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

Prionospio cirrifera Wirén, 1883

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Prionospio*	Malmgren, 1867	accepted genus name
*Kinbergella*	McIntosh, 1909	generic synonym
*Minuspio*	Foster, 1971	generic synonym
*Aquilaspio*	Foster, 1971	synonym
*Prionospio (Minuspio)*	Foster, 1971	synonym
*Prionospio (Prionospio)*	[auctorum]	synonym

Species group names

*Minuspio cirrifera*	(Wirén, 1883)	synonym

Literature

original description	Wirén, Axel. (1883). Chaetopoder från Sibiriska Ishafvet och Berings Haf Insamlade under Vega-Expeditionen 1878-1879. Vega-Expeditionens Vetenskapliga Iakttagelser bearbetade af deltagare i resan och andra forskare: Stockholm, F&G Beijers Förlag. 2: 383-428, plates 27-32.
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.
additional source	Hartmann-Schröder, G. (1996). Annelida, Borstenwürmer, Polychaeta [Annelida, bristleworms, Polychaeta]. 2nd revised ed. The fauna of Germany and adjacent seas with their characteristics and ecology, 58. Gustav Fischer: Jena, Germany. ISBN 3-437-35038-2. 648 pp.
additional source	Augener, H. 1928. Die Polychaeten von Spitzbergen. Fauna Arctica, Jena, 5: 647-834.
additional source	Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
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.
source of synonymy	Foster, Nancy Marie. (1971). Spionidae (Polychaeta) of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands. 36(129): 1-183.
source of synonymy	Berkeley, Edith; Berkeley, Cyril. (1952). Annelida. Polychaeta Sedentaria. Canadian Pacific Fauna. Fisheries Research Board of Canada, Toronto. 9b(2): 1-139.
taxonomy source	Mackie, Andrew S.Y. (1984). On the identity and zoogeography of Prionospio cirrifera Wirén, 1883 and Prionospio multibranchiata Berkeley, 1927 (Polychaeta; Spionidae). pp. 35-47. IN: Hutchings, Patricia A. (Ed.). Proceedings of the First International Polychaete Conference, Sydney, Australia, July 1983. Sydney, The Linnean Society of New South Wales.
taxonomy source	Maciolek, N. J. (1985). A revision of the genus Prionospio Malmgren, with special emphasis on species from the Atlantic Ocean, and new records of species belonging to the genera Apoprionospio Foster and Paraprionospio Caullery (Polychaeta, Annelida, Spionidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, London. 84: 325-383.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Prionospio cirrifera Wirén, 1883. 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:131153