Comments on two questionably new axiidean taxa from the Gulf of Mexico (Crustacea: Decapoda).

Short Communication:A subtidal porcellanid crab, Petrolisthes militaris (Heller, 1862) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura), from the Persian Gulf, Iran

New Species of Calocarididae from the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico (crustacea: Decapoda: Thalassinidea)

Three new species of deepwater calocaridid shrimps are recorded from the Gulf of Mexico: Calastacus colpos, Calastacus mexicanus, and Calocaris caribbaeus. The latter species is also recorded from several sites in the Caribbean Sea. Calastacus colpos is characterised by flattened contiguous eyes, a single spine on the dorsal margin of the merus of pereopod I, and 3-4 spines on the uropodal sutu...

A new species of the ghost shrimp genus Lepidophthalmus (Crustacea: Decapoda: Axiidea) from the southwestern Gulf of Mexico.

A new species of Lepidophthalmus lacking a ventral median sclerite on the second abdominal somite is described from coastal waters of the southwestern Gulf of Mexico. Lepidophthalmus statoni sp. nov., originally recognized only as a unique population in allozyme studies, is sympatric with the ventrally plated species Lepidophthalmus manningi Felder & Staton, 2000, but more closely resembles Lep...

Short Communication:A subtidal porcellanid crab, Petrolisthes militaris (Heller, 1862) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura), from the Persian Gulf, Iran

Distribution of Acanthephyra brevicarinata Hanamura, 1984 and A. brevirostris Smith, 1885 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Acanthephyridae), in Pacific Mexico.

Two species of the Acanthephyridae, Acanthephyra brevicarinata Hanamura, 1984, and A. brevirostris Smith, 1885, are reported for the Pacific coast of Mexico. The number of known localities for A. brevicarinata, a species endemic to the eastern Pacific, is increased from 24 to 70 and the number of specimens on records from 160 to 363. New distribution limits are provided for this species, from 2...