Megalomma Johansson, 1927

Mikac, Barbara, 2015, A sea of worms: polychaete checklist of the Adriatic Sea, Zootaxa 3943 (1), pp. 1-172 : 99

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3943.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:F0189376-A088-455F-9571-5B759547F589

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6117855

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DD87AF-FFD9-FFB4-488D-60B02F39F8C3

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scientific name

Megalomma Johansson, 1927
status

 

Genus Megalomma Johansson, 1927 View in CoL

(AL) Megalomma claparedei (Gravier, 1908)

DISTRIBUTION: SA.

LITERATURE RECORDS: Castelli et al. 2008; Giangrande & Licciano 2008. REMARKS: Alien species originated from the Red Sea (Lessepsian migrant) ( Zenetos et al. 2010). The only record of this species in the Mediterranean Sea is from the SA, along the coast of Apulia (Giangrande & Licciano 2008).

Megalomma lanigera (Grube 1846)

DISTRIBUTION: NA, CA, SA.

LITERATURE RECORDS: Graeffe 1905; Vatova 1931b; Fauvel 1934; Vatova 1935; Fauvel 1938, 1940; Vatova 1940a, 1949b; Banse 1959; Laubier 1962; Bellan 1969; Orel & Mennea 1969; Banse 1970; Amoureux & Katzmann 1971; Zavodnik 1971; Marcuzzi 1972; Katzmann 1973a; Giordani-Soika & Perin 1974; Matjašić & Štirn 1975; Amoureux 1983a; Katzmann 1983; Aleffi et al. 1988; Giangrande 1989; Požar-Domac 1994; Zahtilla, 1995; Maggiore 2002; Aleffi et al. 2003; Giangrande et al. 2004; Prevedelli et al. 2007; Solis-Weiss et al. 2007; Castelli et al. 2008; Giangrande & Licciano 2008; Mikac et al. 2013.

NEW RECORDS: BM44, BM46, BM47, BM49, BM51, BM65, BM66.

OTHER REPORTED NAMES: Branchiomma vesiculosum (Montagu, 1815) ; Megalomma vesiculosum (Montagu, 1815) ; Branchiomma köllikeri Claparède, 1869 .

REMARKS: All previous records of Megalomma vesiculosum (Montagu, 1815) in the Mediterranean are now assigned to M. lanigera (Giangrande & Licciano 2008) .

* Megalomma messapicum Giangrande & Licciano, 2008 DISTRIBUTION: SA.

LITERATURE RECORDS: Castelli et al. 2008; Giangrande & Licciano 2008.

* Megalomma pseudogesae View in CoL Mikac, Giangrande & Licciano, 2013 DISTRIBUTION: NA.

LITERATURE RECORDS: Mikac et al. 2013.

REMARKS: The species is so far only known from two soft bottom stations in the NA.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Annelida

Class

Polychaeta

Order

Sabellida

Family

Sabellidae

Loc

Megalomma Johansson, 1927

Mikac, Barbara 2015
2015
Loc

Megalomma pseudogesae

Mikac, Giangrande & Licciano 2013
2013
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