Leonnates persicus Wesenberg-Lund, 1949

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

Leonnates persicus Wesenberg-Lund, 1949

Leonnates persica Wesenberg-Lund 1949: 275–277 , figs 11,12; Day 1967: 328–329, fig. 14.11.g–m.

Leonnates persicus ; Qiu and Qian 2000: 1129–1133, figs 8b,c, 9a–c, 10a–e, 11a–d; Çinar et al. 2002: 812–815, figs 2,3.

Material examined

ESFM-POL/2005-242 , 9 September 2005, I skenderun Bay , G3, 36°51′8″ N, 35°55′42″ E, 25 m, mud, 4 specimens ; ESFM-POL/05-708 , 10 September 2005, I skenderun Bay , D19, 36°21′15″ N, 35°44′27″ E, 75 m, mud, 2 specimens ; ESFM- POL/05-779, 10 September 2005, I skenderun Bay , D18, 36°23′38″ N, 35°39′26″ E, 100 m, mud, 1 specimen ; ESFM-POL/2005-38 , 10 September 2005, I skenderun Bay , D15, 36°31′56″ N, 35°35′16″ E, 50 m, mud, 2 specimens ; ESFM-POL/2005- 101 , 10 September 2005, I skenderun Bay , D20, 36°20′7″ N, 35°46′56″ E, 50 m, muddy sand, 1 specimen ; ESFM-POL/2005-141 , 10 September 2005, I skenderun Bay , D16, 36°30′12″ N, 35°36′24″ E, 70 m, mud, 2 specimens ; ESFM-POL/2005- 254 , 10 September 2005, I skenderun Bay , G4, 36°44′9″ N, 35°44′32″ E, 50 m, mud, 3 specimens ; ESFM-POL/2005-384 , 10 September 2005, I skenderun Bay , G 5, 25 m, muddy sand, 36°43′44″ N, 35°43′39″ E, 1 specimen ; ESFM-POL/2005-1385 , 17 September 2005, Mersin Bay, G 8, 36°44′22″ N, 34°39′02″ E, 25 m, mud, 3 specimens ; ESFM-POL/2005-821 , 17 September 2005, Mersin Bay, D 23, 36°40′50″ N, 34°35′12″ E, 50, mud, 1 specimen ; ESFM-POL/2005-1323 , 19 September 2005, K 19, 4 m, Halophila stipulacea , 1 specimen ; ESFM-POL/2005-987 , 22 September 2005, Anamur , D27, 36°04′28″ N, 32°53′03″ E, 10 m, muddy sand, 1 specimen ; ESFM-POL/2005-1095 , 23 September 2005, Anamur , D29, 36°01′17″ N, 32°48′14″ E, 50 m, muddy sand with Caulerpa racemosa , 2 specimens ; ESFM-POL/2005- 2066 , 30 September 2005, Finike Bay , G17, 36°16′48″ N, 30°10′20″ E, 50 m, mud, 1 specimen .

Distribution

This species was previously known from the Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Red Sea and Mediterranean ( Çinar et al. 2002). In the Mediterranean Sea, it was first reported from the Israeli coast at depths ranging from 10 to 15 m by Ben-Eliahu (1991) and considered to be a Lessepsian migrant. It was also reported from the Aegean ( Çinar et al. 2002) and Levantine coasts ( Ergev et al. 2003) of Turkey.