Micronephthys Friedrich 1939

Genus Micronephthys Friedrich, 1939 ? Micronephthys sphaerocirrata (Wesenberg-Lund, 1949) DISTRIBUTION: NA, CA. LITERATURE RECORDS: Cognetti-Varriale & Zunarelli-Vandini 1978; Crema et al. 2001; Simonini et al. 2004, 2007, 2008; Castelli et al. 2008. OTHER REPORTED NAMES: Nephthys sphaerocirrata Wesenberg-Lund, 1949. REMARKS: Ravara et al. (2010) consider that presence of M. sphaerocirrata in the Mediterranean Sea needs further confirmation. The records of M. sphaerocirrata in the Adriatic Sea may refer to M. stammeri (Augener 1932) (A. Castelli, pers. comm.). * Micronephthys stammeri (Augener, 1932) DISTRIBUTION: NA, CA, SA. LITERATURE RECORDS: Augener 1932; Banse 1959; Katzmann 1972, 1973a, 1983; Amoureux 1983 b; Fassari 1983; Ambrogi et al. 1987; Požar-Domac 1994; Cantone & Di Pietro 2002; Ravara et al. 2010. NEW RECORDS: BM 11, BM 12, BM 14, BM 15, BM 16, BM 17, BM 18, BM 19, BM 20, BM 21, BM 28, BM 34, BM 53, BM 54, BM 73, BM 91, BM 98, BM 99. OTHER REPORTED NAMES: Nephtys stammeri (Augener, 1932); Micronephthys maryae San Martin, 1982.Published as part of Mikac, Barbara, 2015, A sea of worms: polychaete checklist of the Adriatic Sea, pp. 1-172 in Zootaxa 3943 (1) on pages 56-57, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3943.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/24466