Alien polychaete species (Annelida: Polychaeta) on the southern coast of Turkey (Levantine Sea, eastern Mediterranean), with 13 new records for the Mediterranean Sea
Author
Çinar, Melih Ertan
text
Journal of Natural History
2009
2009-09-11
43
37 - 38
2283
2328
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222930903094654
journal article
10.1080/00222930903094654
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Pista unibranchiata
Day, 1963
Pista unibranchiata
Day 1963: 438
, fig. 11f–h;
Day 1967: 737
, fig. 36.7a–c;
Cantone 1981: 67–70
, figs 1–4.
Material examined
ESFM-POL
/2005-76,
9 September 2005
,
I
skenderun Bay, D4,
36°43′32″ N
,
36°10′03″ E
,
25 m
, muddy sand,
7 specimens
;
ESFM-POL
/2005-265,
9 September 2005
,
I
skenderun Bay, G2,
36°43′19″ N
,
36°09′30″ E
,
50 m
, mud,
1 specimen
;
ESFM-POL
/2005-389,
15 September 2005
, K10,
36°45′59″ N
,
35°47′18″ E
,
5 m
, sand,
3 specimens
;
ESFM-POL
/2005-878,
23 September 2005
, Anamur, D28,
36°03′37″ N
,
32°53′11″ E
,
25 m
, muddy sand with
Udotea petiolata
and
Caulerpa prolifera
,
5 specimens
;
ESFM-POL
/2005-1435,
26 September 2005
, K
34, 5 m
, sand,
1 specimen
;
ESFM-POL
/2005-1772,
30 September 2005
, Finike Bay, G15,
36°17′34″ N
,
30°09′33″ E
,
10 m
,
Z. marina
,
1 specimen
;
ESFM-POL
/2005-2383,
3 October 2005
, K44,
36°11′26″ N
,
29°50′51″ E
,
3 m
,
Z. marina
,
16 specimens
;
ESFM-POL
/ 2005-1965,
6 October 2005
, Finike Bay, G14,
36°17′46″ N
,
30°09′18″ E
,
5 m
,
Z. marina
,
2 specimens
.
Distribution
This species was previously reported from the Indian Ocean and Mediterranean Sea (
Day 1967
;
Cantone 1981
), and considered as a Lessepsian migrant. It is also known from the coasts of
Turkey
(see
Çinar et al. 2005
).