A review of the collections of the infraorders Thalassinidea Latreille, 1831 and Callianassidea Dana, 1852 (Decapoda, Pleocyemata) lodged in three German Museums, with revised keys to the genera and species

Abstract

The collections of the infraorders Thalassinidea Latreille, 1831 and Callianassidea Dana, 1852 logded in three German Museums, viz., Zoologische Staatssammlung, Munich (ZSM), Zoologisches Museum der Universität Hamburg, Hamburg (ZMH), and Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB) were examined. The results of the present study indicate that the material of these collections comprises 10 families, 31 genera, including one new genus, and 73 species, three of which are new to science.