A first report of Canuellina insignis Gurrney, 1927 (Canuellidae: Copepoda) from The Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman

چکیده مقاله

The following report deals with littoral copepods collected from the northern part of the Persian
Gulf and Gulf of Oman. Copepods taken from sediments and weed-washing, belonged to the
Canuellidae Lang, 1944. Currently, the family accommodated 19 genera and 59 species (Song et al.,
2018; Nazari et al, 2018). In the prior study on meiobenthic copepods, three new species belonging
to the family Canuellidae were described from the region for the first time (Nazari et al., 2018). The
genus Canuellina Gurney, 1927, totally, distributed mostly in northwestern Indo-Pacific Ocean
(Gurney, 1927; Por, 1967, 1969, 1983). Only one species, C. nicobaris (Wells & Rao, 1987), was
reported from Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Previously, Caniellina insignis was reported from the
Suez Canal (Gurney, 1927) and Inhaca Island of Mozambique (Wells, 1967). Recently, C. insignis, was
found and reported here. Therefore, the number of Canuellid species in the area increase to four
species.