Gourretia portsudanensis (Sakai, 2005) Dworschak & Poore, 2018

Dworschak, Peter C. & Poore, Gary C. B., 2018, More cautionary tales: family, generic and species synonymies of recently published taxa of ghost and mud shrimps (Decapoda: Axiidea and Gebiidea), Zootaxa 4394 (1), pp. 61-76 : 68

Gourretia portsudanensis (Sakai, 2005) comb. nov.

Pseudogourretia portsudanensis Sakai, 2005: 231 –234, fig. 42.

Material examined. Holotype, Red Sea, Port Sudan, SMF 28105 (male, 8.2 mm, lacking pleomere 2 to telson, chelipeds).

Remarks. During our careful dissection of the holotype (stained with methyl blue) we could not detect any pleurobranchs. Pseudogourretia and Pseudogourretiinae are therefore synonymised with Gourretia and Gourretiidae , respectively. Similar species of Gourretia (with a spine on merus of maxilliped 3 and a linear pereopod 3 propodus) are G. laevidactyla Liu & Liu, 2010 and G. phuketensis Sakai, 2002 , both from the Indo-West Pacific.