Pista unibranchiata Day, 1963

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 : 2312-2313

Pista unibranchiata Day, 1963

Pista unibranchiata Day 1963: 438 , fig. 11f–h; Day 1967: 737, fig. 36.7a–c; Cantone 1981: 67–70, figs 1–4.

Material examined

ESFM-POL /2005-76, 9 September 2005, I skenderun Bay, D4, 36°43′32″ N, 36°10′03″ E, 25 m, muddy sand, 7 specimens; ESFM-POL /2005-265, 9 September 2005, I skenderun Bay, G2, 36°43′19″ N, 36°09′30″ E, 50 m, mud, 1 specimen; ESFM-POL /2005-389, 15 September 2005, K10, 36°45′59″ N, 35°47′18″ E, 5 m, sand, 3 specimens; ESFM-POL /2005-878, 23 September 2005, Anamur, D28, 36°03′37″ N, 32°53′11″ E, 25 m, muddy sand with Udotea petiolata and Caulerpa prolifera , 5 specimens; ESFM-POL /2005-1435, 26 September 2005, K 34, 5 m, sand, 1 specimen; ESFM-POL /2005-1772, 30 September 2005, Finike Bay, G15, 36°17′34″ N, 30°09′33″ E, 10 m, Z. marina, 1 specimen; ESFM-POL /2005-2383, 3 October 2005, K44, 36°11′26″ N, 29°50′51″ E, 3 m, Z. marina, 16 specimens; ESFM-POL / 2005-1965, 6 October 2005, Finike Bay, G14, 36°17′46″ N, 30°09′18″ E, 5 m, Z. marina, 2 specimens.

Distribution

This species was previously reported from the Indian Ocean and Mediterranean Sea ( Day 1967; Cantone 1981), and considered as a Lessepsian migrant. It is also known from the coasts of Turkey (see Çinar et al. 2005).