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Palaemonid shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda) of Saudi Arabia from the ‘Red Sea Biodiversity Survey’ 2011–2013, with 11 new records for the Red Sea

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In the material collected within the Saudi Arabian-German cooperation project ‘Red Sea Biodiversity Survey’ 2011–2013 along the Saudi Arabian coasts of the Red Sea, 29 species of shrimps of the family Palaemonidae were recognized. From those, 13 species are for the first time recorded from Saudi Arabia, from which 11 species represent the first records from the Red Sea as well. Among them, species of the genera Paranchistus, Urocaridella, and Yemenicaris represent new generic records for the Red Sea. Based on published reports and present data, 73 palaemonid species are actually known from the Red Sea. The present study thus shows a diversity greater than 20 species (37.7%) in comparison with the knowledge in 1983 (53 species) when the major part of palaemonid shrimps was last reviewed for the Red Sea by Bruce and Svoboda (1983).

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The author is deeply grateful to the late prof. Michael Türkay (SMF, Frankfurt) for his kind invitation to examine the RSS1 shrimps, and to Andreas Brösing and Moritz Sonnevald (SMF) for their help with samples and expedition data. Dr. Vassily A Spiridonov (PP. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow) is acknowledged for providing additional data and photographs of the RSS1 shrimps. Anna Šobánová (University of Ostrava) is acknowledged for the arrangement of figures.

The cooperation between King Abdulaziz University, Faculty of Marine Sciences, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and the Senckenberg Research Institute, Frankfurt, Germany, in the framework of the Red Sea Biodiversity Project, during which the present material was collected, was funded by KAU grant no. “D/1/432-DSR”. This study was supported by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic in the “National Feasibility Program I”, project LO1208 “TEWEP”.

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Ďuriš, Z. Palaemonid shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda) of Saudi Arabia from the ‘Red Sea Biodiversity Survey’ 2011–2013, with 11 new records for the Red Sea. Mar Biodiv 47, 1147–1161 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-017-0681-8

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