Ophiactis savignyi Muller & Troschel 1842
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Ophiactis savignyi (Müller & Troschel, 1842)
Material examined. ESFM-ECH/ 2005-13, 14.9.2005, Iskenderun Bay, K9, 0.1–3 m, on port’s pile, 5 specimens; ESFM-ECH/ 2005-14, 10.9.2005, Iskenderun Bay, G5, 25 m, muddy sand, 1 specimen.
Distribution. In the Mediterranean Sea, O. savignyi was first reported from the Israeli coast in 1953 and subsequently from the Lebanon coast in 1965 (Galil 2006). A dense population of this species was found in association with the sponge Sarcotragus muscarum Schmidt, 1864 in Marmaris (south Aegean Sea) (Çinar & Ergen 1998; Çinar et al. 2002). It was regarded as an invasive Lessepsian migrant that dramatically changes zoobenthic communities prevailing within sponges (Çinar et al. 2002). The species has a tropicopolitan distribution, but Mladenov & Emson (1990) found large genetic diffferences between sponge- and algaedwelling populations, suggesting that O. savignyi may be a species complex.
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- Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.195488 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFB2FFCB84667A5AFFDFF061E071FFF2 (URL)
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- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/038B87B3846F7A53FF48F14CE46BFD48 (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/119386830 (URL)
- https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/48148/taxon/038B87B3846F7A53FF48F14CE46BFD48.taxon (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Muller & Troschel
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Echinodermata
- Order
- Ophiurida
- Family
- Ophiactidae
- Genus
- Ophiactis
- Species
- savignyi
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Ophiactis savignyi Muller, 1842 sec. Stöhr, Çinar & Dagli, 2010
References
- Muller, J. H. & Troschel, F. H. (1842) System der Asteriden. Vieweg, Braunschweig, 134 p.
- Galil, B. (2006) The marine caravan - the Suez Canal and the Erythrean invasion. Bridging Divides: Maritime Canals as Invasion Corridors. Monographiae Biologicae. Springer, Berlin and Heidelberg, pp. 207 - 300.
- Schmidt, O. (1864) Supplement der Spongien des Adriatischen Meeres. Enthaltend die Histologie und Systematische Erganzunghen. Engelmann, Leipzig.
- Cinar, M. E. & Ergen, Z. (1998) Polychaetes associated with the sponge Sarcotragus muscarum Schmidt, 1864 from the Turkish Aegean coast. Ophelia, 48, 167 - 183.
- Cinar, M. E., Katagan, T., Ergen, Z. & Sezgin, M. (2002) Zoobenthos-inhabiting Sarcotragus muscarum (Porifera: Demospongia) from the Aegean Sea. Hydrobiologia, 482, 107 - 117.
- Mladenov, P. V. & Emson, R. H. (1990) Genetic structure of populations of two closely related brittle stars with contrasting sexual and asexual life histories, with observations on the genetic structure of a second asexual species. Marine Biology, 104, 265 - 274.