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
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Zootaxa
2012
2012-07-04
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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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Actumnus tesselatus
Alcock, 1898
Persian Gulf.
UAE
(
Nobili, 1906a
),
Iran
(
Stephensen 1946
). Alcock (1989) described this species from the Persian Gulf, without giving an exact locality.
Iran
.
Hormozgan Province
: Kish I.
General distribution.
Endemic: Persian
Gulf
.
Habitat.
Stephensen (1946)
recorded the present species from a sandy beach of Kish I., while
Nobili’s (1906a)
material came from Arzanah I. (
UAE
) from an oyster bank at
20-
30 m
.
Remarks.
The genus
Actumnus
is represented by six species in the Persian Gulf (
Apel 2001
;
Naderloo & Ng 2011
), of which
A. tesselatus
is the only one which has been recorded from the intertidal zone.
Stephensen (1946)
erroneously mentioned St. 54 of Qais I. (Kish I.) as locality for a single specimen of the species, whereas stations 41-42 of the Danish Expedition were in Kish I., and Station 54 was in
Qeshm
I. A new representative of the genus has recently been discovered from the Iranian waters of the Persian Gulf, namely
Actumnus simplex
Rathbun, 1911
, which was redescribed by
Naderloo & Ng (2011)
.