Two axiidean ghost shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda) from India, Guyanacaris keralam sp. nov. (Axiidae) and Paragourretia galathea (K. Sakai, 2017) (Ctenochelidae) Author Padate, Vinay P. 0000-0002-2244-8338 Centre for Marine Living Resources & Ecology, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India, Atal Bhavan, LNG Terminus Road, Puthuvype, Kochi, 682508, India. & vinaypadate @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 2244 - 8338 vinaypadate@gmail.com Author Cubelio, Sherine Sonia Centre for Marine Living Resources & Ecology, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India, Atal Bhavan, LNG Terminus Road, Puthuvype, Kochi, 682508, India. Author Takeda, Masatsune 0000-0002-0028-1397 Department of Zoology, National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo. 4 - 1 - 1 Amakubo, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305 - 0005, Japan. takeda @ kahaku. go. jp; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 0028 - 1397 takeda@kahaku.go.jp text Zootaxa 2022 2022-01-26 5093 2 195 217 journal article 2408 10.11646/zootaxa.5093.2.4 a29a1307-a6a4-4198-8653-e79c13f4d008 1175-5326 5905225 FA40C88B-9784-4DC0-9109-90936BAFE808 Genus Guyanacaris K. Sakai, 2011 Guyanacaris K. Sakai, 2011: 119 . Type species: Calocaris (Calastacus) hirsutimana Boesch & Smalley, 1972 , by original designation, gender feminine. Neoaxius Sakai, 2017a: 504 . Type species: Neoaxius nicoyaensis Sakai, 2017 , by original designation and monotypy, gender masculine. Diagnosis: Carapace smooth or spinose. Rostrum spine-like, narrow, slightly shorter to slightly longer than eyestalks, slightly depressed, continuous with lateral carinae laterally denticulate; supraocular spines short; gastric carinae spinose, lateral gastric carina converging anteriorly on supraocular spines; postcervical carina present. Pleonal 1 pleuron acute (or obtuse), margin dentate; pleuron 2 broad, less rounded anteriorly and posteriorly, ventral margin truncate, margins dentate or smooth; posterior margins of pleura 3–5 angular to almost straight, dentate or smooth; pleonal 1–5 terga and pleura separated by weak longitudinal carinae. Eyestalk cylindrical, articulating; cornea pigmented. Antennal scaphocerite short, gently curved, with mesial spine at base; distal spine on antennal article 2 directed anteriorly (or anteromesially) and acute. Maxilliped 3 exopod not clearly bent at base of flagellum. Pleurobranchs absent; podobranchs and arthrobranchs well developed; epipods present on maxilliped 2 to P4. P1 unequal or subequal, asymmetrical, with propodus subcylindrical; carpus-dactylus upper margins prominently spinose (or unarmed). P3–5 propodi with (or without) transverse rows of robust setae; dactyli tapering, with or without longitudinal row of robust setae. Pleopods 3–5 appendix interna present. Male pleopod 1 present; pleopod 2 with appendix masculina. Uropodal exopod with transverse suture. Telson with lateral fixed spines, posterolateral robust setae absent (or present); apex truncate-rounded to nearly straight ( Sakai 2011 ; Poore 2020 ).