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Two new species of Ligia Fabricius, 1798 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Ligiidae) from coasts of the Persian and Aden gulfs

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Two new species of Ligia are described, L. persica sp. nov. from the Persian Gulf and L. yemenica sp. nov. from the Gulf of Aden. Ligia persica occurs along the northern coasts of the Persian Gulf and around some Iranian islands such as Qeshm and Kish. A comparison of SEM micrographs shows that the shape and ornamentation of distal parts of the appendix masculina are reliable characters for the identification of morphologically similar Ligia species. They are species-specific and of great importance in the taxonomy of the genus.

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Abbreviations

NHCY:

Natural History Collection of Yemen (specimens for present study were loaned from SMF)

SMF:

Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (Germany)

ZFMK:

Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Bonn (Germany)

ZMH:

Zoological Museum of Hamburg (Germany)

ZMB:

Zoological Museum of Berlin (Germany)

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Acknowledgements

This publication is part of a doctoral dissertation on Persian Gulf isopods conducted by VK at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. This study was supported by the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology of Iran. We thank especially Prof. Dr. A. Brandt (ZMH), Dr. Ch. O. Coleman (ZMB), Mr. A. Allspach (SMF), Ms. A. Yamaki (University of Yokohama, Japan), Dr. S. Kuo (Chinese Culture University, Taiwan), and Dr. M. Raupach (ZFMK) for the loan of specimens. We are also grateful to Mrs. Karin Ulmen (ZFMK) for assistance and help with the scanning electron microscope.

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    Valiallah Khalaji-Pirbalouty & Johann-Wolfgang Wägele

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Khalaji-Pirbalouty, V., Wägele, JW. Two new species of Ligia Fabricius, 1798 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Ligiidae) from coasts of the Persian and Aden gulfs. Org Divers Evol 10, 135–145 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13127-010-0003-5

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