Momtazi Farzaneh, Sari Alireza, Maghsoudlou Abdolvahab
Iranian National Institute for Oceanography and Atmospheric Science (INIOAS), Tehran, Iran; Email:
School of Biology and Centre of Excellence in Phylogeny of Living Organisms, College of Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran; Email: unknown.
Zootaxa. 2014 Nov 7;3881(5):440-52. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3881.5.2.
New record and new species of the families Melitidae Bousfield, 1973 and Maeridae Krapp-Schickel, 2008 are described from the Iranian shorelines of the Persian Gulf. Melita persia sp. nov. is differentiated from other members of M. zeylanica Stebbing, 1904 group by: the presence of two setae on inner ramus of third uropod, the setal arrangement on the telson, and a recurved proximal lobe of sixth coxa in females. Also, Elasmopus menurte Barnard, 1974 previously described from Western Australia and Mauritius is recorded, for the first time, from Persian Gulf in the north-western Indian Ocean.
本文描述了1973年博斯菲尔德的梅利蒂科（Melitidae）科和2008年克拉普 - 施克尔的梅尔科（Maeridae）科的新记录及新物种，这些均来自波斯湾的伊朗海岸线。新物种波斯梅利塔虾（Melita persia sp. nov.）与1904年斯特布的泽兰卡梅利塔虾（M. zeylanica）种群的其他成员的区别在于：第三尾足内肢上有两根刚毛、尾节上的刚毛排列以及雌性第六基节的近端叶呈弯曲状。此外，1974年巴纳德首次描述于西澳大利亚和毛里求斯的印度洋西北部波斯湾首次记录到了曼氏艾拉斯莫普斯虾（Elasmopus menurte）。
