Kirkegaardia tesselata (Hartman, 1960)

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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scientific name

Kirkegaardia tesselata (Hartman, 1960)
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Kirkegaardia tesselata (Hartman, 1960) View in CoL

Monticellina tesselata (Hartman, 1960)

Notes

Questionable status. Reported from Greece by Koulouri et al. (2015). In the Mediterranean also reported from Spain ( Desbruyères et al. 1973) and Turkey ( Çınar et al. 2014). Çınar (2005) reports morphological differences in chaetal features between specimens from Cyprus and the original description of Kirkegaardia tesselata , concluding that the material might belong to an undescribed species. Blake (2016), having examined a specimen of Kirkegaardia from France, refers this specimen and the literature references of Monticellina tesselata by Çınar et al. (2014) and Çınar (2005) to an undescribed Kirkegaardia species ( Kirkegaardia sp. A). He restricts the distribution of Kirkegaardia tesselata to California. Greek specimens possibly do not belong to Kirkegaardia tesselata but the material would require re-examination to confirm its identity.