The true identities of the slipper lobsters Nisto laevis and Nisto asper (Crustacea: Decapoda: Scyllaridae) verified by DNA analysis

Thanks are due to Dr Angelika Brandt for receiving FP at the Zoologisches Institut und Zoologisches Museum of the University of Hamburg and Dr Fátima Hernández for receiving FP at the Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Tenerife. We also thank Süphan Karaytuğ and Danièle Guinot for locating three references that were proving impossible to find in London and Barcelona. Thanks are due to Mrs Judith Gironés, Dr Marta Pascual and Dr Enrique Macpherson for encouraging the completion of this study and we acknowledge the helpful comments from three anonymous referees that improved the manuscript. Nistos of S. arctus were collected by PA during the cruise ARSA0308 performed on board R/V ‘Cornide de Saavedra’ and run by the Instituto Español de Oceanografía; we are grateful to its chief scientist, Dr Juan Gil, as well as to Jesús Canoura and the rest of members of this cruise. The nisto of S. pygmaeus was collected during the samplings performed in the frame of project LLUENTA (DGP-DAR-Generalitat de Catalunya); we are grateful to Dr Montserrat Ramón, Eva Pubill and Marc Baeta. We thank Charles Fransen for help with facilitating a couple of references. This work was supported by a pre-doctoral fellowship awarded by the Autonomous Government of Catalonia to FP (2006FIC-00082). Research was funded by projects CGL2006–13423 and CTM2004–05625 from the Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia and 119/2003 from the Spanish Ministerio de Medio Ambiente. FP and PA are part of the research groups 2005SGR-00191, 2005SGR-00277 and 2005SGR-00995 of the Generalitat de Catalunya. FP acknowledges EU-Synthesys grant (GB-TAF-1637).

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