First record of a Lessepsian migrant: the sea cucumber Holothuria (Theelothuria) hamata Pearson, 1913
Citation
Aydin, M., Gurlek, M., Samyn, Y., Erguden, D., Turan, C. (2019). First record of a Lessepsian migrant: The sea cucumber Holothuria (Theelothuria) hamata Pearson, 1913. Zootaxa, (1), pp. 94-100. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4551.1.7Abstract
First record of a Lessepsian migrant: the sea cucumber Holothuria (Theelothuria) hamata Pearson, 1913. A single specimen of the Indo-West Pacific sea cucumber Holothuria (Theelothuria) hamata Pearson, 1913 has been captured in 2017 in the Mediterranean Sea, Turkey, Iskenderun Bay, at 30 m depth. This specimen is here described, and the taxonomy of the species is briefly discussed. Despite the lack of timed biogeographic evidence, we here argue that H. hamata is a Lessepsian migrant; the first in its genus and only the second holothuroid.
