Potamilla torelli (Malmgren, 1866)

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

Potamilla torelli (Malmgren, 1866)

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Questionable status. Knight-Jones (1983) re-examined the specimens of Potamilla torrelli of Fauvel (1927) and referred them to Demonax brachychona ( Claparède, 1870) (now accepted as Parasabella saxicola (Grube, 1861). Thus, it is likely that all specimens under the name Potamilla torelli which were identified using Fauvel's work belong to Potamilla saxicola . Species of Demonax (now Parasabella ) were usually overlooked or misidentified during the last century due to a very narrow description of the genus, as specimens with broadly hooded inferior thoracic chaetae used to be referred to Potamilla ; consequently, records of Potamilla torelli from the Mediterranean are probably misidentifications Giangrande (1994). The presence of Potamilla torelli in the Mediterranean is furthermore doubted by Knight-Jones et al. (1991) who consider it to be distributed in Arctic regions.