Rhynchospio Hartman, 1936

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 : 684

Rhynchospio Hartman, 1936

Rhynchospio Hartman, 1936: 51 ; Fauchald 1977: 25; Blake & Kudenov 1978: 198 –199; Radashevsky 2007: 996. Malacoceros ( Rhynchospio ).— Pettibone 1963: 98 –99; Foster 1971: 48.

Type-species. Rhynchospio arenincola Hartman, 1936 , by monotypy.

Remarks. Rhynchospio Hartman, 1936 is a small group of spionid polychaetes currently comprising ten species. The species were recently reviewed and a key to their identification was provided by Radashevsky et al. ( 2014).

First Rhynchospio from Australia were reported by Blake & Kudenov ( 1978) who described two new species, R. glycera from Burwood Beach, New South Wales, and R. australiana from Perth, West Australia. Both species were described based on single individuals, never re-described and not reported from other localities.