Description of a new species of Lumbrineris (Polychaeta: Lumbrineridae) from the coasts of Turkey (eastern Mediterranean)

The examination of sandy mud samples collected at 5-67 m depths in 2005 and 2009 on the Aegean and Levantine coasts of Turkey revealed the presence of specimens belonging to a new species of Lumbrineris (Polychaeta, Lumbrineridae), L. geldiayi. This species is mainly characterized by having maxillae III as an arcuate, unidentate plate; reddish aciculae; anterior and posterior parapodia with postchaetal lobe always longer than prechaetal lobe, median parapodia with both lobes of similar length; and composite multidentate hooded hooks with short blade and simple multidentate hooded hooks of two sizes, preacicular hooks being bigger than postacicular hooks. A key to Lumbrineris species from Mediterranean Sea is included. © 2010 Senckenberg, Gesellschaft fÜr Naturforschung and Springer.