Leonnates indicus 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 : 2294

Leonnates indicus Kinberg, 1866

Leonnates indicus Kinberg 1866: 168 ; Qiu and Qian 2000: 1113–1120, figs 1–3. Leonnates jousseaumi Gravier 1899: 234–237 ; Fauvel 1953: 169–170, fig. 86d–f; Day 1967: 330–331.

Material examined

ESFM-POL/2005-192 , 13 September 2005, K 6, 2 m, Sarcotragus sp. , 4 specimens ; ESFM-POL/2005-1328 , 19 September 2005, K 17, 2 m, Sarcotragus sp. , 4 specimens ; ESFM-POL/2005-1338 , 22 September 2005, K 27, 2 m, Sarcotragus sp. , 1 specimen ; ESFM-POL/2005-2425 , 3 October 2005, K 45, 2 m, Sarcotragus sp. , 1 specimen ; ESFM-POL/2005-2427 , 7 October 2005, K 53, 3 m, Sarcotragus sp. , 23 specimens .

Distribution

This species was previously reported from Australia, the Indian Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea ( Qiu and Qian 2000; Ilan et al. 1994). Ilan et al. (1994) first reported it in association with sponges collected from the Israeli coast. It is considered to be a Lessepsian migrant. It is new to the marine fauna of Turkey.