Abstract
ABSTRACTRecords of the genus Niphargus are quite new in Iran. Recent investigations of subterranean cave-dwelling fauna revealed a diversity of new taxa, including several new niphargid species. All of these new findings have been recorded from the north and north-west of the country, in Alborz and Northern Zagros regions. This paper describes a cave species from the Central Zagros, the southernmost range border of the genus Niphargus. A full morphological description of the species, as well as a brief note on the ecology of the cave, is presented, along with a detailed comparison to morphologically related or geographically close species. The most distinctive characters of this species are its long and slender pereopod III–VII, no spine on the dorsal surface of the telson, and the short second article of the uropod III exopodite. These data suggest that this is a new species, N. keeleri sp. nov., which is named after the cave in which it was found in.http://www.zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:14D5A709-FDDB-4D94-8AE8-F8AC0181D845
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