Leonnates decipiens Fauvel, 1929

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 : 2294

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222930903094654
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BF3042-C87A-FFE0-8EC1-98A6FEBF26D6
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Leonnates decipiens Fauvel, 1929
status

Treatment

Leonnates decipiens Fauvel, 1929 View in CoL

Leonnates decipiens Fauvel 1929: 180–182 View in CoL , fig. 1; Fauvel 1953: 171–172, fig. 87; Day 1967: 330, fig. 14.11n –s; Qiu and Qian 2000: 1123–1127, figs 6, 7a,b.

Material examined

ESFM-POL/05-473 , 14 September 2005, I skenderun Bay, K 8, 1– 3 m, on rock, 1 specimen .

Distribution

This species was previously reported from the Indian Ocean, Australia, Suez Canal and Mediterranean ( Ben-Eliahu 1972; Qiu and Qian 2000). 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.