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

Prionospio caspersi Laubier, 1962

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

*Apoprionospio caspersi*	(Laubier, 1962)	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: ミミスピオ

Literature

original description	Laubier, L. (1962). Quelques Annélides Polychètes de la Lagune de Venise. Description de Prionospio caspersi n.sp. Vie et Milieu. 13(1): 123-159.
additional source	Delgado-Blas, Víctor Hugo; Díaz-Díaz, Óscar; Viéitez, José M. (2018). Prionospio from the coast of the Iberian Peninsula, with the description of two new species (Annelida, Spionidae). ZooKeys. 810: 1-18.
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.
new combination reference	Foster, N.M. (1969). New species of spionids (Polychaeta) from the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea with a partial revision of the genus Prionospio. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 82(38): 381-400.
status 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 caspersi Laubier, 1962. 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:131152