Acholoe squamosa (Delle Chiaje, 1825)

Faulwetter, Sarah, Simboura, Nomiki, Katsiaras, Nikolaos, Chatzigeorgiou, Giorgos & Arvanitidis, Christos, 2017, Polychaetes of Greece: an updated and annotated checklist, Biodiversity Data Journal 5, pp. 20997-20997 : 20997

Acholoe squamosa (Delle Chiaje, 1825)

Acholoe astericola (Delle Chiaje, 1841) | Acholoe squamosa (Delle Chiaje, 1825)

Notes

Opinions on the validity of the name Acholoe squamosa are divided. Delle Chiaje (1825) described Nereis squamosa , but when he moved the species to Polynoe he used the replacement name Polynoe astericola ( Delle Chiaje 1841: 106) possibly to avoid confusion with Savigny's 1818 Polynoe squamata ( Pettibone 1996). Thus, Pettibone (1996) and Barnich and Fiege (2003) use Acholoe astericola as the valid name. However, as Savigny's species is Polynoe squamata ( Savigny 1818: 309), not squamosa and Delle Chiaje was apparently aware of this, as he uses the name squamata alongside squamosa ( Delle Chiaje 1841: 57, 106). Thus, there was no secondary homonymy and, as Nereis squamosa is an available name, there was and is no need for a replacement name. Therefore, we here consider Acholoe squamosa to be the valid name (see also WoRMS for additional information). Reported from Greece by Arvanitidis (1994). Type locality: Mediterranean (Gulf of Naples).