Poecilochaetus Claparède

Mikac, Barbara, 2015, A sea of worms: polychaete checklist of the Adriatic Sea, Zootaxa 3943 (1), pp. 1-172 : 87

Genus Poecilochaetus Claparède in Ehlers, 1875

Poecilochaetus fauchaldi Pilato & Cantone, 1976

DISTRIBUTION: NA, CA, SA.

LITERATURE RECORDS: Cantone 1989; Požar-Domac 1994; Crema et al. 2001; Cantone & Di Pietro 2002; Simonini et al. 2005a, 2007; Castelli et al. 2008; Mikac et al. 2011.

NEW RECORDS: BM11, BM12, BM13, BM15, BM16, BM18, BM20, BM22, BM27, BM28, BM30, BM31, BM33, BM34, BM36, BM37, BM38, BM39, BM40, BM45, BM47, BM48, BM49, BM50, BM51, BM52, BM53, BM54, BM56, BM65, BM91, BM92, BM96, BM98, BM99, BM100.

®? Poecilochaetus modestus Rullier, 1965

DISTRIBUTION: NA.

NEW RECORDS: BM53.

REMARKS: This is the first record from the Adriatic Sea. However, identification is uncertain and in need of confirmation. This species is distributed along the Atlantic coast of central Africa ( Togo, the type locality, and Ivory Coast) ( Rullier 1965; Intes & Le Loeuff 1975).

DEPOSITED MATERIAL: BM53, 0 1.10.2003., 1 spec. (PMR-17633).

Poecilochaetus serpens Allen, 1904

DISTRIBUTION: NA, CA, SA.

LITERATURE RECORDS: Banse 1959; Katzmann 1972, 1973a; Amoureux 1976, 1979; Zavodnik 1979; Amoureux 1983a; Avèin & Vrišer 1983; Katzmann 1983; Bedulli et al. 1984; Del Piero et al. 1984; Gillet 1986; Ambrogi et al. 1987; Orel et al. 1987; Zavodnik & Vidaković 1987; Aleffi et al. 1988; Orel 1988; Cantone 1989; Požar-Domac 1994; Zahtila 1995, 1997; Cantone & Di Pietro 2002; Ceschia et al. 2002; Aleffi et al. 2003; Solis-Weiss et al. 2004; Zavodnik et al. 2006; Solis-Weiss et al. 2007; Castelli et al. 2008.

NEW RECORDS: BM41, BM42, BM43, BM52, BM53, BM54.