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Issue: Vol. 4410 No. 2: 17 Apr. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-04-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4410.2.6
Page range: 370–378
Abstract views: 60
PDF downloaded: 5

Callianassa ehsani, a new species of Callianassidae (Crustacea, Decapoda, Axiidea) from Gulf of Oman, Iran

Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Razi University, 6714967346 Kermanshah, Iran
Biology Department, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Av., NW, Washington, D.C. 20016-8007, USA
Department of Marine Biological Sciences, Iranian National Institute for Oceanography and Atmospheric Science (INIOAS), Tehran, Iran
Crustacea Ghost shrimp callianassid Gulf of Oman Iran decapod

Abstract

Callianassa ehsani sp. nov. is described as a new species from the Gulf of Oman, Iran. It differs from all other members of the subfamily Callianassinae in having a well-developed meral hook on the merus and 6 or 7 acute spines on the ischium of the large cheliped and characters of the small cheliped and telson. This new species is most similar to Callianassa thailandica Sakai, 2005 and Callianassa persica, Sakai, 2005. The generic assignment of the new species is provisional, reflecting the unstable state of the taxonomy of this family.

 

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