Corallianassa martensi Miers 1884

Corallianassa martensi Miers, 1884 Figs 2A, B, 3. MATERIAL EXAMINED. ♂, Cat no. MRCC-UOK-THAL-02, Northern Arabian Sea, Pakistan, along the Karachi coast, Buleji, 24°50′20.41″ N 66°49′24.15″ E, soft bottom habitats, collected with a hand net under rock boulder, 23 January 2023. BRIEF DESCRIPTION. Body long with yellowish translucent. Carapace whitish with tinge of yellowish on rostrum to post-rostral area and transverse band of similar color medially on dorsal oval; lateral spines are stout, well developed and articulate. Rostrum pointed at tip and extends beyond midlength of eyes. Eyes stout, not reaching distal margin of basal antennular segment; cornea dark, bulging and sub-terminal.Antennular peduncle extends only trifle beyond penultimate segment of antenna; terminal segment of antennule longer than second segment. Left cheliped I wanting; right cheliped I strong and unarmed. Chelae and carpi of chelipeds II mottled with white and yellow-brown; merus with tinge of yellow-brown distodorsally; fingers of cheliped II longer than palm. First abdominal segment bell-shaped; second segment large, being half as long as first one. Telson less than half length of last abdominal segment. Inner margin of exopod of uropod deeply concave; with well-developed truncate apically (not sharp spine) process near proximal end of posterior margin; endopod short and more or less triangular. SIZE. The total body length of the collected ♂ is 12 cm. HABITAT. The ghost shrimp was collected in a shallow intertidal area, hiding in the muddy sand under the small rock boulder. DISTRIBUTION. Widely distributed Indo-Western Pacific species, presently known from Mauritius (type locality), Chabahar Iran, Gulf of Oman, Pakistan (Northern Arabian Sea), Sri Lanka, southern Japan, Cocos Islands, Indonesia (Ambon) and Australia (Queensland).