Nereis persica Fauvel, 1911

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 : 2296

Nereis persica Fauvel, 1911

Nereis zonata persica ; Fauvel 1953: 187–188, fig. 95f–h

Nereis persica ; Day 1967: 314, fig. 14.6.q–v; Ben-Eliahu 1972: 219.

Material examined

ESFM-POL/2005-1399 , 17 September 2005, Mersin Bay, G 11, 36°45′47″ N, 34°51′54″ E, 5 m, mud, 7 specimens ; ESFM-POL/2005-852 , 17 September 2005, Mersin Bay, D 24, 36°38′04″ N, 34°34′23″ E, 75 m, mud, 2 specimens ; ESFM-POL/ 2005-753 , 22 September 2005, Anamur, DT 5, 36°45′54″ N, 34°51′38″ E, 5 m, mud, 94 specimens .

Remarks

Like Nereis jacksoni , it has also notopodial falcigers with two or three large teeth but mainly differs by having proboscial areas VII and VIII with three or four rows of paragnaths (single in N. jacksoni ).

Distribution

This species was previously reported from the Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean, Red Sea, Suez Canal and Mediterranean ( Day 1967; Ben-Eliahu 1972). In the Mediterranean, it was first reported from the Israeli coast by Ben-Eliahu (1972) and considered to be a Lessepsian migrant. The present study extends its distributional range to Turkey.