Een tweede exemplaar van Bankivia fasciata uit de Rode Zee (Gastropoda: Trochidae)

In 1980 Barash et al. recorded the first specimen of Bankivia fasciata (Menke, 1830) from the Red Sea, Gulf of Aqaba, Elat. A shell grit sample was collected by Mrs A. H. Kamphuis-Hensel in Na’ama Bay, north of Sharm al-Sheik in the Sinai. After sorting, this sample was sent to me for identification and was found to contain one specimen of Bankivia fasciata. It is a purplebrown juvenile specimen measuring 3.8 mm in length and 1.9 mm wide. The normal distribution of this species is Australia; New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and Southern Australia (Wilson, 1993:91). This second record for the Red Sea and Gulf of Aqaba in particular is therefore remarkable. Daily boats with scuba-divers leave Na'ama Bay to visit the coral reefs in the neighbourhood. It is suggested that the Bankivia specimen arrived here accidently with diving tourists which visited southeast Australia before.