A revised list of all ghost shrimps (Callianassidea and Thalassinidea1) (Decapoda, Pleocyemata) from the Red Sea area, with a new genus, Lepidophthalminus gen. nov. and two new species in the genera Gilvossius and Neocallichirus

Up to the present, 31 species of the infraorders Callianassidea Dana, 1852, and Thalassinidea Latreille, 1831 have been reported from the Red Sea area, of which nine, viz., Gilvossius bouvieri (Nobili, 1904), G. gravieri (Nobili, 1905), G. maldivensis (Borradaile, 1904), Notiax amboinensis (De Man, 1888), Lepidophthalmus rosae (Nobili, 1904), Neocallichirus caimani (Nobili, 1904), N. indicus (De Man, 1905), N. vaugelasi Dworschak, 2011, and Podocallichirus madagassus (Lenz & Richters, 1881), are reviewed in this paper for further unambiguous classification and identification. As a result of this review, one new genus, Lepidophthalminus gen. nov. and two new species, Gilvossius chichijimaensis sp. nov. and Neocallichirus kenyaensis sp. nov., are here proposed.