Salmoneus gracilipes , Miya 1972

Salmoneus gracilipes Miya, 1972 Figs. 5–8 Salmoneus gracilipes Miya 1972: 38, pl. 3; Miya 1984: 86, figs. 4a–d; Miya 1995: 287; Hayashi 1995: 522, figs. 287b, 288c–f; Anker 2001: (vol. 2) 272; Koo & Kim 2003: fig. 1; Anker 2003: 114 (key); Naderloo & Türkay 2012: 13; Naderloo et al. 2013: 448; Anker et al. 2015: 326, fig. 19; Ďuriš & Horká 2016: 12, fig. 11e [see Remarks below]. Material examined. Kuwait: 1 non-ovigerous specimen (cl 3.7 mm), OUMNH. ZC. 2020.01.046, Failaka Island, eastern side, 29°23.409’N 48° 23.927’E, mixed rocky-muddy intertidal, muddy patches between rocks, depth less than 0.3 m, suction (yabby) pump, in burrow of echiuran, Listriolobus cf. brevirostris, leg. A. Anker, 3 October 2019 [fcn KUW-070]; 1 ovigerous specimen (cl 4.9 mm), OUMNH. ZC. 2020.01.047, Kubbar Island, 29°04’06.30’’N 48°29’21.88’’E, depth 7 m, sand slope with dead coral “bommies”, under rocks and rubble, leg. S. De Grave, 26 September 2019 [fcn KUW-015]; 1 ovigerous specimen (cl 4.5 mm), OUMNH. ZC. 2020.01.048, same collection as for previous specimen [fcn KUW-016]. Japan: 1 non-ovigerous specimen (cl 4.9 mm), CBM-ZC 14185, Honshu, Chiba Prefecture, Tateyama, Okinoshima, 34°59.28’N 139°49.35’E, intertidal, sand, under rock, leg. T. Komai, 7 April 2015 [material examined at our request by Dr. Tomoyuki Komai]. Description. See Miya (1972), Hayashi (1995, in Japanese) and Koo & Kim (2003); taxonomically most important morphologically features of the Kuwaiti specimens shown in Fig. 5. Colouration. Originally described as entirely transparent, with dull reddish orange cornea and yellowish orange eggs (Miya 1972), generally corresponding well to the colour of the Kuwaiti specimens, especially the two ovigerous specimens from Kubbar Island (Fig. 6A, B), as well as the material from Tateyama, Japan (Fig. 8), Indonesia (Anker et al. 2015: fig. 19) and Papua New Guinea (Ďuriš & Horká 2016: fig. 11e). In the Kuwaiti specimens, the background colour varies from white to pale yellowish and eggs in ovigerous ...