additional sourceFilipjev, I. N. (1918). Free-living marine nematodes of the Sevastopol area. <em>Transactions of the Zoological Laboratory and the Sevastopol Biological Station of the Russian Academy of Sciences.</em> Series II No 4 (Issue I & II) (Translated from Russian). page(s): 89, 90; note: Misapplication: Bastian (1865) describes the genus but the name Spira was preoccupied. Filipjev changes the name to Spirina (1918) but the name was also preoccupied. Gerlach changes the name to Spirin...
Misapplication: Bastian (1865) describes the genus but the name Spira was preoccupied. Filipjev changes the name to Spirina (1918) but the name was also preoccupied. Gerlach changes the name to Spirinia and redescribes the genus.