Polydora ciliata (Johnston, 1838)

Faulwetter, Sarah, Simboura, Nomiki, Katsiaras, Nikolaos, Chatzigeorgiou, Giorgos & Arvanitidis, Christos, 2017, Polychaetes of Greece: an updated and annotated checklist, Biodiversity Data Journal 5, pp. 20997-20997 : 20997

Polydora ciliata (Johnston, 1838)

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Species complex. Mustaquim (1986) and Mustaquim (1988) provided behavioural (boring and tube-dwelling) and genetic evidence of two forms present under Polydora ciliata ; morphological differences between the forms are also reported. Radashevsky and Pankova (2006), regarding European material, assign the tube-dwelling form to Polydora ciliata and the boring form to Polydora calcarea (Templeton, 1836). The presence of Polydora ciliata in the Mediterranean was questioned by Çinar et al. (2005) and Dağlı et al. (2011); but see also Mikac (2015). The former authors suggest that Polydora ciliata could have been confused with Polydora cornuta Bosc, 1802 or Polydora agassizii Claparède, 1869; a Mediterranean species synonymised with Polydora ciliata by Carazzi (1893), but resurrected by Radashevsky and Hsieh (2000). Until re-examination of the Greek material is possible, these records are retained under Polydora ciliata in this checklist.