Notomastus aberans Day, 1957

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 : 2311-2312

Notomastus aberans Day, 1957

Notomastus aberans Day 1957: 105 , fig. 7a,b; Day 1967: 599, fig. 28.1.m–q; Harmelin 1968: 254, figs 1–5.

Material examined

ESFM-POL /05-323, 8 September 2005, I skenderun Bay, D3, 36°36′38″ N, 36°10′51″ E, 25 m, mud, 2 specimens; ESFM-POL /2005-257, 9 September 2005, I skenderun Bay, G2, 36°43′19″ N, 36°09′30″ E, 50 m, mud, 1 specimen; ESFM- POL/05-702, 10 September 2005, I skenderun Bay, D19, 36°21′15″ N, 35°44′27″ E, 75 m, mud, 1 specimen; ESFM-POL /2005-28, 10 September 2005, I skenderun Bay, D15, 36°31′56″ N, 35°35′16″ E, 50 m, mud, 3 specimens; ESFM-POL /2005- 252, 10 September 2005, I skenderun Bay, G4, 36°44′09″ N, 35°44′32″ E, 50 m, mud, 1 specimen; ESFM-POL /2005-1382, 17 September 2005, Mersin Bay, G8, 36°44′22″ N, 34°39′02″ E, 25 m, mud, 8 specimens; ESFM-POL /2005-823, 17 September 2005, Mersin Bay, D23, 36°40′50″ N, 34°35′12″ E, 50 m, mud, 1 specimen; ESFM-POL /2005-882, 23 September 2005, Anamur, D28, 36°03′37″ N, 32°53′11″ E, 25 m, muddy sand with Udotea petiolata and Caulerpa prolifera , 1 specimen; ESFM-POL /2005-1624, 27 September 2005, Antalya Bay, G12, 36°50′17″ N, 30°36′31″ E, 10 m, mud, 1 specimen; ESFM-POL /2005-2403, 29 September 2005, Antalya Bay, K 37, 3 m, Z. marina, 3 specimens; ESFM-POL / 2005-1862, 30 September 2005, Finike Bay, G18, 36°16′31″ N, 30°10′50″ E, 75 m, mud, 1 specimen; ESFM-POL /2005-1515, 5 October 2005, Fethiye Bay, K 50, 5 m, muddy sand, 7 specimens; ESFM-POL /2005-1538, 6 October 2005, Fethiye Bay, G28, 36°37′48″ N, 29°06′30″ E, 10 m, mud, 2 specimens; ESFM-POL /2005- 1929, 6 October 2005, Fethiye By, G30, 36°39′24″ N, 29°04′44″ E, 50 m, sandy mud, 5 specimens; ESFM-POL /2005-1956, 6 October 2005, Fethiye Bay, G29, 36°39′29″ N, 29°06′02″ E, 25 m, sandy mud, 4 specimens; ESFM-POL /2005-2002, 6 October 2005, Fethiye Bay, G31, 36°38′56″ N, 29°03′38″ E, 75 m, muddy sand, 4 specimens.

Distribution

This species is distributed from the Indian Ocean and Red Sea ( Day 1957; Wehe and Fiege 2002). It was first found in the eastern (on Halophila stipulacea meadow near Crete Island) and western Mediterranean (on soft substrate near Marseille) by Harmelin (1968), and considered as a Lessepsian migrant. It is also known from the Aegean and Levantine coasts of Turkey ( Önen 1983; Mutlu and Ergev 2008).