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

Spio symphyta Meißner, Bick & Bastrop, 2011

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Spio*	Fabricius, 1785	accepted genus name
*Euspio*	McIntosh, 1915	generic synonym
*Paraspio*	Czerniavsky, 1881	generic synonym

Literature

original description	Meißner, K.; Bick, A.; Bastrop, R. 2011. On the identity of Spio filicornis (O.F. Muller, 1776)—with the designation of a neotype, and the description of two new species from the North East Atlantic Ocean based on morphological and genetic studies. Zootaxa (2815): 1-27
additional source	Böggemann, Markus. (1997). Polychaeten aus der Deutschen Bucht. Taxonomische Bearbeitung und Dokumentation der vom Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg hauptsächlich in der Deutschen Bucht gesammelten Polychaeten. [Taxonomic preparation and documentation of the Polychaete collection of the research institute Senckenberg ... in the German Bight]. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg (CFS). 1-315.
additional source	Bick, Andreas; Otte, Katrin ; Meissner, Karin. 2010. A contribution to the taxonomy of Spio (Spionidae, Polychaeta, Annelida) occurring in the North and Baltic Seas, with a key to species recorded in this area. Marine Biodiversity 40(3): 161-180.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Spio symphyta Meißner, Bick & Bastrop, 2011. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=596189