Polychaetes of Greece: an updated and annotated checklist
Author
Faulwetter, Sarah
Author
Simboura, Nomiki
Author
Katsiaras, Nikolaos
Author
Chatzigeorgiou, Giorgos
Author
Arvanitidis, Christos
text
Biodiversity Data Journal
2017
5
20997
20997
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.5.e20997
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.5.e20997
1314-2828--20997
Hydroides dianthus (Verrill, 1873)
Notes
Species complex.
Hydroides dianthus
was 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 dianthus
could 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.