Balsscallichirus masoomi
Creators
- 1. Universidade Federal de Goiás, Campus Samambaia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas-ICB- 5. Av. Esperança, s / n., 74690 - 900, Goiâ-
- 2. Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Parks Road, Oxford, OX 1 3 PW, United Kingdom https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 2437 - 2445
Description
Balsscallichirus masoomi (Tirmizi, 1970)
(Fig. 12)
Callianassa (Callichirus) masoomi Tirmizi, 1970: 245, figs. 1–3.
Podocallichirus masoomi. — Sakai 1999: 58; Sakai 2005: 192; Sepahvand & Sari 2010: 47, fig. 5.
Tirmizicallichirus masoomi. — Sakai 2011: 475; Naderloo & Türkay 2012: 18.
Callichirus masoomi. — Sepahvand et al. 2013: 5; Sepahvand et al. 2014: 142.
Balsscallichirus masoomi. — Hyžný 2016: 43, fig. 3.
Callianassa (Callichirus) kewalramanii Sankolli, 1971: 94, fig. 5.
Material examined. Kuwait: 1 female, OUMNH. ZC. 2020.01.036, Failaka Island, eastern side, 29°23.409’N 48°23.927’E, shallow subtidal partly exposed at low tide (0–0.3 m), muddy bottom close to rocky platform, suction (yabby) pump, in burrow, together with Salmoneus sp. nov., leg. A. Anker, 03.x.2019 [fcn KUW-067]; 1 male, OUMNH. ZC. 2020.01.037, same collection details [fcn KUW-062]; 1 male, OUMNH. ZC. 2020.01.038, same collection details [fcn KUW-075]; 1 male, OUMNH. ZC. 2020.01.039, same collection details [fcn KUW-072]; 1 ov. female (pleon somewhat damaged), OUMNH. ZC. 2020.01.040, Kuwait City, Ras Ajuzah, 29°23.656’N 47°59.840’E, sand-mud-rock intertidal and adjacent shallow subtidal (less than 0.3 m at low tide), muddy sand, suction (yabby) pump, in burrow, leg. A. Anker & M. Nithyanandan, 25.ix.2019 [fcn KUW-028]; 1 male, OUMNH. ZC. 2020.01.041, same collection details [fcn KUW-026]; 1 female, MNHN-IU-2019-3184, Failaka Island, eastern side, shallow subtidal flat partly exposed at low tide (0–0.3 m), suction (yabby) pump, in burrow, leg. A. Anker, 12.ii.2020 [fcn FA-017]; 1 female (missing posterior part of pleon), KISR, Al-Shaab, rocky intertidal, low tide, leg. M. Al-Kandari et al., 19.i.2014.
General distribution. Northern Indian Ocean: India (near Mumbai), Pakistan (near Karachi) and the Arabian Gulf (Iran, Kuwait) (Sepahvand et al. 2013; present study).
Ecology. Intertidal and shallow subtidal; sandy or sandy-muddy bottoms, in burrows.
Remarks. Balsscallichirus masoomi appears to be the most common ghost shrimp in northern Kuwait (Kuwait City area, Failaka Island). Among the two callianassids presently known from Kuwait, B. masoomi can be recognised by the ventrally serrated carpus of the major cheliped (Fig. 12C) and the centrally convex posterior margin of the telson (Fig. 12D). The spacious burrows of B. masoomi occasionally host a small alpheid shrimp, Salmoneus ikaros, recently described based on a single specimen extracted from this ghost shrimp’s burrow (Anker et al. 2020).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- KISR , OUMNH, ZC
- Event date
- 2014-01-19 , 2019-09-25 , 2019-10-03 , 2020-02-12
- Family
- Callianassidae
- Genus
- Balsscallichirus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Decapoda
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Tirmizi
- Species
- masoomi
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 2014-01-19 , 2019-09-25 , 2019-10-03 , 2020-02-12
- Taxonomic concept label
- Balsscallichirus masoomi (Tirmizi, 1970) sec. Al-Kandari, Anker, Hussain, Al-Yassen, Sattari & Grave, 2020
References
- Tirmizi, N. M. (1970) A new species of Callianassa (Decapoda, Thalassinidea) from West Pakistan. Crustaceana, 19, 245 - 250. https: // doi. org / 10.1163 / 156854070 X 00329
- Sakai, K. (1999) Synopsis of the family Callianassidae, with keys to subfamilies, genera and species, and the description of new taxa (Crustacea: Decapoda: Thalassinidea). Zoologische Verhandelingen, Leiden, 326, 1 - 152.
- Sakai, K. (2005) Callianassoidea of the world (Decapoda, Thalassinidea). Crustaceana Monographs, 4, 1 - 285.
- Sepahvand, V. & Sari, A. (2010) Taxonomy and geographical distribution of intertidal thalassinidean shrimps (Crustacean: Decapoda) from the Qeshm Island, Persian Gulf. Journal of Science University of Tehran, 36, 43 - 52. [in Persian]
- Sakai, K. (2011) Axioidea of the world and a reconsideration of the Callianassoidea (Decapoda, Thalassinidea, Callianassida). Crustaceana Monographs, 13, 1 - 520. https: // doi. org / 10.1163 / 9789047424185
- Naderloo, R. & Turkay, M. (2012) Decapod crustaceans of the littoral and shallow sublittoral Iranian coast of the Persian Gulf: faunistics, biodiversity and zoogeography. Zootaxa, 3374 (1), 1 - 67. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3374.1.1
- Sepahvand, V., Sari, A., Salehi, H., Nabavi, S. M. B. & Ghorbanzadeh, S. G. (2013) Littoral mud shrimps (Decapoda: Gebiidea & Axiidea) of the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, Iran. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 93, 999 - 1008. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 0025315412001361
- Sepahvand, V., Sari, A., Tudge, C. & Bolouki, M. (2014) A study of burrow morphology in representative axiidean and gebiidean mud shrimps, from the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, Iran. Nauplius, 22, 137 - 144. https: // doi. org / 10.1590 / S 0104 - 64972014000200007
- Hyzny, M. (2016) Balsscallichirus Sakai, 2011 (Decapoda: Axiidea: Callianassidae) in the fossil record: systematic and palaeobiogeography. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, A 118, 39 - 63.
- Sankolli, K. N. (1971) The Thalassinoidea (Crustacea, Anomura) of Maharashtra. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 68 (1), 94 - 106.
- Nobili, G. (1904) Diagnoses preliminaires de vingt-huites especes nouvelles de stomatopodes et decapodes macroures de la Mer Rouge. Bulletin du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, 10, 228 - 238.
- Anker, A., Al-Kandari, M. & De Grave, S. (2020) On two species of the alpheid shrimp genus Salmoneus Holthuis, 1955 from Kuwait, one of them new to science (Malacostraca: Decapoda: Caridea). Zootaxa, 4780 (1), 077 - 092. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4780.1.3