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Issue: Vol. 5686 No. 4: 29 Aug. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-08-29
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5686.4.7
Page range: 572-586
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Previously undetected diversity of mesophotic squat-lobsters in the Red Sea, exemplified by a new species of Sadayoshia Baba, 1969 and a new record of Uroptychus deliquus Baba, Corbari & Macpherson, 2024 (Anomura: Galatheoidea and Chirostyloidea)

Instituto de Biologia; Campus do Capão do Leão; Universidade Federal de Pelotas (UFPEL); Prédio 5; Capão do Leão 96160-100; Rio Grande do Sul; Brazil; Division of Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering; King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST); Thuwal 23955-6900; Saudi Arabia
National Museum of Natural History; Smithsonian Institution; Washington DC; USA
Division of Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering; King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST); Thuwal 23955-6900; Saudi Arabia; Marine Science Program; Division of Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering; King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST); Thuwal 23955-6900; Saudi Arabia
Division of Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering; King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST); Thuwal 23955-6900; Saudi Arabia
Division of Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering; King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST); Thuwal 23955-6900; Saudi Arabia; Marine Science Program; Division of Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering; King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST); Thuwal 23955-6900; Saudi Arabia
OceanX; 37 West 39th St.; New York; NY 10018; USA
National Center for Wildlife; Riyadh 11575; Saudi Arabia
Division of Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering; King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST); Thuwal 23955-6900; Saudi Arabia; Marine Science Program; Division of Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering; King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST); Thuwal 23955-6900; Saudi Arabia
OceanX; 37 West 39th St.; New York; NY 10018; USA
Crustacea Marine biodiversity new species new record Indo-West Pacific Red Sea mesophotic decapod crustaceans symbiosis

Abstract

Two species of squat lobsters from the families Munididae and Chirostylidae were collected by ROV and manned submersible, respectively, at mesophotic depths of the Red Sea off the coast of Saudi Arabia. Sadayoshia benzoniae sp. nov. is described based on two specimens found among coral rubble and octocorals collected at depths of 104–248.5 m, whereas Uroptychus deliquus Baba, Corbari & Macpherson, 2024 is reported from the Red Sea for the first time, based on a single specimen found in association with a fan coral, Melithaea sp. (Alcyonacea, Melithaeidae), at a depth of 220 m. Both genera are recorded from the Red Sea for the first time.

 

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How to Cite

Anker, A., Rodríguez-Flores, P.C., Bähr, S., Barreca, F., Dunn, N., Rodrigue, M., Qurban, M., Duarte, C.M. & Pieribone, V. (2025) Previously undetected diversity of mesophotic squat-lobsters in the Red Sea, exemplified by a new species of Sadayoshia Baba, 1969 and a new record of Uroptychus deliquus Baba, Corbari & Macpherson, 2024 (Anomura: Galatheoidea and Chirostyloidea). Zootaxa, 5686 (4), 572–586. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5686.4.7