New records of Diopatra marocensis (Annelida: Onuphidae) from northern Spain

Abstract

Several recent publications have demonstrated that Diopatra neapolitana Delle Chiaje, 1841 is not the only European representative of the onuphid polychaete genus Diopatra Audouin and Milne-Edwards, 1833 as had been previously accepted: Diopatra marocensis Paxton et al., 1995, only known from its type locality, the Moroccan Atlantic coast, was reported by Rodrigues et al. (2009) as coexisting with D. neapolitana in a number of sites on the Portuguese coast; Berke et al. (2010) reported an undescribed species as D. sp. A from France; and Pires et al. (2010) described D. micrura Pires et al., 2010, bringing the number of European Diopatra species to four.