Dipolydora Verrill, 1881

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 : 643

Dipolydora Verrill, 1881

Dipolydora Verrill, 1881: 320 ; Blake 1996: 181, resurrected and redefined.

Type-species. Polydora concharum Verrill, 1879 . Designated by Verrill (1881), by monotypy.

Remarks. Dipolydora Verrill, 1881 currently comprises about forty species of polydorin spionids (tribe Polydorini Benham, 1896 sensu Radashevsky, 2012 ) that occupy diverse habitats from the intertidal to deep water. The name Dipolydora was not in use after its designation by Verrill (1881) until Blake (1996) resurrected it and assigned to it a series of Polydora Bosc, 1802 species that, in contrast to species of Polydora , had notochaetae on chaetiger 1 and lacked a constriction or manubrium on the shaft of the hooded hooks.

Nine Dipolydora species were reported from Australian waters by Blake & Kudenov (1978) (as Polydora species), McDiarmid et al. (2004) and Sato-Okoshi et al. (2008).