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| Automate arturi Ashrafi & De Grave, 2023 |
Abstract
During 2019, two specimens belonging to a new species of the alpheid shrimp genus Automate De Man, 1888 were collected from two islands in the northern part of the Persian Gulf. The new species is a member of the A. hayashii group which hitherto only comprised two species. However, the new species Automate arturi can be separated from them by several morphological features: a shorter rostrum with rounded tip, a shorter stylocerite barely extending beyond the first antennular article, the scaphocerite not reaching to the end of the second antennular article, the third maxilliped coxa with a subtriangular-shaped lateral plate, the ischia of the first pereiopods (chelipeds) dorsally armed with spiniform setae and ventrally with a small tubercle, and the ischia of the walking pereiopods armed with a single ventrolateral spiniform seta.
Keywords: Automate, new species, Persian Gulf, northern Indian Ocean
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| Automate arturi sp. nov., female holotype, Hengam Island, Persian Gulf (MNHN-IU-2014-1264). A, major cheliped, mesialview; B, same, lateral view; C, same, distal portion of palm and fingers, lateral view; D, minor cheliped, mesial view; E, same, lateralview; F, same, distal portion of palm and fingers, lateral view. |
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| Automate arturi sp. nov., female paratype, Abu-Musa Island, Persian Gulf (MNHN-IU-2014-1265). A, right, dorsolateralaspect; B, left lateral aspect. Photos by Rashed Abdollahi. |
Automate arturi
Hossein Ashrafi and Sammy De Grave. 2023. A New Species of Automate (Crustacea: Decapoda) from the Persian Gulf. Crustacean Research. 52; 79-89. DOI: 10.18353/crustacea.52.0_79
