Hydroides dianthus (Verrill, 1873)

Faulwetter, Sarah, Simboura, Nomiki, Katsiaras, Nikolaos, Chatzigeorgiou, Giorgos & Arvanitidis, Christos, 2017, Polychaetes of Greece: an updated and annotated checklist, Biodiversity Data Journal 5, pp. 20997-20997 : 20997

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.5.e20997

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scientific name

Hydroides dianthus (Verrill, 1873)
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Notes

Species complex. Hydroides dianthus was originally described from Connecticut and long believed to be non-native in the Mediterranean ( Zibrowius 1973b, Zenetos et al. 2017). A recent study by Sun et al. (2017) shows, however, that Hydroides dianthus could originate from the Mediterranean, as the species shows the highest genetic diversity in the Mediterranean (nine out of ten haplotypes present, as opposed to only two haplotypes in the USA). The authors recovered also a putative cryptic species, Hydroides cf. dianthus , probably originating from the Gulf of Mexico and apparently recently introduced to the Black Sea.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Annelida

Class

Polychaeta

Order

Sabellida

Family

Serpulidae

Genus

Hydroides