Polychaetes of Greece: an updated and annotated checklist
Author
Faulwetter, Sarah
Author
Simboura, Nomiki
Author
Katsiaras, Nikolaos
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Chatzigeorgiou, Giorgos
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Arvanitidis, Christos
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Biodiversity Data Journal
2017
5
20997
20997
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.5.e20997
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.5.e20997
1314-2828--20997
Hydroides norvegica Gunnerus, 1768
Notes
Zibrowius (1971)
shows that the non-native species
Hydroides elegans
(Haswell, 1883) has replaced
Hydroides norvegica
in harbour fouling communities of the Mediterranean and that
Hydroides norvegica
is restricted to deeper waters.
ten Hove and Kupriyanova (2009)
suggest that all (sub)tropical records of
Hydroides norvegica
should be attributed to
Hydroides elegans
. In Greece,
Hydroides norvegica
has been reported both from harbour and shallow coastal communities as well as from deep waters below 500 m (e.g.
Tselepides 1992
). Its presence in the port of Heraklion and other Mediterranean ports has been recently confirmed (
Ulman et al. 2017
).