Nereis jacksoni Kinberg, 1866

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 : 2295-2296

Nereis jacksoni Kinberg, 1866

Nereis jacksoni Kinberg 1866: 169 ; Fauvel 1953: 189–190, fig. 95e; Harmelin 1964: 79–81, fig. 5; Day 1967: 311, fig. 14.5n –t.

Material examined

ESFM-POL/2005-52 , 9 September 2005, I skenderun Bay, D8, 36°51′45″N, 35°55′01″ E, 10m, sand with Caulerpa prolifera , 1 specimen ; ESFM-POL/2005-21 , 10 September 2005, I skenderun Bay, D12, 36°43′37″ N, 35°42′44″ E, 9 m, muddy sand, 3 specimens ; ESFM-POL/2005-108 , 10 September 2005, I skenderun Bay, D13, 36°33′22″ N, 35°34′17″ E, 10 m, muddy sand, 3 specimens ; ESFM-POL/2005-404 , 10 September 2005, I skenderun Bay, G5, 36°43′44″ N, 35°43′39″ E, 25 m, muddy sand, 1 specimen ; ESFM-POL/2005-525 , 17 September 2005, Mersin Bay, G 7, 36°46′41″ N, 34°39′39″ E, 10 m, muddy sand, 2 specimens .

Remarks

This species is mainly characterized by having notopodial falcigers with two or three large teeth and the proboscial areas VII and VIII with a single row of paragnaths.

Distribution

This species was previously reported from the Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Red Sea and Mediterranean ( Harmelin 1964; Day 1967). In the Mediterranean, it was first found on P. oceanica near Marseille (western Mediterranean) ( Harmelin 1964). As it also occurs in the Levantine Sea (this study) and has not been reported from the eastern Atlantic, N. jacksoni might have been introduced to the Mediterranean from the Suez Canal. This species is new to the marine fauna of the Levantine Sea.