Pista unibranchiata Day, 1963

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 : 2312-2313

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scientific name	Pista unibranchiata Day, 1963
status

Treatment

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).

References

Cantone G. 1981. Considerazioni sul genera Pista Malmgren, 1866 (Annelida, Polychaeta), con ridescrizione di Pista unibranchiata Day, 1963. Animalia. 8: 67 - 72.

Cinar ME, Bilecenoglu M, Ozturk B, Katagan T, Aysel V. 2005. Alien species on the coasts of Turkey. Med Mar Sci. 6 / 2: 119 - 146.

Day JH. 1963. The polychaeta fauna of South Africa. Part 8: New species and records from grab samples and dredgings. Bull Br Mus (Nat Hist) Zool. 10: 381 - 445.

Day JH. 1967. A monograph on the Polychaeta of southern Africa (Part I). Br Mus (Nat Hist) Pub. 656: 1 - 459.