Pycnogonids (Arthropoda: Pycnogonida) from Pakistan waters (North Arabian sea)
2012
Gul, S. (Government Degree Coll., Karachi (Pakistan). Jamia Millia) | Ghani, N. (Karachi Univ. (Pakistan). Dept. of Zoology)
Fourteen described pycnogonid species are recorded from Pakistan waters for the first time. These records increase the known species to sixteen. The pycnogonid fauna in the region is poorly studied and little understood with only two species, Pycnogonum tessellatum Stock, 1968 and Pigrogromitus timsanus Calman, 1927 previously recorded. The species now known belong to nine genera in five families. Callipallene brevirostris (Johnston, 1837) is recorded from the Indian Ocean for the first time and may have been introduced to the region as part of the fouling community on the hulls of ships. No new species are reported.
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