Laonice Malmgren, 1867

Mikac, Barbara, 2015, A sea of worms: polychaete checklist of the Adriatic Sea, Zootaxa 3943 (1), pp. 1-172 : 118

Genus Laonice Malmgren, 1867

? Laonice cirrata (M. Sars, 1851)

DISTRIBUTION: NA, CA, SA.

LITERATURE RECORDS: Gamulin-Brida et al. 1968; Bellan 1969; Orel & Mennea 1969; Zavodnik 1971; Katzmann 1973a; Amoureux 1976; Bellan 1976; Orel et al. 1982; Avčin & Vrišer 1983; Katzmann 1983; Požar- Domac 1983; Gillet 1986; Orel et al. 1987; Aleffi et al. 1988; Lardicci 1989; Požar-Domac 1994; Zahtila 1995; Crema et al. 2001; Cantone & Di Pietro 2002; Ceschia et al. 2002; Aleffi et al. 2003; Giangrande et al. 2003; Solis- Weiss et al. 2004; Simonini et al. 2005b; Zavodnik et al. 2006; Simonini et al. 2007; Solis-Weiss et al. 2007; Castelli et al. 2008.

NEW RECORDS: BM12, BM13, BM18, BM19, BM20, BM21, BM25, BM28, BM33, BM34, BM36, BM38, BM40, BM42, BM43, BM47, BM48, BM49, BM51, BM52, BM53, BM54, BM78, BM91, BM92, BM98, BM99. REMARKS: It is probable that Adriatic reports of Laonice cirrata actually refer to L. bahusiensis Söderström, 1920 (A. Sikorski, pers. comm.). According to Sikorski (2003), L. bahusiensis is distributed in the NE Atlantic including the Mediterranean Sea, while L. cirrata is not present in the Mediterranan being distributed in the circumpolar area (all the Arctic Ocean) and several areas in the Atlantic and in the Pacific Ocean. Laonice bahusiensis is extremely close to L. cirrata morphologically (the species with which was often confused and synonymized), but differs from it in several distinguishing characters ( Sikorski 2003), which, unfortunately, were not observed in the new material reported in this list. Detailed analysis of that material is currently in progress, by A. Sikorski, and until results are obtained, it is preferred to retain records of Laonice in the Adriatic Sea as L. cirrata .