Chaetozone corona Berkeley and Berkeley 1941

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 : 2304-2305

Chaetozone corona Berkeley and Berkeley 1941

Chaetozone spinosa corona Berkeley and Berkeley 1941: 45–46 .

Chaetozone corona ; Blake 1996: 285–287, fig. 8.6; Çinar and Ergen 2007: 341–345, figs 2–4.

Material examined

ESFM-POL/05-666 , 8 September 2005, I skenderun Bay, D 1, 36°38′11″ N, 36°06′48″ E, 72 m, mud, 2 specimens ; ESFM-POL/05-762 , 10 September 2005, I skenderun Bay, D 17, 36°27′24″ N, 35°35′15″ E, 100 m, mud, 1 specimen .

Distribution

This species was known from the east Pacific, West Atlantic and Mediterranean ( Çinar and Ergen 2007). In the Mediterranean, it was first reported from Izmir Bay and its vicinity (Aegean Sea, Turkey) and considered as a cryptic species ( Çinar and Ergen 2007). It is new to the fauna of the Levantine Sea.