Magelona F. Muller 1858
Creators: name: Mikac, Barbara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Spionida
Magelonidae
Magelona

description: Genus Magelona F. Müller, 1858
Magelona alleni Wilson, 1958
DISTRIBUTION: NA, CA, SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Gamulin-Brida et al. 1968; Bellan 1969; Zavodnik 1971; Katzmann 1972; Amoureux 1983a; Avčin & Vrišer 1983; Požar-Domac 1983; Zavodnik et al. 1985; Gillet 1986; Požar-Domac 1986; Orel et al. 1987; Zavodnik & Vidaković 1987; Špan et al. 1989; Požar-Domac 1994; Zahtila 1995, 1997; Crema et al. 2001; Ceschia et al. 2002; Aleffi et al. 2003; Solis-Weiss et al. 2004, 2007; Castelli et al. 2008; Massamba N’Siala et al. 2008.
NEW RECORDS: BM12, BM13, BM16, BM17, BM18, BM19, BM20, BM21, BM27, BM28, BM34, BM38, BM39, BM52, BM53, BM54, BM92, BM96, BM99, BM101.
Magelona equilamellae Harmelin, 1964 DISTRIBUTION: NA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Amoureux 1976.
Magelona filiformis Wilson, 1959
DISTRIBUTION: NA, CA, SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Ambrogi et al. 1987; Crema et al. 2001; Castelli et al. 2008. REMARKS: Reported for all Adriatic sectors in the polychaete checklist of the Italian seas (Castelli et al. 2008). However, more precise data on collecting sites in CA and SA not available.
Magelona minuta Eliason, 1962 DISTRIBUTION: NA, CA, SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Kiseleva 1964; Katzmann 1973a, 1983; Avčin & Vrišer 1983; Požar-Domac 1983, 1986; Aleffi et al. 1988; Špan et al. 1989; Požar-Domac 1994; Aleffi et al. 2003; Castelli et al. 2008. NEW RECORDS: BM11, BM12, BM13, BM14, BM16, BM17, BM18, BM19, BM21, BM22, BM26, BM27, BM28, BM38, BM39, BM40, BM52, BM53, BM54, BM55, BM57, BM61, BM62, BM63, BM65, BM66, BM73, BM91, BM90, BM92, BM96, BM97, BM98, BM99, BM101.
OTHER REPORTED NAMES: Magelona rosea Moore, 1907.
REMARKS: The previous records of Magelona rosea Moore, 1907 in the European waters are considered as doubtful and species was assigned to M. minuta (Eliason 1962b). This is probably also the case of Adriatic records of M. rosea which are included under M. minuta.
? Magelona papillicornis O.F. Müller, 1858
DISTRIBUTION: NA, CA, SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Fauvel 1938; Vatova 1940a; Katzmann 1972; Marcuzzi 1972; Cognetti-Varriale & Zunarelli-Vandini 1978; Ambrogi et al. 1983; Bedulli et al. 1984; Del Piero et al. 1984; Ambrogi et al. 1987, 1990; Parisi et al. 1990; Požar-Domac 1994; Solis-Weiss et al. 2004; Simonini et al. 2007.
REMARKS: The presence of Magelona papillicornis (species with type locality in Brazil) in the European waters is questionable (Fiege et al. 2000) and these records should be assigned to M. mirabilis (Johnston, 1865) and M. johnstoni Fiege, Licher & Mackie, 2000. That is most probably also the case of the Adriatic records of M. papillicornis. However, since currently it is not possible to check to which one of the two species each Adriatic record should be assigned to, it was preferred to leave them as M. papillicornis. In the future, with new findings of Magelona specimens in the region, it will be possible to have a better idea to which of the species the records may be attributed, with a higher degree of confidence.
Magelona wilsoni Glémarec, 1966
DISTRIBUTION: NA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Occhipinti-Ambrogi et al. 2005.
description: 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 50-51, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3943.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/244663