Aonides Claparède, 1864

Radashevsky, Vasily I., 2015, Spionidae (Annelida) from Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia: the genera Aonides, Dipolydora, Polydorella, Prionospio, Pseudopolydora, Rhynchospio, and Tripolydora, Zootaxa 4019 (1), pp. 635-694 : 638

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4019.1.22
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:88F2DB05-58C4-4726-89D5-99302FABB908
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4658110
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/5E51D737-FFDE-FFA1-FF4A-A3441A9EFAE3
treatment provided by	Plazi (2016-04-21 19:24:25, last updated 2024-11-26 04:39:41)
scientific name	Aonides Claparède, 1864
status

Treatment

Aonides Claparède, 1864 View in CoL

Aonides Claparède, 1864: 505 View in CoL ; Pettibone 1963: 90; Foster 1971: 65 –66; Blake & Kudenov 1978: 189; Imajima 1989: 214; Blake 1996: 100; Brito et al. 2006: 60.

Type-species. Aonides auricularis Claparède, 1864 View in CoL [= Nerine oxycephala Sars, 1862 View in CoL ], by monotypy.

Remarks. Aonides Claparède, 1864 is a small group of spionid polychaetes currently comprising nine species. The oldest and the type species of the group, A. oxycephala (Sars, 1862) originally described from Norway, has been reported worldwide and considered cosmopolitan. These reports, however, likely comprise a series of similar or sibling species, thus more detailed morphological comparisons and molecular investigations are needed to clarify their taxonomy.

The first Aonides from Australia were identified by Blake & Kudenov (1978). The authors reported that worms from New South Wales and Victoria had at least 20 pairs of branchiae, bidentate hooks in the notopodia from about chaetiger 29 and in the neuropodia from about chaetiger 40. Hutchings & Turvey (1984) reported that the only anterior fragment of Aonides from South Australia had occipital antenna on the prostomium, branchiae on chaetigers 2–18, bidentate hooks in notopodia from chaetiger 22–24 and in neuropodia from chaetiger 22. Both Blake & Kudenov (1978) and Hutchings & Turvey (1984) concluded that their worms agreed well with the description of A. oxycephala by Ramos (1976) and identified them as such. However, originally described from Norway, A. oxycephala may not occur in Australia. The conspecificity of the Australian individuals and those from Norway should be confirmed in a molecular analysis.

References

Blake, J. A. & Kudenov, J. D. (1978) The Spionidae (Polychaeta) from southeastern Australia and adjacent areas with a revision of the genera. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, 39, 171 - 280.

Blake, J. A. (1996) Family Spionidae Grube, 1850. Including a review of the genera and species from California and a revision of the genus Polydora Bosc, 1802. In: Blake, J. A., Hilbig, B. & Scott, P. H. (Eds.), Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel. Vol. 6. The Annelida Part 3 - Polychaeta: Orbiniidae to Cossuridae. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara, California, pp. 81 - 223.

Brito, M. C., Nunez, J. & Riera, R. (2006) A new species of the genus Aonides Claparede, 1864 (Polychaeta: Spionidae) from the Macaronesian region (Eastern Central Atlantic). Scientia Marina, 70, 59 - 64.

Claparede, E. (1864) Glanures zootomiques parmi les Annelides de Port-Vendres (Pyrenees Orientales). Memoires de la Societe de Physique et d'Histoire naturelle de Geneve, 17, 463 - 600.

Foster, N. M. (1971) Spionidae (Polychaeta) of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. Studies on the fauna of Curacao and other Caribbean Islands, 36, 1 - 183.

Hutchings, P. A. & Turvey, S. P. (1984) The Spionidae of South Australia (Annelida: Polychaeta). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 108, 1 - 20.

Imajima, M. (1989) Spionidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) from Japan. I. The genera Aonides and Apoprionospio. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Series A (Zoology), 15, 213 - 222. [Tokyo]

Pettibone, M. H. (1963) Revision of some genera of polychaete worms of the family Spionidae, including the description of a new species of Scolelepis. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 76, 89 - 104.

Ramos, J. M. (1976) Aonides oxycephala (Sars, 1862) remarques taxonomiques. Vie et Milieu, Serie A, 26, 11 - 20.