Polychaetes of Greece: an updated and annotated checklist
Author
Faulwetter, Sarah
Author
Simboura, Nomiki
Author
Katsiaras, Nikolaos
Author
Chatzigeorgiou, Giorgos
Author
Arvanitidis, Christos
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Biodiversity Data Journal
2017
5
20997
20997
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.5.e20997
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.5.e20997
1314-2828--20997
Eurythoe complanata (Pallas, 1766)
Ecological interactions
Native status
Non-native (casual)
Notes
Species complex. Reported from Greece by
Chatzigeorgiou et al. (2016)
based on a single specimen (identified using
Day (1967)
and
Barroso et al. (2010)
).
Eurythoe complanata
is a complex of cryptic and pseudo-cryptic species (
Barroso et al. 2010
,
Arias et al. 2013a
), containing two cryptic forms of
Eurythoe complanata
and the species
Eurythoe laevisetis
Fauvel, 1914, which differs from
Eurythoe complanata
sensu stricto by the absence of harpoon-shaped notochaetae (
Arias et al. 2013a
). In the Mediterranean, two of the species in this species complex occur:
Eurythoe laevisetis
in the central and western basin, and
Eurythoe complanata
in the eastern basin and the Alboran Sea. Both species are native to the Caribbean and tropical Atlantic and non-native to the Mediterranean, but their exact pathways of introduction to the Mediterranean and thus the identity of the species occurring in the eastern basin are yet unknown (
Arias et al. 2013a
).