Levinsenia Mesnil, 1897

Mikac, Barbara, 2015, A sea of worms: polychaete checklist of the Adriatic Sea, Zootaxa 3943 (1), pp. 1-172 : 75

Genus Levinsenia Mesnil, 1897

Levinsenia gracilis (Tauber, 1879)

DISTRIBUTION: NA, CA, SA.

LITERATURE RECORDS: Katzmann 1973a, 1973f; Katzmann & Laubier 1975; Cognetti-Varriale & Zunarelli- Vandini 1978; Avčin & Vrišer 1983; Katzmann 1983; Castelli 1987; Zavodnik & Vidaković 1987; Požar-Domac 1994; Zahtila 1995; Crema et al. 2001; Cantone & Di Pietro 2002; Aleffi et al. 2003; Simonini et al. 2004; Occhipinti-Ambrogi et al. 2005; Boscolo et al. 2006; Castelli et al. 2008; Massamba N’Siala et al. 2008; Simonini et al. 2008.

NEW RECORDS: BM12, BM13, BM17, BM20, BM21, BM22, BM25, BM26, BM27, BM28, BM34, BM37, BM38, BM39, BM40, BM46, BM47, BM48, BM49, BM50, BM52, BM53, BM54, BM55, BM61, BM62, BM63, BM64, BM65, BM66, BM74, BM79, BM92, BM96, BM97, BM98, BM99, BM101.

OTHER REPORTED NAMES: Paraonis gracilis (Tauber, 1879) ; Tauberia gracilis (Tauber, 1879) .

? Levinsenia oculata (Hartman, 1957)

DISTRIBUTION: NA.

LITERATURE RECORDS: Crema et al. 1993; Castelli et al. 2008. REMARKS: The presence of this species in the Adriatic Sea is doubtful since specimens from the NA may belong to a new, still undescribed,species ( Castelli et al. 2008).