Ampharete Malmgren, 1866

Mikac, Barbara, 2015, A sea of worms: polychaete checklist of the Adriatic Sea, Zootaxa 3943 (1), pp. 1-172 : 15-16

Genus Ampharete Malmgren, 1866

? Ampharete acutifrons ( Grube 1860)

DISTRIBUTION: NA, CA, SA.

LITERATURE RECORDS: Vatova 1949a; Laubier 1962; Gamulin-Brida et al. 1968; Bellan 1969; Orel & Mennea 1969; Zavodnik 1971, Katzmann 1972; Marcuzzi 1972; Cognetti-Varriale & Zunarelli-Vandini 1978; Zavodnik et al. 1978; Amoureux 1979; Zavodnik 1979; Orel et al. 1982; Amoureux 1983a; Avčin & Vrišer 1983; Fassari 1983; Stjepčević et al. 1984; Gillet 1985/1986; Ambrogi et al. 1987; Orel et al. 1987; Zavodnik & Vidaković 1987; Aleffi et al. 1988; Požar-Domac 1994; Zahtila 1995, 1997; Martinelli et al. 1998; Zavodnik & Kovačić 2000; Crema et al. 2001; Ceschia et al. 2002; Aleffi et al. 2003; Simonini et al. 2004; Solis-Weiss et al. 2004, Occhipinti-Ambrogi et al. 2005; Simonini et al. 2005b; Boscolo et al. 2006; Simonini et al. 2007; Solis-Weiss et al. 2007; Castelli et al. 2008.

OTHER REPORTED NAMES: Ampharete grubei Malmgren, 1866 .

REMARKS: This species was previously the only Ampharete species reported for the Adriatic Sea. Based on personal findings from the region, where all Ampharete specimens (including the ones reported as A. acutifrons in Mikac et al. 2011 and Musco et al. 2011) were actually revealed to belong to A. lindstroemi Hessle, 1917 , I assume that previous A. acutifrons from the Adriatic were possibly confused with A. lindstroemi and that species might be absent from the region. Parapar (1993) questioned the presence of A. acutifrons in the Mediterranean.

® Ampharete lindstroemi Hessle, 1917

DISTRIBUTION: NA, CA, SA.

LITERATURE RECORDS: Mikac et al. 2011; Musco et al. 2011.

NEW RECORDS: BM11, BM12, BM13, BM17, BM19, BM20, BM21, BM22, BM27, BM28, BM34, BM38, BM39, BM40, BM41, BM42, BM43, BM45, BM46, BM47, BM48, BM49, BM50, BM51, BM52, BM53, BM54, BM65, BM66, BM91, BM92, BM97, BM96, BM98, BM99, BM100, BM101.

OTHER REPORTED NAMES: Ampharete acutifrons ( Grube 1860) .

REMARKS: These are the first records of the species in the Adriatic Sea. See Remarks under A. acutifrons . DEPOSITED MATERIAL: BM52, 26.10.2003., 7 spec. (PMR-17608).