Eunice floridana ( Pourtales , 1867)

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

Eunice floridana ( Pourtales, 1867)

Ecological interactions

Native status

Non-native (questionable)

Notes

Questionable status. Reported from Greece by Kisseleva (1983). In the Mediterranean also known from the western basin (e.g. Bellan 1959, Fredj 1974), Cyprus ( Argyrou et al. 1999) and the Adriatic ( Casellato and Stefanon 2008). Otherwise distributed in the Greater Caribbean ( Fauchald et al. 2009). Commonly occurs in coralligenous habitats ( Casellato and Stefanon 2008), which are little studied in Greece. However, no clear description based on Mediterranean material exists. Fauvel (1923), considers Leodice gunneri (Storm, 1880) a synonym of Eunice floridana . Day (1967) lists Eunice floridana sensu Fauvel (1923) as a synonym of Eunice norvegica (Linnaeus, 1767) and Fauchald (1992) considers Leodice gunneri a synonym of the latter. Clear differentiating characters between Eunice floridana and Eunice norvegica can be found in Fauchald (1992) and Carrera-Parra and Salazar-Vallejo (1998) (which were, however, not published at the time the species was recorded from Greece).