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
6MJML
1825788
Verrill, 1873
Verrill
1873
Polychaeta
Serpulidae
Hydroides
CoL
Animalia
Hydroides dianthus
Sabellida
0
20997
Annelida
species
dianthus
Notes Species complex. Hydroides dianthuswas 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 dianthuscould 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.