Abstract
Abstract A new species of telescope shrimp, Ogyrides sindibadi sp. nov. is described from Kuwait. The new species is morphologically similar to O. striaticauda Kemp, 1915, originally described from Chilka Lake (India), but can be distinguished by the shape of the scaphocerite, the much longer dactylus of the third pereiopod, as well as the shape of the distal margin of the telson.
Highlights
The telescope shrimp genus Ogyrides Stebbing, 1914 is the sole genus in the family Ogyrididae and currently comprises a mere 11 species worldwide, distributed in tropical to temperate waters
1893 from several locations in West Africa, but Holthuis (1951) considered it likely that these records refer to O. rarispina
Two further nominal species are known from the Indo-Pacific, O. orientalis (Stimpson, 1860) and O. sibogae (De Man, 1910), the taxonomic status of which is somewhat confused
Summary
The telescope shrimp genus Ogyrides Stebbing, 1914 is the sole genus in the family Ogyrididae and currently comprises a mere 11 species worldwide, distributed in tropical to temperate waters. Two further nominal species are known from the Indo-Pacific, O. orientalis (Stimpson, 1860) and O. sibogae (De Man, 1910), the taxonomic status of which is somewhat confused. Irrespective of possible synonymies, O. orientalis is currently considered to be the most widespread species of the genus in the Indo-Pacific, with modern records from southern Korea (Kim, 1977), northern China (An et al, 2015), Fukushima, Japan (Yokoya, 1927), the East China Sea (Fujino & Miyake, 1970), Hong Kong (Bruce, 1990), Singapore (Anker & De Grave, 2016) and Pakistan (Tirmizi, 1980).
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