Chavania erythraea (Issel, 1869)

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

Chavania erythraea (Issel, 1869) Figure 39

New records.

Israel • 1 spcm; Palmachim; 31.9292°N, 34.6405°E; depth 36.9 m; 29 May 2004; soft substrate; grab; NM project (station 19); size: L 3.2 mm, H 3.2 mm.

Remarks.

We report a juvenile but living individual of Chavania erythraea , a lucinid occurring in the Red Sea, the Persian (Arabian) Gulf and the Arabian Sea ( Glover and Taylor 2001). This is the first record of this species from the Mediterranean Sea. Adults develop a commarginal lamellar sculpture.

Figures

Figure 39. Chavania erythraea (Issel, 1869), Palmachim, Israel, NM project (station 19): right valve inner (A, D) and left valve outer (B, E) views, hinge of right (C) and left (F) valve. The pink hue is due to staining with eosin solution. Scale bars: 1 mm (A, B, D, E); 0.5 mm (C, F).