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
67KS7
2803289
Southern, 1914
Southern
1914
Polychaeta
Spionidae
Aonides
CoL
Animalia
Aonides paucibranchiata
Spionida
0
20997
Annelida
species
paucibranchiata
Notes Identifications of Greek specimens are based on descriptions of Fauvel (1927)and may have been easily confused with Aonides oxycephala(Sars, 1862) or other similar species. According to a note in Fauvel (1927), this small sized species could be a juvenile form of Aonides oxycephala, differing from it mainly by the smaller size, the number of gills and the smaller sized pygidial cirri, while the tridentate ventral hooks could be in fact a post-larval character, frequently observed in the Spionidae. Besides, the number of branchiae and the range of the ventral hooks may follow an intraspecific variation ( Ramos 1976a, Johnson 1984and personal observations from Greek material). According to F. Gravina and A. Somaschini (pers. comm.), it is a rare species.