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Issue: Vol. 5369 No. 3: 10 Nov. 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-11-10
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5369.3.6
Page range: 427-436
Abstract views: 274
PDF downloaded: 23

A further new species of Palaemonella Dana, 1852 from the coasts of the Arabian Peninsula (Malacostraca: Decapoda: Palaemonidae)

Universidade Federal de Pelotas (UFPEL); Departamento de Ecologia; Zoologia e Genética; Instituto de Biologia; Campus Universitário Capão do Leão; RS; 96010-610; Brazil. Red Sea Research Center; Biological and Environmental Science & Engineering Division; King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST); Thuwal; Saudi Arabia
Red Sea Research Center; Biological and Environmental Science & Engineering Division; King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST); Thuwal; Saudi Arabia
Crustacea Crustaceans marine shrimp Caridea palaemonids biodiversity Indian Ocean

Abstract

Palaemonella yalla sp. nov. is described based on two ovigerous females: the holotype from Thuwal, Red Sea coast of Saudi Arabia, and a non-type specimen from Masirah Island, eastern Oman. The new species is very close to P. okunoi Komai & Yamada, 2015, from which it is essentially distinguishable by the distoventrally armed merus of the second pereiopods. The Saudi Arabian specimen was extracted from a burrow of an unknown host, whereas the Omani specimen was found in a muddy depression created after flipping a large rock deeply embedded in the sediment.

 

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