Decapod crustaceans of the littoral and shallow sublittoral Iranian coast of the Persian Gulf: Faunistics, Biodiversity and Zoogeography 3374
Author
Naderloo, Reza
Author
Türkay, Michael
text
Zootaxa
2012
2012-07-04
3374
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https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3374.1.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3374.1.1
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Pilumnus incanus
(Forskål, 1775)
Persian
Gulf
.
First Persian
Gulf
record.
Iran
.
Hormozgan Province
: Moghdan (Parsian).
General distribution.
Northwestern
Indian Ocean: Red Sea, Persian
Gulf
.
Habitat.
Rocky/cobble.
Remarks.
A single male collected in the present study is generally identical with descriptions provided by
Nobili (1906b)
for
Pilumnus forskalii
H. Milne Edwards, 1834
, and
Klunzinger (1913)
for
Pilumnus incanus
(Forskål, 1775)
.
Ng
et al
. (2008)
discussed on the synonymies of the two names, and they have regarded
P. incanus
(Forskål, 1775)
, as senior subjective synonym of
P
.
forskalii
H. Milne Edwards, 1834
. This species has been briefly described and inadequately figured, therefore it must be redescribed again.