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Two new species of Niphargus Schiödte, 1849 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Niphargidae) from two caves in Iran

2013; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 47; Issue: 41-42 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/00222933.2013.802041

1464-5262

Somayeh Esmaeili-Rineh, Alireza Sari,

Marine Ecology and Invasive Species

AbstractTwo new species of the genus Niphargus Schiödte, 1849 are described and named (Niphargus alisadri sp. nov. and Niphargus daniali sp. nov.) from two caves in Iran. Their taxonomic status within the genus Niphargus is discussed in comparison to several known species from Iran (N. valachicus, N. khayyami and N. khwarizmi), Turkey (N. tauri), Israel (N. itus) and Iraq (N. nadarini). http://www.zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:E401A157-90CB-4C66-9C0C-3FEE06E42A04Keywords: CrustaceaAmphipodaNiphargustaxonomyIran AcknowledgementsSpecial thanks go to Professor Boris Sket for providing the samples from Danial Cave and his kind hospitality during visits by the first author to Slovenia and to Dr Vahid Akmali for his invaluable help and efforts in collecting the specimens during fieldwork. We are especially grateful to Dr Cene Fišer and three anonymous referees for their invaluable comments. This study was funded by Research Council, University of Tehran.