Grania postclitellochaeta ( Knöllner, 1935 )

Prantoni, Alessandro, Lana, Paulo C. & Erséus, Christer, 2017, Global checklist of species of Grania (Clitellata: Enchytraeidae) with remarks on their geographic distribution, European Journal of Taxonomy 391, pp. 1-44 : 6-7

6. Grania postclitellochaeta ( Knöllner, 1935)

Michaelsena postclitellochaeta Knöllner, 1935: 449–455 , figs 19–25, tab. 1.

Michaelsena postclitellochaeta – Hagen 1954: 12–13.

Marionina postclitellochaeta – Nielsen & Christensen 1959: 109–110, tab. 11.

Grania postclitellochaeta postclitellochaeta – Lasserre 1966: 299–300, 312–314, tabs 1–2. — Erséus 1976: 35, tab. 3. — Erséus & Lasserre 1976: 124, tab. 1.

Hemigrania postclitellochaeta – Lasserre 1971: 454–456, fig. 3c.

Grania postclitellochaeta – Kossmagk-Stephan 1983: 598. — Rota & Erséus 2003: 232–234, figs 10c–d. — van Haaren 2016: 141–143, figs 21, 23, 25–26, 57.

Type material

Not designated.

Other material

FRANCE: Bassin d’Arcachon ( SMNH 45646–45651, MCZR Oligochaeta 0116–0117); Gulf of Biscay ( MNHM AH 66–68; see Erséus & Lasserre 1976).

NORTH SEA: SMNH 45652–45654, MCZR Oligochaeta 0118.

ICELAND: Hafnafjörðdur ( SMNH 45655– 45660, MCZR Oligochaeta 0119; see Rota & Erséus 2003).

NORWAY: Tromsø ( SMNH 45661–45665, MCZR Oligochaeta 0120; see Rota & Erséus 2003); Bergen ( SMNH 107746–107749; see De Wit & Erséus 2010).

SWEDEN: Koster Islands ( SMNH 107730, 107736, 107738–107745, 108220; see De Wit & Erséus 2010).

Type locality

GERMANY: Kiel Bay.

Habitat

Intertidal, subtidal, 20–100 m in coarse shell sand, shell gravel, sometimes in brackish water (Baltic Sea), tolerating a wide range of salinity (11–35 ppt).

Distribution

Baltic Sea, Iceland (see Rota & Erséus 2003), North Sea ( Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium), France, Norway and Sweden.

Remarks

According to van Haaren (2016), it is not possible to distinguish Grania postclitellochaeta from G. occulta De Wit & Erséus, 2010 and G. ovitheca Erséus, 1977 on morphological grounds only.