Prionospio cirrifera Wiren , 1883

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

Prionospio cirrifera Wiren, 1883

Minuspio cirrifera ( Wirén, 1883) | Prionospio (Minuspio) cirrifera Wirén, 1883 | Prionospio cirrifera Wirén, 1883

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Questionable status. Reported frequently from Greece and other parts of the Mediterranean ( Castelli et al. 2008, Zaâbi et al. 2012, Çınar et al. 2014, Mikac 2015) and considered cosmopolitan. However, Mackie (1984) re-examined European material identified as Prionospio cirrifera and found many specimens to actually belong to a species that could not be distinguished from Prionospio multibranchiata Berkeley, 1927, based on the available information at that time. Sigvaldadóttir (2002), in agreement with Mackie (1984), suggests that Prionospio cirrifera is a North Sea species and probably does not occur south of Portugal. Mackie suggested that Mediterranean specimens probably belong to other, endemic species (Mackie pers. comm. in Simboura 1996) and later, Dağlı and Çınar (2011) described Prionospio maciolekae from Mediterranean specimens. Other specimens of Prionospio cirrifera from Italy ( Giangrande and Gambi 1982) were re-examined by Dağlı and Çınar (2011) and shown to belong to the alien species Prionospio pulchra Imajima, 1990. See also remarks under Prionospio maciolekae , Prionospio multibranchiata and Prionospio pulchra .