Onuphis eremita Audouin & Milne Edwards, 1833

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

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.5.e20997

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scientific name

Onuphis eremita Audouin & Milne Edwards, 1833
status

 

Onuphis eremita Audouin & Milne Edwards, 1833 View in CoL View at ENA

Notes

Species complex. Frequently reported from Greece and other parts of the Mediterranean (e.g. Campoy 1982, Castelli et al. 2008, Ayari et al. 2009, Çınar et al. 2014, Mikac 2015) and considered cosmopolitan. However, the taxonomic history of the species includes doubtful synonymies, vague descriptions and redescriptions based on material from worldwide locations ( Arias and Paxton 2014). The latter authors redefine the diagnostic characters, designate a neotype and confine its distribution to the East Atlantic and the Western and Central Mediterranean. In addition, they re-instate and re-describe Onuphis pancerii Claparède, 1868 from the Onuphis eremita complex and designate a neotype from Italy. Re-examination of specimens is required to determine the status of records of Onuphis eremita and possible other species of the complex in Greece.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Annelida

Class

Polychaeta

Order

Eunicida

Family

Onuphidae

Genus

Onuphis