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
3N79Y
2017609
Rioja, 1941
Rioja
1941
Polychaeta
Serpulidae
Hydroides
CoL
Animalia
Hydroides brachyacantha
Sabellida
0
20997
Annelida
species
brachyacantha
Ecological interactions Native status Non-native (casual)
Notes Species complex. Reported from Greece by Ulman et al. (2017). In the Mediterranean also known from Israel ( Ben-Eliahu 1991a), Turkey ( Cinar2006) and Spain ( Ulman et al. 2017). Probably originating from the Mexican Pacific ( Ulman et al. 2017), but the species has been shown to constitute a complex of cryptic and pseudo-cryptic species ( Bastida-Zavala and ten Hove 2003, Sun et al. 2016). The identity of Mediterranean specimens, their introduction status in the Mediterranean and the potential native range cannot be determined without molecular methods.