Polychaetes of Greece: an updated and annotated checklist
Author
Faulwetter, Sarah
Author
Simboura, Nomiki
Author
Katsiaras, Nikolaos
Author
Chatzigeorgiou, Giorgos
Author
Arvanitidis, Christos
text
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
Eunice aphroditois (Pallas, 1788)
Notes
Questionable status.
Fauvel (1923)
recorded
Eunice roussaei
Quatrefages, 1866 in the Adriatic Sea, but the species was later synonymised with
Eunice aphroditoi
s by
Hartman (1944)
. Subsequently, several records of large-sized eunicids in the Mediterranean were assigned to the latter. After the resurrection of
Eunice roussaei
by
Fauchald (1992)
, many authors suggested that literature records of
Eunice aphroditois
in the Mediterranean actually belong to
Eunice roussaei
(
Parapar and Harto 2001
,
Zanol and Bettoso 2006
,
Cinar
et al. 2014
,
Mikac 2015
). Two specimens of
Eunice aphroditois
from the collections of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki were re-examined by the first author and identified as
Eunice roussaei
(
Faulwetter et al. 2013
); it is likely that all Greek records belong to
Eunice roussaei
.