Alitta virens (M. Sars, 1835)

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

Alitta virens (M. Sars, 1835)
status

 

Alitta virens (M. Sars, 1835) View in CoL View at ENA

Neanthes virens (M. Sars, 1835)

Notes

Questionable status. Species complex. In the Mediterranean only reported from Greece ( Christomanos and Giannitsis 1962). Distributed in the North Atlantic and North Pacific and comprising at least two cryptic species with genetic and morphological differences in these two areas ( Carr et al. 2011).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Annelida

Class

Polychaeta

Order

Phyllodocida

Family

Nereididae

Genus

Alitta