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Issue: Vol. 4853 No. 4: 24 Sept. 2020
Type: Article
Published: 2020-09-24
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4853.4.5
Page range: 562–571
Abstract views: 60
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New species of Caprella (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from the Gulf of Oman, Iran

Iranian National Institute for Oceanography and Atmospheric Science (INIOAS), Marine Bioscience Dept. Tehran, Iran.
School of Biology and Centre of Excellence in Phylogeny of Living Organisms, College of Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, and Rodentology Research Department, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran.
Crustacea Caprella moradi Gulf of Oman Makran Skeleton shrimp

Abstract

Caprella moradi sp. nov. is described from intertidal zone of the Gulf of Oman, Iran. This species is differentiated from the most similar species Caprella danilevskii (Czerniavski, 1868), by four rows of fine setae on the body surface and bears a curved anterior surface of propodus in the second male gnathopod.

 

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