During July of 2007, a monitoring survey was conducted in a tuna farm off the south-east coast of Spain, aiming at assessing the potential impact of the facility on the bottom communities. To achieve this, several stations were selected around and below the cages and benthic samples were extracted by means of a Van Veen grab; the collected fauna was preserved and identified. As a part of the obtained material, some polychaete individuals were identified as belonging to a species never before recorded from the Mediterranean Sea, Fauveliopsis glabra. The interest of this record is twofold. First, it greatly extends the known geographical range of the species. Second, it represents the first record of the species from coastal rhodolith beds (40 m depth), whereas most of the remainder of the records were from much finer sediments and from greater depths (135–5000 m depth).
