Axionice medusa (Savigny in Lamarck, 1818)

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

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.5.e20997

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scientific name

Axionice medusa (Savigny in Lamarck, 1818)
status

 

Axionice medusa (Savigny in Lamarck, 1818)

Loimia medusa (Savigny in Lamarck, 1818)

Ecological interactions

Native status

Non-native (established)

Notes

Considered a species complex by several authors (e.g. Hutchings and Glasby 1995). Originally described from the Red Sea, considered established in the Mediterranean Sea ( Zenetos et al. 2017). The genus Loimia Malmgren, 1866 is considered a synonym of Axionice Malmgren, 1866 by Jirkov and Leontovich (2017), but see remarks under Axionice conchilega , which apply also to Loimia .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Annelida

Class

Polychaeta

Order

Terebellida

Family

Terebellidae

Genus

Axionice