Genus Platynereis Kinberg, 1866

?(AL) Platynereis australis (Schmarda, 1861)

DISTRIBUTION: NA.

LITERATURE RECORDS: Castelli et al. 2008.

REMARKS: Alien species in the Mediterranean Sea, with origin from New Zealand (Pacific Ocean) (Read 2007; Zenetos et al. 2010). The presence in the Adriatic Sea is uncertain; specimens were found in 1992 by Castelli (unpublished data) in Sacca Barbamarco, near the Po River delta (Castelli et al. 2008).

Platynereis coccinea (Delle Chiaje, 1827)

DISTRIBUTION: NA.

LITERATURE RECORDS: Katzmann 1971, 1972; Amoureux 1983c; Požar-Domac 1994; Castelli et al. 2008. NEW RECORDS: BM34.

Platynereis dumerilii (Audouin & Milne-Edwards, 1833)

DISTRIBUTION: NA, CA, SA.

LITERATURE RECORDS: Grube 1861; Lorenz 1863; Stossich 1883; Carus 1884; Graeffe 1905; Santucci 1922; Vatova 1928; Fauvel 1934, 1938; Zalokar 1942; Banse 1959; Laubier 1962; Zavodnik 1965, 1967b; Bellan 1969; Banse 1970; Zavodnik 1971; Katzmann 1971, 1972; Marcuzzi 1972; Matjašić & Štirn 1975; Velimirov & Sint 1975; Amoureux 1975, 1976; Vrišer 1978; Vaccarella et al. 1981; Vrišer et al. 1981; Igić 1982; Amoureux 1983c; Avčin & Vrišer 1983; Požar-Domac 1983; Del Piero et al. 1984; Vaccarella et al. 1985; Požar-Domac 1986; Aleffi et al. 1988; Gherardi et al. 1993; Požar-Domac 1994; Zahtila 1995; Crema et al. 2000; Pranovi et al. 2000; Zavodnik & Kovačić 2000; Piscitelli et al. 2001; Sfriso et al. 2001; Fraschetti et al. 2002; Maggiore 2002; Nonnis et al. 2002; Giangrande et al. 2002a, 2003, 2004; Prevedelli et al. 2007; Solis-Weiss et al. 2007; Castelli et al. 2008.

NEW RECORDS: BM1, BM2, BM4, BM5, BM6, BM7, BM8, BM9, BM11, BM14, BM18, BM19, BM55, BM69, BM68, BM74, BM75, BM81, BM82, BM89.

OTHER REPORTED NAMES: Platynereis dumerilii (Audouin & Milne-Edwards, 1833); Nereis dumerilii Audouin et Milne-Edwards, 1833; Nereis zostericola Ørsted, 1843 .

® Platynereis nadiae Abbiati & Castelli, 1992 DISTRIBUTION: NA.

NEW RECORDS: BM80, BM83, BM84, BM87.

REMARKS: These are the first records from the Adriatic Sea.