Euphrosine Savigny

Mikac, Barbara, 2015, A sea of worms: polychaete checklist of the Adriatic Sea, Zootaxa 3943 (1), pp. 1-172 : 35-36

Genus Euphrosine Savigny in Lamarck, 1818

Euphrosine foliosa Audouin & Milne-Edwards, 1833

DISTRIBUTION: NA, CA, SA.

LITERATURE RECORDS: Lorenz 1863; Grube 1864; Stossich 1883; Carus 1884; Graeffe 1905; Vatova 1928; Fauvel 1934; Vatova 1935; Fauvel 1940; Vatova 1943; Banse 1959; Scaccini 1967; Bellan 1969; Banse 1970; Katzmann 1971; Zavodnik 1971; Katzmann 1972; Marcuzzi 1972; Katzmann 1973a; Matjašić & Štirn 1975; Velimirov & Sint 1975; Vaccarella et al. 1981; Amoureux 1983c; Avčin & Vrišer 1983; Katzmann 1983; Zavodnik et al. 1985; Belamarić & Šerman 1989; Požar-Domac 1983, 1986; Špan et al. 1989; Požar-Domac 1994; Zahtila 1995; Zavodnik & Kovačić 2000; Castelli et al. 2008.

NEW RECORDS: BM2, BM6, BM7, BM8, BM34.

OTHER REPORTED NAMES: Euphrosine mediterranea Grube 1863 ; Euphrosine audouini Marion & Bobretzky, 1874 .

? Euphrosine myrtosa Savigny in Lamarck, 1818

DISTRIBUTION: NA, CA.

LITERATURE RECORDS: Grube 1861; Lorenz 1863; Stossich 1883; Carus 1884; Požar-Domac 1994; Castelli et al. 2008.

REMARKS: Until the recent report by Castelli et al. (2008) for the CA, all previous literature reports regarded the single Grube's (1861) finding in the rocky mediolittoral of the Cres Island (NA). However, more precise data on the collecting site, supporting the distribution reported in Castelli et al. (2008), was not available. Considering this, together with the fact that the type locality of the species is the Red Sea (Gulf of Suez) ( Lamarck 1818; Day 1967), and that Grube (1861) considered his identification from Cres as uncertain, the presence of E. myrtosa in the Adriatic Sea is dubious.