title: A new species of Fizesereneia Takeda & Tamura, 1980 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Cryptochiridae) from the Red Sea and Oman.
abstract: A new species of cryptochirid crab, Fizesereneia panda van der Meij, is described and illustrated based on specimens collected from the scleractinian corals Lobophyllia cf. hemprichii and L. cf. corymbosa from the Farasan Banks, Farasan Islands, and the reefs off Thuwal in the Saudi Arabian Red Sea, and from Symphyllia recta from reefs in the Gulf of Oman. This is the second cryptochirid species with the Red Sea as type locality. It can be separated from its congeners by the subrectangular carapace, raised midline and the complete division of the carapace depressions, and reddish black colour pattern of these concavities in live specimens. This new species is the seventh assigned to Fizesereneia. A DNA barcode for the new species has been deposited in GenBank.
authors.affiliation: Department of Marine Zoology, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Darwinweg 2, 2333 CR Leiden, The Netherlands; Email: Sancia.vanderMeij@naturalis.nl.
authors.forename: Sancia E T
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Van Der Meij
authors.affiliation: Red Sea Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Jeddah 23955, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; Email: unknown.
authors.forename: Michael L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Berumen
authors.affiliation: Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, 3215 Hull Rd, Gainesville, FL 32611, U.S.A.; Email: unknown.
authors.forename: Gustav
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Paulay
mesh_terms: D063147:Animal Distribution; D000825:Animal Structures / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000254:growth & development; D000818:Animals; D049628:Body Size; D003386:Brachyura / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000145:classification* / Q000254:growth & development; D005260:Female; D019156:Indian Ocean; D008297:Male; D009929:Organ Size