Redescription of Gammarus pseudosyriacus (Karaman & Pinkster, 1977) and description of a new subspecies from southern Iran (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Gammaridae)

Maryam Semsar-Kazerooni; Mehrdad Zamanpoore; Saber Sadeghi

doi:10.3897/zookeys.598.8064

Redescription of Gammarus pseudosyriacus (Karaman & Pinkster, 1977) and description of a new subspecies from southern Iran (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Gammaridae)

Zookeys. 2016 Jun 14:(598):57-73. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.598.8064. eCollection 2016.

Authors

Maryam Semsar-Kazerooni¹, Mehrdad Zamanpoore², Saber Sadeghi¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Shiraz University, Adabiiat Crossroad, Shiraz, Fars, Iran.
² Department of Hydrobiology and Fisheries, Agricultural Research, Education, and Extension Organization, Modarres Boulevard, Shiraz, Fars, Iran.

Abstract

The present study focused on redescription of Gammarus pseudosyriacus (Karaman & Pinkster, 1977) based on new materials from Zagros Mountains and describes a new subspecies of freshwater amphipod, Gammarus pseudosyriacus issatisi subsp. n., from the southern Zagros Mountains. The work is based on morphological and morphometric comparisons. This new subspecies has features similar to Gammarus pseudosyriacus. The distinct features that distinguish Gammarus pseudosyriacus issatisi subsp. n. from Gammarus pseudosyriacus are the smaller eyes, shorter body length, and shorter flagellum of antenna 1 and 2.

Keywords: Fars; Gammarus pseudosyriacus; Taxonomy; Yazd; Zagros; amphipod; freshwater; invertebrate.