Dear colleagues,
I need help concerning the distribution of the Amphitrite johnstoni
Malmgren, 1865 in The Adriatic Sea. The species was reported few times
for the Southern Adriatic by (no description, just listed):
Požar-Domac, 1983; 1994; Giangrande (pers. comm.).
I am wandering how likely it is that the reported species is really A.
johnstoni, since on World Polychaeta Database I see that it is
distributed in the Northern Atlantic and the North sea?
http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=155107
Do you have some advice?
Couple of times I run into information that A. johnstoni is the
synonym of Neoamphitrite figulus (Dalyell, 1853), the species known
also from the Mediterranean. But I don't think that is correct, since
according to World Polychaeta Database those are two different species.
Many thanks for your help,
Barbara
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Barbara Mikac, PhD
Higher research assistant
Center for Marine Research
Ruđer Bošković Institute
Giordana Paliaga 5
52210 Rovinj
Croatia
e-mail: barbara.mikac from cim.irb.hrhttp://www.irb.hr/eng/People/Barbara-Mikac
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