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A new species of Gourretia (Decapoda: Axiidea: Gourretiidae) from the Persian Gulf, Iran

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 December 2015

Vahid Sepahvand*
Affiliation:
Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Razi University, 6714967346 Kermanshah, Iran
Nasrollah Rastegar Pouyani
Affiliation:
Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Razi University, 6714967346 Kermanshah, Iran
Farzaneh Momtazi
Affiliation:
Iranian National Institute for Oceanography and Atmospheric Science (INIOAS), Tehran, Iran
*
Correspondence should be addressed to:V. Sepahvand, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Razi University, 6714967346 Kermanshah, Iran email: [email protected]

Abstract

Sampling in subtidal waters of the Persian Gulf revealed a new species of ghost shrimp from the family Gourretiidae. Gourretia qeshmensis sp. nov. resembles G. sinica from the South China Sea and G. manihinae from Tanzania. Gourretia qeshmensis sp. nov. differs from these two species by characters of the ischium of the large cheliped, pereopod 3, exopod of the uropod and maxilliped 3.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2015 

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