Rugalucina angela (Melvill, 1899)

Albano, Paolo G., Steger, Jan, Bakker, Piet A. J., Bogi, Cesare, Bosnjak, Marija, Guy-Haim, Tamar, Huseyinoglu, Mehmet Fatih, LaFollette, Patrick I., Lubinevsky, Hadas, Mulas, Martina, Stockinger, Martina, Azzarone, Michele & Sabelli, Bruno, 2021, Numerous new records of tropical non-indigenous species in the Eastern Mediterranean highlight the challenges of their recognition and identification, ZooKeys 1010, pp. 1-95 : 1

Rugalucina angela (Melvill, 1899)

New records.

Israel • 1 spcm, 1 v; Ashqelon; 31.6868°N, 34.5516°E; depth 11 m; 31 Oct. 2018; offshore rocky reef; suction sampler; HELM project (samples S58_2M, S58_3M).

Remarks.

This species was first recorded as Pillucina vietnamica Zorina, 1978 (now in Rugalucina too) from the Mediterranean coast of Israel by Steger et al. (2018), who also illustrated it. A recent molecular phylogeny showed that R. vietnamica is distinct from R. angela and that the non-indigenous species in the Mediterranean belongs to this latter species, which occurs in the Red Sea and northwest Indian Ocean ( Taylor and Glover 2019).