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

Spionidae Grube, 1850

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Aonides Claparède, 1864
Apoprionospio Foster, 1969
Atherospio Mackie & Duff, 1986
Aurospio Maciolek, 1981
Boccardia Carazzi, 1893
Boccardiella Blake & Kudenov, 1978
Dipolydora Verrill, 1881
Dispio Hartman, 1951
Laonice Malmgren, 1867
Laubieriellus Maciolek, 1981
Malacoceros Quatrefages, 1843
Marenzelleria Mesnil, 1896
Microspio Mesnil, 1896
Paraprionospio Caullery, 1914
Polydora Bosc, 1802
Prionospio Malmgren, 1867
Pseudopolydora Czerniavsky, 1881
Pygospio Claparède, 1863
Pygospiopsis Blake, 1983
Scolelepis Blainville, 1828
Spio Fabricius, 1785
Spiophanes Grube, 1860
Streblospio Webster, 1879

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: spionid worms; spionids; spios sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

German: Haarwürmer sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

Japanese: スピオ科

Literature

original description	Grube, Adolf Eduard. (1850). Die Familien der Anneliden. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin. 16(1): 249-364.
identification resource	Abe, Hirokazu; Sato-Okoshi, Waka. (2021). Molecular identification and larval morphology of spionid polychaetes (Annelida, Spionidae) from northeastern Japan. ZooKeys. 1015: 1-86.
identification resource	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.
identification resource	Maciolek Blake, Nancy. 1983: Systematics of Atlantic Spionidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) with special reference to deep-water species. Ph. D. thesis. Boston University
identification resource	Blake, J.A. 1980. Polychaeta Spionidae from American and Antarctic Seas. American Zoologist 20(4): 264.
identification resource	Blake, J.A. 1996. Family Spionidae Grube, 1850. pages 81-223. IN: Blake, James A.; Hilbig, Brigitte; and Scott, Paul H. Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel. 6 - The Annelida Part 3. Polychaeta: Orbiniidae to Cossuridae. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. Santa Barbara

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Spionidae Grube, 1850. 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:913