Mangelia unifasciata
Creators: name: Öztürk, Bilal
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Neogastropoda
Mangeliidae
Mangelia
Mangelia unifasciata

description: Mangelia unifasciata (Deshayes 1835)
(Fig. 17)
Pleurotoma unifasciata Deshayes 1835: 177, pl. 19, figs 34–36.
Materials: 09.05.1996, Karaburun, Aegean Sea, P. oceanica, 4 m, 1 spm (ESFM-GAS/1996-28); 25.11.1996, Yalıkavak (Bodrum), sandy mud, 36 m, 1 spm (ESFM-GAS/1996-37); 16.07.1998, Behramkale, Aegean Sea, P. oceanica, 8 m, 1 spm (ESFM-GAS/1998-62); 06.02.2002, Bodrum, Aegean Sea, P. oceanica + sand, 13 m, 1 spm (ESFM-GAS/2002-57); 13.02.2002, Izmir Bay, Aegean Sea, sand, 24 m, 3 sh. (ESFM-GAS/2002-39); 01.05.2003, Ildır Bay, Aegean Sea, P. oceanica + sand, 15 m, 1 spm (ESFM-GAS/2003-106); 09.06.2003, P. oceanica + sand, 18 m, 1 spm (ESFM-GAS/2003-105); 19.09.2003, Izmir Bay, Aegean Sea, sandy mud, 6, 10 and 12 m, 7 spm (ESFM- GAS/2003-104); 27.05.2004, Ildır Bay, Aegean Sea, sand + P. oceanica, 30 m, 2 spm (ESFM-GAS/2004-44); 01.12.2004, Ildır Bay, Aegean Sea, sand, 10 m, 1 spm (ESFM-GAS/2004-35); 03.06.2005, Ildır Bay, Aegean Sea, sandy mud, 55 m, 22 spm (ESFM-GAS/2005-312); 30.09.2005, Finike Bay, mud, 75 m, 1 spm (ESFM-GAS/2005- 313); 03.10.2005, Kaş, Levantine Sea, P. oceanica, 9 m, 1 spm (ESFM-GAS/2005-107); 06.10.2005, Fethiye Bay, Levantine Sea, F. petiolata + muddy sand, 25 m, 4 spm (ESFM-GAS/2005-311); 07.10.2005, Göçek, Levantine Sea, Zostera spp., 3 m, 1 spm (ESFM-GAS/2005-109); 09.08.2008, Erdek, Sea of Marmara, mud, 13 m, 2 spm (ESFM-GAS/2008-18); 20.12.2008, Avşa Islands, Sea of Marmara, sandy mud, 19 m, 3 spm (ESFM-GAS/2008- 16); 04.02.2009, Mersin Bay, Levantine Sea, mud, 17 m, 9 sh (ESFM-GAS/2009-52); 06.06.2013, Dardanelles, muddy sand, 10, 25 and 50 m, 18 spm + 1 sh. (ESFM-GAS/2013-63); 06.06.2013, Erdek, Sea of Marmara, mud, 15 m, 3 spm (ESFM-GAS/2013-94); 07.06.2013, Dardanelles, mud with Lithothamnion (red alga) fragments, 25 m, 2 spm (ESFM-GAS/2013-93); 08.06.2013, Sea of Marmara, sand with shell fragments, 10 m, 3 spm + 1 sh. (ESFM-GAS/2013-95); 10.06.2013, Sea of Marmara, muddy sand with shell fragments, 10 and 25 m, 11 spm + 1 sh. (ESFM-GAS/2013-62); 13.06.2013, Sea of Marmara, sandy mud with shell fragments, 10 m, 4 spm (ESFM- GAS/2013-90); 14.06.2013, Sea of Marmara, sand, 10 m, 15 spm + 3 sh. (ESFM-GAS/2013-47); 17.06.2013, Sea of Marmara, sandy mud with shell fragments, 10 m, 2 spm + 1sh. (ESFM-GAS/2013-89); 18.06.2013, Sea of Marmara, sandy mud with shell fragments, 10 m, 5 spm (ESFM-GAS/2013-91); 20.06.2013, Sea of Marmara, sand with shell fragments, 10 m, 1 spm (ESFM-GAS/2013-45); 21.06.2013, Sea of Marmara, mud with shell fragments, 10 and 200 m, 2 spm (ESFM-GAS/2013-96); 24.06.2013, Sea of Marmara, sandy mud with shell fragments, 50 m, 1 spm (ESFM-GAS/2013-92); 26.06.2013, Sea of Marmara, mud, 100 m, 1 spm (ESFM-GAS/2013-97); 26.04.2014, G̹ll̹k Bay, Aegean Sea, sandy mud with shell fragments, 44 m, 1 spm (ESFM-GAS/2014-54); 19.06.2014, Izmir Bay, Aegean Sea, sandy mud with shell fragments, 18 m, 2 spm (ESFM-GAS/2014-56); 24.07.2014, Akköy, Aegean Sea, sandy mud, 67 m, 1 spm (ESFM-GAS/2014-55); 26. 07.2014, G̹ll̹k Bay, sandy mud with shell fragments, 46 m, 1 spm (ESFM-GAS/2014-37); 07.02.2015, Ildır Bay, Aegean Sea, sandy mud, 62 m, 1 sh. (ESFM-GAS/2015- 38); 15.02.2015, G̹ll̹k Bay, sandy mud with shell fragments, 50 m, 2 sh. (ESFM-GAS/2015-35); 16.02.2015, G̹ll̹k Bay, Aegean Sea, sandy mud, 47 m, 1 spm (ESFM-GAS/2015-39); 16.03.2015, G̹ll̹k Bay, Aegean Sea, 44 m, 1 spm (ESFM-GAS/2015-37); 15.08.2015, Aliağa Bay, Aegean Sea, mud, 24 m, 2 spm (ESFM-GAS/2015-34); 15.12.2015, Güllük Bay, Aegean Sea, mud, 45 and 50 m, 3 spm (ESFM-GAS/2015-36); 21.10.2016, Eski Foça, Ae-gean Sea, P. oceanica, 8 m, 5 spm + 2 sh. (ESFM-GAS/2016-16); 06.04.2017, Eski Foça, Aegean Sea, P. oceanica, 8 m; 2 spm (ESFM-GAS/2017-92); 05.07.2017, Kaş, Levantine Sea, P. oceanica, 22 m, 1 spm (ESFM-GAS/2017- 93); 03.08.2017, Marmaris Bay, Aegean Sea, sandy mud, 26 m, 5 spm (ESFM-GAS/2017-75); 21.08.2017, Izmir Bay, Aegean Sea, mud with shell fragments, 19 m, 1 spm (ESFM-GAS/2017-73); 28.08.2019, G̹ll̹k Bay, Aegean Sea, sandy mud with shell fragments, 38 m, 1 spm (ESFM-GAS/2019-22); 04.09.2019, Iskenderun Bay, Levantine Sea, mud with shell fragments, 47 m, 1 spm (ESFM-GAS/2019-23); 10.09.2019, Fethiye Bay, Levantine Sea, mud, 44 m, 1 spm (ESFM-GAS/2019-24).
Remarks: The species is the most abundant one among the Mangelia taxa distributed on the Turkish coasts. Shell with a multispiral protoconch and teleoconch sculpture consisting of axial ribs with interspaces differing in various morphotypes (8–9 ribs on the body whorl) (Fig. 17), and thin spirals with regularly spaced stronger ones. Posterior sinus and labial varix are well developed. The background color varies from whitish to brown, with different color patterns in various morphotypes (Fig. 17).
Distribution: Eastern Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea (Gofas et al. 2011). Turkish coasts: Levantine Sea, Aegean Sea, Sea of Marmara (Özt̹rk et al. 2014).
description: Published as part of Öztürk, Bilal, 2021, Mangelia (Gastropoda, Conoidea) species of the Turkish coasts with description of Mangelia vanaartseni sp. nov., pp. 241-262 in Zootaxa 4933 (2) on pages 255-257, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4933.2.4, http://zenodo.org/record/4550256