Hasan, Amal HajiyaVan der Aa, PierrotKüpper, Frithjof C.Al-Bader, DhiaPeters, Akira F.2022-10-172022-10-172022-10Hasan, A H, Van der Aa, P, Küpper, F C, Al-Bader, D & Peters, A F 2022, 'Kuwaitiella rubra gen. et sp. nov. (Bangiales, Rhodophyta), a new filamentous genus and species from the north-western Indian Ocean', Phycological Research, vol. 70, no. 4, pp. 192-202. https://doi.org/10.1111/pre.124981322-0829RIS: urn:FD494D33E77F1A7F3793774CD308279Ahttps://hdl.handle.net/2164/19385ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Many thanks to Bivin Thomas, Pupa Kumai and Hedda Weitz for helping in the laboratory and improving this manuscript, to Ioanna Kosma for diving, to Yusuf Buhadi for assistance during field work, archiving and preparation of herbarium specimens, and to Tatiana Mikhaylova for micrographs of previously collected filamentous red algae from Kuwait. We are grateful to La′ala Kuwait Real Estate Company and especially Mr. Fawaz Al-Marzouq for providing the salinity data. The present work is part of MHH's PhD thesis ‘Macroalgal biodiversity of Kuwait, with special emphasis on the vicinity of desalination plants’ funded by a PhD fellowship from the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences. FCK received support from the Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland pooling initiative. MASTS is funded by the Scottish Funding Council (grant reference HR09011) and contributing institutions. Work of AFP was in part supported by the project IDEALG (France: ANR-10-BTBR-04). Research Funding Agence Nationale de la Recherche. Grant Number: 10-BTBR-04 Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland IDEALG. Grant Number: ANR-10-BTBR-04 Scottish Funding Council. Grant Number: HR09011 Marine Alliance for Science and Technology Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences106590527engSDG 14 - Life Below WaterBangiaKuwaitplastid ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase large subunit (rbcL)small subunit ribosomal DNA (nrSSU)RhodophytaQH301 BiologyQH301Journal article10.1111/pre.12498704