Polychaetes of Greece: an updated and annotated checklist
Faulwetter, Sarah
Simboura, Nomiki
Katsiaras, Nikolaos
Chatzigeorgiou, Giorgos
Arvanitidis, Christos
Biodiversity Data Journal
2017
5
20997
20997
8578X
1242986
Gravier, 1906
Gravier
1906
Polychaeta
Terebellidae
Terebella
CoL
Animalia
Terebella ehrenbergi
Terebellida
0
20997
Annelida
species
ehrenbergi
Ecological interactions Native status Non-native (questionable)
Notes Questionable status. Reported from Greece by Arvanitidis (1994). Originally from the Red Sea, in the Mediterranean also reported from the western Mediterranean ( Peres1954), Cyprus ( Ben-Eliahu 1972b) and Israel ( Ben-Eliahu 1976b). The taxonomy of the species is confused, as two different descriptions exist in literature: Terebella ehrenbergisensu Day, 1967 and Terebella ehrenbergisensu Rullier, 1972, differing in the shape of the notochaetae (denticulated / smooth) and the number of abdominal chaetigers with notochaetae (posterior 20-40 segments without notochaetae vs. posterior 10-15 segments) ( Ben-Eliahu 1976b). Ben-Eliahu (1976b)compared material from the Israeli coasts of the Mediterranean with museum specimens from the Red Sea identified by Gravier and by Fauvel and found the former to lack calyx-type chaetae on abdominal chaetigers. However, as this may be a size-dependent character, it is currently unknown whether Mediterranean species belong to Terebella ehrenbergiGravier, 1906 or to a different species.