Aonidella Maciolek

Delgado-Blas, Victor Hugo & Salazar-Silva, Patricia, 2011, Taxonomic catalogue of the Spionidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) of the Grand Caribbean, Zootaxa 2782, pp. 39-66 : 40-41

Genus Aonidella Maciolek in López-Jamar, 1989

Aonidella Maciolek in López-Jamar, 1989: 107 –110.

Type species: Prionospio cirrobranchiata Day, 1961 , designated by Maciolek, 1983.

Aonidella cirrobranchiata ( Day, 1961)

Prionospio cirrobranchiata Day, 1961: 488 , fig. 4a–d. — Ibarzabal, 1986: 13. Minuspio cirrobranchiata . — Foster, 1971a: 108.

Prionospio (Minuspio) cf. cirrobranchiata .— Johnson, 1984: 6.58–6.59, figs 6.47–6.48. Aonidella cirrobranchiata . — Maciolek, 2000: 530 –531, fig. 1.

Type locality. Cape Coast, South Africa (34°11´S, 18°13´E), 144 m, sandy mud; paratypes, South-West Africa (34º17´S, 17º53´E), 320 m, black and green sand and mud.

Type material. Holotype not located, paratypes ( BMNH ZK 1961.9.480/1).

Records. USA: off Florida and Texas, 15–90 m, coarse to fine sand ( Johnson, 1984). Cuba: Batabano ( Ibarzabal 1986).

Remarks. The presence of Aonidella cirrobranchiata ( Day, 1961) in the Grand Caribbean is questionable. Specimens of Johnson (1984) and Ibarzabal (1986) require examination, because these specimens differ from A. cirrobranchiata ( Day, 1961) , in having a slight medial indentation on the prostomium, four eyes instead of none, and hooded hooks with 2–4 apical teeth instead of one.