scholarly journals A new species of squat lobster of the genus Munida (Galatheoidea, Munididae) from the Red Sea

Crustaceana ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 90 (7-10) ◽  
pp. 1005-1014
Author(s):  
E. Macpherson ◽  
L. Beuck ◽  
C. Roder ◽  
C. R. Voolstra
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
New Species ◽  
Red Sea ◽  
Deep Water ◽  
Scleractinian Coral ◽  
Dorsal Side ◽  
Eastern Pacific ◽  
Squat Lobster ◽  
Pacific Species ◽  
A New Species

During a deep-water expedition to the Red Sea in 2013, an unusual specimen of squat lobster belonging to the genusMunidawas collected off Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, at a depth of 320 m. This specimen is unique in having the pterygostomial flap visible from the dorsal side, the feature linking it to two eastern Pacific species,M. bapensisHendrickx, 2000 andM. macrobrachiaHendrickx, 2003. The new species (M. tuerkayi) is readily distinguished from the eastern Pacific species by having the gastric region with numerous instead of less numerous spines, by having sternite 7 with three distinct carinae on each side, and by having the antennular basal article with two distal spines subequal instead of different in size.Munida tuerkayiwas found associated with live colonies of the scleractinian coralEguchipsammia fistula(Alcock, 1902).

A new squat lobster species of the genus Munida Leach, 1820 (Crustacea: Anomura: Galatheoidea: Munididae) from hydrothermal vents on the Eastern Pacific Rise

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4743 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
XINMING LIU ◽  
XINZHENG LI ◽  
RONGCHENG LIN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Deep Sea ◽  
Hydrothermal Vent ◽  
Hydrothermal Vents ◽  
Eastern Pacific ◽  
Single Specimen ◽  
Squat Lobster ◽  
The Third ◽  
A New Species

A new species of the genus Munida Leach, 1820, is described and illustrated based on a single specimen from the deep-sea hydrothermal vent on the Eastern Pacific Rise. Munida alba sp. nov. closely resembles M. ampliantennulata Komai, 2011, M. watatsumin Komai, 2014. and M. magniantennulata, but differences in the morphologies of the third maxilliped, pollex of the cheliped and the third segment of the antennal peduncle readily distinguish the new species from the three relatives. The new species is the fourth of the genus occurring at the hydrothermal vent areas. 

Alpheus luiszapatai, a new species of rare and colorful deep water alpheid shrimp (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alpheidae) from Arusí, Chocó Department, Pacific Coast of Colombia

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4403 (3) ◽  
pp. 540 ◽  
Author(s):  
GABRIEL E. RAMOS-TAFUR
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Deep Water ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Species Group ◽  
Eastern Pacific ◽  
Single Female ◽  
Western Atlantic ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Alpheid Shrimp

A new species of deep water alpheid shrimp, Alpheus luiszapatai sp. nov., from Arusí, Chocó, Pacific coast of Colombia is described. The single female known was collected between the discarded bycatch of deep water shrimp trawls dedicated to the commercial fisheries of the “coliflor” shrimp Solenocera spp. This new species is placed putatively in the Alpheus brevirostris (Olivier, 1811) species group, and share some external morphological characters with Alpheus hephaestus Bracken-Grissom & Felder, 2014. It can be differentiated by the shape and ornamentation of major and minor chelipeds, the propodi and dactyli of third to fifth pereopods, the diaresis of uropodal exopod, the length of the rostral carina, color in life and bathymetric distribution. Additional comparison with another congeners pertaining to this species group complex from the eastern Pacific, western Atlantic and other oceanographic regions is discussed. A key for Alpheus brevirostris species group from the eastern Pacific is presented. 

Nephtyidae (Polychaeta, Phyllodocida) from the Red Sea, with record of a new species

2017 ◽  
Vol 97 (5) ◽  
pp. 843-856 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Ravara ◽  
S. Carvalho
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
New Species ◽  
Red Sea ◽  
West Coast ◽  
New Records ◽  
The West ◽  
Bathymetric Range ◽  
Current Finding ◽  
First Time ◽  
A New Species

Six nephtyid species were identified from samples collected off the west coast of Saudi Arabia. Two of these species had been previously reported for the Red Sea (Inermonephtys aff. inermis, Nephtys palatii), three are new records (Aglaophamus lobatus, A. cf. verrilli, Micronephthys stammeri) and one is new to science (Inermonephtys aramco). Inermonephtys aramco was collected in the southern region of the Red Sea at depths between 60 and 83 m. It is characterized by the presence of branchiae from chaetiger 15 or 16, well-developed parapodial prechaetal lamellae, broadly rounded notopodial postchaetal lamellae and rudimentary neuropodial postchaetal lamellae. The species Nephtys palatii is transferred to the genus Micronephthys. Based on the current finding, the previously known bathymetric range of Micronephthys stammeri is extended from 4–7 to 17 m, and occurrence depths for N. palatii are given for the first time (4–90 m). Full descriptions are included for all species except M. stammeri. An identification key for all the species known to occur in the Red Sea is provided.

A new species of Schizophrys (Majoidea: Majidae: Majinae) from the Red Sea coast of Saudi Arabia, with description of its first zoea

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 1163-1169
Author(s):  
Ali M. Al-Aidaroos ◽  
A. A. J. Kumar ◽  
Ahmed E. Al-Haj ◽  
Moritz Sonnewald
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
New Species ◽  
Red Sea ◽  
Red Sea Coast ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Sea Coast

scholarly journals Review of Red Sea Xenisthmus Snyder (Teleostei: Gobioidei: Xenisthmidae), with description of a new species

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4286 (2) ◽  
pp. 203 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANTHONY C. GILL ◽  
SERGEY V. BOGORODSKY ◽  
AHMAD O. MAL
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
New Species ◽  
Red Sea ◽  
Persian Gulf ◽  
Identification Key ◽  
Dorsal Fin ◽  
A New Species

Three species of the xenisthmid genus Xenisthmus Snyder are recorded from the Red Sea. Xenisthmus polyzonatus (Klunzinger), the only described species previously known from the Red Sea, is reported on the basis of eight specimens from Egypt, Eritrea and Saudi Arabia. Xenisthmus oligoporus new species is described from four specimens, 17.7–25.0 mm SL, from Sudan and Saudi Arabia. It is distinguished from all other congeners in having a reduced number of cephalic sensory pores and 14–15 segmented rays in the second dorsal fin. Xenisthmus balius Gill & Randall is newly recorded from the Red Sea on the basis of 13 specimens from Eritrea, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. The new specimens of this species are described and compared with previously known specimens, the holotype and eight paratypes from the Arabian (= Persian) Gulf. All three species are described in detail and illustrated with colour photographs. An identification key to the species is also provided. 

One new species of a new genus, Kuwaitupogebia gen. nov., in a new family, Kuwaitupogebiidae fam. nov., from Kuwait, and two new species of the genus Upogebia from the Red Sea (Decapoda, Thalassinidea)

Crustaceana ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 88 (10-11) ◽  
pp. 1221-1234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katsushi Sakai ◽  
Michael Türkay ◽  
Ali Al Aidaroos
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
New Species ◽  
Red Sea ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Sensu Stricto ◽  
New Family ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Sea Area ◽  
One New Species ◽  
A New Species

The infraorder Thalassinidea Latreille, 1831 [sensu stricto] includes three families: Thalassinidae Latreille, 1831; Upogebiidae Borradaile, 1903; and Laomediidae De Haan, 1849 (cf. Sakai & Sawada, 2006). However, recent examination of material from Kuwait in the Pershian Gulf, showed the occurence of a new species,Kuwaitupogebia nithyanandangen. et sp. nov., and this has made it possible to establish a new family, Kuwaitupogebiidae fam. nov., based on that new genus. The genusUpogebiaLeach, 1814 is known to include nine species from the Red Sea area, yet herein two new species,Upogebiaspongicolasp. nov. from the Reef at Hurghada, Red Sea, Egypt, andUpogebia jizanensissp. nov. from off Jizan, Saudi Arabia, Red Sea, can be added, based on material lodged in the collections of the museum in Frankfurt a. M.

Two new species of Paguristes sensu stricto (Decapoda: Anomura: Paguroidea: Diogenidae) and a review of  Paguristes pusillus Henderson

Zootaxa ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 1083 (1) ◽  
pp. 37 ◽  
Author(s):  
PATSY A. MCLAUGHLIN ◽  
DWI LISTYO RAHAYU
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Red Sea ◽  
Sensu Stricto ◽  
Similar Species ◽  
Single Specimen ◽  
Specific Rank ◽  
The Persian Gulf ◽  
Distinct Taxon ◽  
Pacific Species ◽  
A New Species

A new species of the hermit crab genus Paguristes, sensu stricto, Paguristes alcock n. sp., is described and illustrated from materials collected in Australia, Indonesia and the Philippine Islands. It is proposed that this taxon, or a species identified simply as Paguristes sp. by Lewinsohn (1969) in his monograph of Red Sea Anomura, may be conspecific with the species incorrectly referred by Alcock (1905) and several subsequent carcinologists to Paguristes ciliatus Heller, 1862. Lewinsohn subsequently re-identified his material of Paguristes sp. as Paguristes ciliatus sensu Alcock, 1905 and P. pusillus Henderson, 1896. Alcock’s single specimen of P. ? ciliatus from the Persian Gulf was not available for reexamination. Lewinsohn’s specimens however, have been reviewed and compared with the present authors Indo-Pacific species and with a specimen identified by Henderson as P. pusillus. Lewinsohn’s Red Sea specimens are described and illustrated herein as P. lewinsohni n. sp., as are the specimens identified as P. pusillus by Thompson (1943) from the John Murray Expedition. An illustrated description of P. pusillus is also provided to facilitate recognition of these superficially similar species. Paguristes pusillus zhejiangensis Wang & Tung, 1982 is considered to be a distinct taxon, not a subspecies of P. pusillus, and is herein elevated to full specific rank.

A new species of the porcelain crab genus Petrolisthes from the Pacific coast of Panama, with taxonomic notes on closely related species (Decapoda: Anomura: Porcellanidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4858 (4) ◽  
pp. 576-588
Author(s):  
LUCIANE AUGUSTO DE AZEVEDO FERREIRA ◽  
L. DANIEL SANTANA-MORENO ◽  
ARTHUR ANKER
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
Eastern Pacific ◽  
Closely Related Species ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Colour Patterns ◽  
Porcelain Crab ◽  
General Configuration ◽  
Pacific Species ◽  
A New Species

A new species of porcelain crab, Petrolisthes lazarus sp. nov., is described from the Pacific coast of Panama, based on two female specimens. The new species is morphologically most similar to another eastern Pacific species, P. crenulatus Lockington, 1878, especially in the general configuration of the carapace, chelipeds and ambulatory legs. However, P. lazarus sp. nov. can be separated from P. crenulatus by the differences in the proportions of the carapace, the shape of the frontal region of the carapace, and the setation pattern of the cheliped. In addition, P. lazarus sp. nov. and P. crenulatus appear to be allopatric, the latter species presently being known only from Mexico. Among other eastern Pacific taxa, P. lazarus sp. nov. may have some affinities with P. ortmanni Nobili, 1901 and P. lewisi (Glassell, 1936), from which it can be easily distinguished by the chelipeds lacking a dense field of setae on the outer (lateral) surface of the palm and with different proportions of some articles, especially the carpus. The four species can also be distinguished from each other by their diagnostic, although somewhat variable colour patterns. 

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