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
373FT
46592
Orsted, 1843
Orsted
1843
Polychaeta
Cirratulidae
Dodecaceria
CoL
Animalia
Dodecaceria concharum
Terebellida
0
20997
Annelida
species
concharum
Notes Questionable status. Castelli et al. (2008)and Mikac (2015)consider the presence of the species in the Mediterranean uncertain as it may have been confused with Dodecaceria saxicola(Grube, 1855), Dodecaceria sextentaculata(Delle Chiaje, 1822), Dodecaceria fimbriata(Verrill, 1880) or Dodecaceria joubiniGravier, 1905. Several Greek specimens were examined by P.H. Gibson and differ from the northern European species; instead, different species (e.g. Dodecaceria joubini) could be present in Greece (P.H. Gibson, pers. comm. in Simboura 1996). The identification of Dodecaceriaspecies depends on reproductive characteristics ( Gibson 1978) but it is unknown which form was described by Orsted. Thus, identity of Dodecaceria concharumis confused and Orsted'soriginal species is probably not valid due to an insufficient original description and loss of type material ( Gibson 2015). Neotypes were designated by Gibson and Heppell (1995), but it is unclear whether these correspond to the original species of Orsted.