellan, G. (2001). Polychaeta, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 214-231.
additional source	Meißner, Karin. (2005). Revision of the genus Spiophanes (Polychaeta, Spionidae); with new synonymies, new records and descriptions of new species. Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, Zoologische Reihe. 81(1): 3-65.
additional source	Meißner, Karin and Hutchings, Patricia A. 2003. Spiophanes species (polychaeta: Spionidae) from eastern Australia: with descriptions of new species, new records and an emended generic diagosis. Records of the Australian Museum, 55(2): 117-140.
additional source	Fauchald, K. (1977). The polychaete worms, definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA), Science Series. 28:1-188.
additional source	Day, J. H. (1967). [Sedentaria] A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 2. Sedentaria. British Museum (Natural History), London. pp. 459–842.
identification resource	Meißner, Karin. (2005). Revision of the genus Spiophanes (Polychaeta, Spionidae); with new synonymies, new records and descriptions of new species. Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, Zoologische Reihe. 81(1): 3-65.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Spiophanes Grube, 1860. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:129626