Glycinde bonhourei Gravier, 1904

Çinar, Melih Ertan, 2009, Alien polychaete species (Annelida: Polychaeta) on the southern coast of Turkey (Levantine Sea, eastern Mediterranean), with 13 new records for the Mediterranean Sea, Journal of Natural History 43 (37 - 38), pp. 2283-2328 : 2297

Glycinde bonhourei Gravier, 1904

( Figure 3D ) Glycinde bonhourei Gravier 1904: 474 ; Böggemann 2005: 226–230, figs 132, 133.

Material examined

ESFM-POL/2005-1397 , 17 September 2005, Mersin Bay, G 11, 36°45′47″ N, 34°51′54″ E, 5 m, mud, 94 specimens .

Remarks

This species differs from the native species Glycinde nordmanni (Malmgren, 1865) by having proboscial area II-1 with unidentate papillae ( Figure 3D ) (tridentate in G. nordmanni ).

Distribution

This species is distributed in the Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean, Red Sea and Mediterranean ( Böggemann 2005). In the Mediterranean, it was first reported from the Israeli coast ( Ben-Eliahu 1972) and considered to be a Lessepsian migrant. It is new to the marine fauna of Turkey.

Figures

Figure 3. Linopherus canariensis: (A) anterior part, dorsal view (ESFM-POL/2005-2635), (B) furcate chaeta, posterior parapodium, C. furcate chaetae and serrated capillary chaetae with a long basal spur, anterior parapodium. Goniada bonhourei: (D) unidentate papillae on proboscial areas I (upper) and II-1 (lower) (ESFM-POL/2005-1397). Scale bars: (A) 0.36 mm, (B) 11 µm, (C) 18 µm, (D) 18 µm.