Polychaeta taxon details
original description
Putignano, Matteo; Toso, Andrea; Fumarola, Lara Marastella; Dimichele, Desirèe; Bariche, Michel; Giangrande, Adriana; Musco, Luigi; Piraino, Stefano; Langeneck, Joachim. (2026). To be or not to be alien, that is the question: the case of five new polychaete species from the Levantine Sea. <em>Mediterranean Marine Science.</em> 27(2): 330-356., available online at https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/hcmr-med-mar-sc/article/view/42046 page(s): 340, figures 4-5; note: Holotype SMF 33452, Tyre, Levantine Sea, 33.2754 N, 35.1955 E, 0-5 m depth, artificial wall with corallines and vermetids. [details] Available for editors [request]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype SMF 33452, geounit Levantine Sea [details]
From editor or global species database
Distribution Putignano et al. (2026) suggest the hypothesis of a Lessepsian origin of Pseudobranchiomma tilici
in the Mediterranean Sea as the authors found a specimen in sabellid samples from the Red Sea. [details]
Etymology Pseudobranchiomma tilici is named after Ekin Tilic, curator for the polychaete collection of the Senckenberg
Museum. Masculine genitive noun in apposition. [details]
Type locality Holotype SMF 33452, Tyre, Levantine Sea, 33.2754 N, 35.1955 E, 0-5 m depth, artificial wall with corallines and vermetids. [details]
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