Aricidea (Acmira) lopezi Berkeley & Berkeley, 1956

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

Aricidea (Acmira) lopezi Berkeley & Berkeley, 1956

Aricidea fauveli Hartman, 1957| Aricidea lopezi lopezi Berkeley & Berkeley, 1956

Notes

Questionable status. Records from Greece exist almost exclusively under the name Aricidea fauveli , despite the fact that they were recorded after Strelzov (1973) had synonymised the two species. It is therefore likely that they were identified using the key by Day (1967) which only includes Aricidea fauveli . Castelli (1987) attributes several Mediterranean records of Aricidea lopezi to Aricidea (Acmira) assimilis Tebble, 1959, which he considers synonymous with Aricidea fauveli . In the Mediterranean, Aricidea lopezi / Aricidea fauveli used to be distinguished from Aricidea assimilis on the basis of the length of the antenna (short in Aricidea lopezi , long in Aricidea assimilis ) but molecular analyses by Langeneck (2017) revealed two clades related to depth which were incongruent with the two different morphotypes. It is therefore likely that Mediterranean specimens of Aricidea (Acmira) lopezi belong to different species.