Sabellaria Lamarck, 1818

Mikac, Barbara, 2015, A sea of worms: polychaete checklist of the Adriatic Sea, Zootaxa 3943 (1), pp. 1-172 : 94

Genus Sabellaria Lamarck, 1818

Sabellaria alveolata (Linnaeus, 1767)

DISTRIBUTION: NA, SA.

LITERATURE RECORDS: Fraschetti et al. 2002; Giangrande et al. 2003; Casellato et al. 2007; Casellato & Stefanon 2008.

Sabellaria spinulosa Leuckart, 1849

DISTRIBUTION: NA, CA, SA.

LITERATURE RECORDS: Amoureux 1976; Vaccarella et al. 1981; Mizzan 2000; Fabi et al. 2001; Simonini et al. 2007; Castelli et al. 2008; Ponti et al. 2010; Lezzi et al. 2015.

NEW RECORDS: BM11, BM74, BM91.

OTHER REPORTED NAMES: Sabellaria spinulosa alcocki Gravier, 1906 ; Sabellaria alcocki Gravier, 1906 . REMARKS: Recent analyses ( Lezzi et al. 2015) suggest that Sabellaria alcocki Gravier, 1906 , species described for the Indian Ocean and reported in the Mediterranean including the Adriatic Sea ( Amoureux 1976; Castelli et al. 2008), should not be present in the Mediterranean area. Records probably correspond to specimens of S. spinulosa at different stages of development.