Polyphysia crassa fauveli (Laubier, 1959)

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

Polyphysia crassa fauveli (Laubier, 1959)

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Reported from Greece by Simboura (1996) as Polyphysia crassa ( Ørsted, 1843) but belonging in fact to the Mediterranean subspecies Polyphysia crassa fauveli ; Polyphysia crassa is restricted to northern Europe ( Kudenov and Blake 1978). In some unpublished datasets from Greece, the name Lipobranchus jeffreysii (McIntosh, 1869) is used. Støp-Bowitz (1945) considers Lipobranchus jeffreysii , the type of Lipobranchius , to be the juvenile of Polyphysia crassa (see also Kudenov and Blake 1978). Nevertheless, Lipobranchus jeffreysii continues to be listed in some works as a valid species (e.g. Hartmann-Schröder 1996).