These are some pictures of crabs and I also have a lot species of isopods

Hi Najat,

You collected some beautiful crabs, Congratulations.

I think you can find good information about your collected species in (BRACHYURA COLLECTED DURING THE THAI-DANISH EXPEDITION (1966) by R. Serene and C.L Soh).

Good luck

Thank you for your answers ,

molecular identification method is too difficult because I collected my samples scenes 2005 and I kept them in 70% Alcohol.

I also need specialist  to help me with the isopods and amphipods.

Preservation in alcohol I think is good for DNA extration.

Alcohol is good for DNA extraction as you said  but we didn't use molecular identification in our laboratory and I don't have enough fund and time.

your first photo looks to be Oreophorus horridus but you will need to check that against the descriptions of that species.  All these are Leucosiidae for which Bella Galil is probably the best person to contact.  She has published several records of leucosiid species from the Gulf which are reviewed in:

Galil, BS, Ashelby, CW & Clark, PF.  (2012) New records of four leucosiid species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Leucosiidae) from Qatar, Persian Gulf.  Marine Biodiversity Records 5(e84): 1-4.

thank you Christopher. I will check that and try to contact with Bella Galil and hopefully she can help me.

kindly see my publications on crabs,They might be of some help

Hi

I think if you check the publications of Reza Naderloo on the Gulf Brachyura you almost can identify your crabs. 

and the Field guide from Kuwait by David Jones can also help.

Dear Adnan,

thank you for your advice and I checked the publications of Reza Naderloo on the Gulf Brachyura  and it was useful and I also have the Field guide from Kuwait by David Jones but I have many species which they are not mentioned in his value book.   

If you want to have some papers on Leucosid crabs of the Persian Gulf, please send your request to [email protected]

Best regards

S.E 

Dear Najat

May be I can help u in your decapods and stomatopods

Dear Saeed,

thank you for your offer I appreciate it and I will send the email.

Dear Quddusi,

thank you very much and I will contact with you.

Hello Najat, i m working on marine crustacean as well, if you want send me picture, maybe i can give you one hand to recognize them . I put  here in attachment a good guidelines for brachyurans, for my work it was useful!

Dear Annalisa Patania,

Thank you very much the guideline was very useful and  I appreciate your help and I will contact with you and I will send the pictures as soon as possible.