Dikoleps micalii Agamennone, Sbrana, Nardi, Siragusa & Germana , 2020

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

Dikoleps micalii Agamennone, Sbrana, Nardi, Siragusa & Germana, 2020 Figure 2

New records.

Israel • 4 spcms; Haifa Bay; 32.8211°N, 35.0196°E; depth 11 m; 2 Aug. 2015; soft substrate; grab; NM project (samples HM27(a) and HM27(c)); size of largest specimen: H 0.7 mm, W 0.7 mm.

Remarks.

This species has been recently described from sediment collected in 2016 at 33-45 m depth at Karpathos and Samos islands in the eastern Aegean Sea ( Agamennone et al. 2020b). The authors discussed but declined the possibility that this is a Lessepsian species, but one of us (BS) observed non-distinguishable specimens from the Red Sea and we received reports of further indistinguishable specimens from the Persian (Arabian) Gulf (H. Dekker, pers. comm., November 2020). This is the first record for Israel; all specimens were live collected.

Figures

Figure 2. Dikoleps micalii Agamennone, Sbrana, Nardi, Siragusa & Germana, 2020, Haifa Bay, Israel: front (A) and apical (B) views, umbilicus (C), microsculpture of body whorl (D), apical view of protoconch (E) and microsculpture of the base (F). Photograph courtesy A. Bonfitto. Scale bars: 0.2 mm (A-C); 0.05 mm (D-F).