Terebellides M. Sars, 1835

Mikac, Barbara, 2015, A sea of worms: polychaete checklist of the Adriatic Sea, Zootaxa 3943 (1), pp. 1-172 : 146-147

Genus Terebellides M. Sars, 1835

Terebellides gracilis (Malm, 1874) DISTRIBUTION: NA.

LITERATURE RECORDS: Parapar et al. 2013. NEW RECORDS: BM52, BM53.

* Terebellides mediterranea Parapar, Mikac & Fiege, 2013 DISTRIBUTION: NA.

LITERATURE RECORDS: Parapar et al. 2013. NEW RECORDS: BM52.

Terebellides stroemii M. Sars, 1835 DISTRIBUTION: NA, CA, SA.

LITERATURE RECORDS: Grube 1864; Stossich 1883; Carus 1884; Brusina 1896; Graeffe 1905; Leidenfrost 1908; Vatova 1928, 1931a; Fauvel 1934; Vatova 1934, 1935; Fauvel 1940; Vatova 1942, 1943, 1949a; Meštrov 1957; Banse 1959; Kiseleva 1964; Scaccini 1967; Gamulin-Brida et al. 1968; Bellan 1969; Orel & Mennea 1969; Banse 1970; Zavodnik 1971; Marcuzzi 1972; Katzmann 1972, 1973a, 1973b, 1973f; Avčin et al. 1974; Gamulin-Brida 1974; Matjašić & Štirn 1975; Amoureux 1976; Bellan 1976; Cognetti-Varriale & Zunarelli-Vandini 1978; Zavodnik et al. 1978; Amoureux 1979; Zavodnik 1979; Zavodnik et al. 1981; Amoureux 1983a, 1983c; Avčin & Vrišer 1983; Fassari 1983; Katzmann 1983; Požar-Domac 1983; Del Piero et al. 1984; Stjepčević et al. 1984; Zavodnik et al. 1985; Gillet 1986; Zavodnik & Vidaković 1987; Aleffi et al. 1988; Županović & Jardas 1989; Požar-Domac 1994; Zahtila 1995, 1997; Zavodnik & Kovačić 2000; Crema et al. 2001; Cantone & Di Pietro 2002; Ceschia et al. 2002; Aleffi et al. 2003; Solis-Weiss et al. 2004; Boscolo et al. 2006; Zavodnik et al. 2006; Simonini et al. 2007; Solis-Weiss et al. 2007; Castelli et al. 2008; Mikac et al. 2011; Musco et al. 2011; Parapar et al. 2013. NEW RECORDS: BM11, BM12, BM13, BM17, BM20, BM21, BM22, BM26, BM27, BM28, BM38, BM39, BM40, BM42, BM43, BM52, BM53, BM54, BM61, BM63, BM64, BM65, BM66, BM91.

REMARKS: Until recently the only species of Terebellides reported for the Mediterranean Sea was T. stroemii . However, recent research in the NA ( Parapar et al. 2013) revealed two more species to be present, T. gracilis (Malm, 1874) and a newly described species T. mediterranea Parapar, Mikac & Fiege, 2013 . All former records of T. stroemii in the Adriatic need to be reviewed as some of them may belong to other species of Terebellides . Parapar & Hutchings (2014) described a neotype of T. stroemii from Norway; they performed a comparative study of the morphological characteristics of T. stroemii from several recent descriptions in the north-east Atlantic (including the one from the Adriatic Sea by Parapar et al. 2013) and observed slight differences among them, suggesting that several cryptic species are present. These species are difficult to be identified using only a traditional morphological study of external characters, thus molecular methodologies will have to be performed.