Pilumnidae Samouelle, 1819 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Pilumnidae) of the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, with a note on their phylogeny Author Fahimi, Neda Department of Marine Biology, Khorramshahr University of Marine Science and Technology, Author Naderloo, Reza School of Biology and Centre of Excellence in Phylogeny of Living Organisms, College of Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran. rnaderloo @ ut. ac. ir text Zootaxa 2023 2023-04-13 5264 2 256 274 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5264.2.6 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.5264.2.6 1175-5326 9417019C-BF0D-4FE6-A963-1B304E2071D5 Eurycarcinus orientalis A. Milne-Edwards 1867 Eurycarcinus orientalis A. Milne-Edwards, 1867: 277 .— Jones 1986a: 162 , pl. 47.—Vousden 1987: 36, tabs. 4, 7.—Apel & Türkay 1992: 194, 204, 205.—Ismail & Ahmed 1993: 158.— Apel 1994a: 43 , 44; 1994b: 411, 412, 433, 434.—Hywel- Davies 1994: 37, 48.— Apel 1996 b: 330, 331.— Al-Khayat & Jones 1996: 806 , fig. 5.— Tirmizi & Ghani 1996: 30–32 , fig. 10.— Cooper 1997: 168–170 , figs. 4, 5, 15.—Hornby 1997: 16 (partly).— Al-Khayat & Jones 1999: 58 , 61.— Apel 2001: 97 , 98.—Ng et al. 2008: 140 (in list).— Naderloo & Türkay 2012: 36 .— Naderloo et al. 2013: 449 .— Naderloo 2017: 303 , figs. 26.10c. 26.13.— Trivedi et al. 2021: 6 , fig. 6. Material examined. 1 male , CL 24.31 mm , CW 31.29 mm ( ZUTC 5151 ), Hormoz I. , Persian Gulf , 27°02′N , 56°29′E , muddy/mangrove, coll. R . Naderloo , 24.11.2003 ; 2 females , CL 18.1–24.6 mm , CW 21.30–28.90 mm ( ZUTC 5116 ), Qeshm I., Persian Gulf , 26°44′N , 55°52′E , muddy/mangrove, coll. R . Naderloo , 28.11.2005 ; 2 males , CL 14.10–18.60 mm , CW 15.30–21.90 mm ( ZUTC 5201 ), Basaidu , Qeshm I., Persian Gulf , 26°39′N , 55°15′E , muddy/coral, coll. H. Salehi , 03.12.2018 ; 5 males , CL 9.90–15.34 mm , CW 13.30–20.27 mm ( ZUTC 5090 ), Sarbandar , Persian Gulf , 30°29′N , 49°04′E , muddy/coral, coll. H. Salehi , 24.11.2002 ; 1 male , CL 20.31 mm , CW 31.28 mm , Bandar-Mahshahr , Persian Gulf , 30°28′N , 38°10′E , muddy/mangrove, coll. R . Naderloo & S. Ebrahimnejad , 21.12.2018 . Distribution. Indo-West Pacific: Gulf of Aden, Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman , South Africa , Pakistan , India .