Polygordius Schneider 1868 ...

• Main Author: Mikac, Barbara
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2015
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Annelida; Polychaeta; Polygordiidae; Polygordius; Helgoland; North East Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6117802; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6117802

Genus Polygordius Schneider, 1868 ® Polygordius appendiculatus Fraipont, 1887 DISTRIBUTION: NA. NEW RECORDS: Two stations along the coast of Rovinj (NA), corresponding to BM10 and BM20 (Ramey-Balci, pers.comm.). REMARKS: These are the first records from the Adriatic Sea. ? Polygordius lacteus Schneider, 1868 DISTRIBUTION: NA. LITERATURE RECORDS: Graeff 1905; Salvini-Plawen 1968. REMARKS: Given the historical difficulty in distinguishing morphologically P. l a ct e us from P. neapolitanus Fraipont, 1887, together with their known different geographical distributions, it is likely that the Adriatic records of P. l a ct e us actually refer to P. neapolitanus or possibly to P. triestinus Woltereck in Hemplemann, 1906 (since Graeffe's 1905 report is from the Gulf of Trieste—the type locality for P. triestinus) (P. Ramey-Balci, pers. comm.). Polygordius lacteus was originally described from Helgoland, in the North Sea (Schneider 1868) and its known distribution includes the North Sea and the North East Atlantic ... : Published as part of Mikac, Barbara, 2015, A sea of worms: polychaete checklist of the Adriatic Sea, pp. 1-172 in Zootaxa 3943 (1) on pages 87-88, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3943.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/244663 ...