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The phylum Sipuncula in the eastern Mediterranean: composition, ecology, zoogeography

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1999

G.V.V. Murina ,
M.A. Pancucci-Papadopoulou  and
A. Zenetos
G.V.V. Murina
Affiliation:
Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas, Academy of Sciences, 335000 Sevastopol, Ukraine
M.A. Pancucci-Papadopoulou
Affiliation:
National Centre for Marine Research, 166 04—Hellenikon, Hellas, Greece
A. Zenetos
Affiliation:
National Centre for Marine Research, 166 04—Hellenikon, Hellas, Greece
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Abstract

The bibliography concerning the Mediterranean Sipuncula is reviewed, particularly that from the eastern Mediterranean. Additional data are provided from macrobenthic samples collected between 1974 and 1997 in the Hellenic waters. A total of 17 species are recorded, five of which (Sipunculus norvegicus, Golfingia elongata, Nephasoma lilljeborgi, Thysanocardiacatharinae and Aspidosiphon (Akrikos) mexicanus) are reported for the first time in Hellenic waters. Three more species (Onchnesoma squamatum squamatum, Aspidosiphon (Aspidosiphon) elegans, Apionsoma (Apionsoma) trichocephalus) which are found exclusively in the extreme eastern basin (Israel, Egypt) raises the number of eastern Mediterranean Sipuncula species to twenty.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 79 , Issue 5 , October 1999 , pp. 821 - 830
Copyright
© 1999 Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

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