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<emphasis id="5BAA355BC62D1B18FF3CFA57FE0FFA56" bold="true" box="[151,394,1393,1419]" italics="true" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">Medaeops neglectus</emphasis>
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Persian
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.
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First Persian
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record.
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<collectingRegion id="AB1A27ABC62D1B18FEA1FAFBFE7CFA29" box="[266,505,1501,1524]" country="Iran" name="Hormozgan" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">Hormozgan Province</collectingRegion>
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: Qeshm I. (Zeytun Park Beach, Dustku).
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Western Indian Ocean: East Africa,
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,
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I., Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, Persian Guf, Gulf of
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.
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Rocky/cobble intertidal.
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<emphasis id="5BAA355BC62D1B18FF6CF94AFEBEF959" bold="true" box="[199,315,1644,1668]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="43" pageNumber="44" reason="1">Remarks.</emphasis>
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collected
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(
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and
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) from
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(
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) in the Persian Gulf and identified them as
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<emphasis id="5BAA355BC62D1B18FD80F9B7FDC7F975" box="[555,578,1681,1704]" italics="true" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">M</emphasis>
.
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(Haswell, 1882)
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. One of us (R.N.) examined his specimens and found that they are completely similar to the present ones from the Iranian coast and could be convincingly assigned to
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<emphasis id="5BAA355BC62D1B18FE83F9FFFEBAF92D" box="[296,319,1753,1776]" italics="true" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">M</emphasis>
.
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rather than to
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<emphasis id="5BAA355BC62D1B18FDD1F9FFFD14F92D" box="[634,657,1753,1776]" italics="true" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">M</emphasis>
.
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. The latter was recorded as
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<emphasis id="5BAA355BC62D1B18FB2FF9FEFAF7F92D" box="[1156,1394,1752,1776]" italics="true" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">Medaeus granulosus</emphasis>
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by
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from Jask at the Iranian coast of the Gulf of
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, which is supported after a re-examination of his material.
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material of
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<emphasis id="5BAA355BC62D1B18FD38F807FD2FF8E5" box="[659,682,1825,1848]" italics="true" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">M</emphasis>
.
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was collected by the Danish Expedition in the subtidal zone at
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depth and the locality is outside of the Persian Gulf. The genus
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<emphasis id="5BAA355BC62D1B18FBA6F862FB05F881" box="[1037,1152,1860,1884]" italics="true" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">Medaeops</emphasis>
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currently includes seven very closely related species, of which
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<emphasis id="5BAA355BC62D1B18FDE0F84EFC95F85D" box="[587,784,1896,1920]" italics="true" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">Medaeops potens</emphasis>
Mendoza, Chong &amp;
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, has a first male gonopod, which is very similar to that of
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<emphasis id="5BAA355BC62D1B18FE58F8ABFD8FF879" box="[499,522,1933,1956]" italics="true" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">M</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="5BAA355BC62D1B18FDB3F8AAFD07F879" box="[536,642,1932,1956]" italics="true" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">neglectus</emphasis>
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, but regarding morphological description and keys provided by
<bibRefCitation id="0D4F94B8C62D1B18FAE5F8AAFF66F815" author="Guinot, D." pageId="43" pageNumber="44" pagination="235 - 352" refId="ref47607" refString="Guinot, D. (1967) La faune carcinologique (Crustacea, Brachyura) de l'Ocean Indien occidental et de la Mer Rouge. Catalogue remarques biogeographiques et bibliographie. Memoires de l'Institut fondamental d'Afrique noire, 77, 235 - 352." type="journal article" year="1967">Guinot (1967)</bibRefCitation>
,
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, McLay &amp; Ng (2007) and Mendoza
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. (2009), the present specimens from the Iranian coast of the Persian Gulf can clearly be assigned to
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<emphasis id="5BAA355BC62D1B18FCA7F8F3FCA6F831" box="[780,803,2005,2028]" italics="true" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">M</emphasis>
.
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rather than any other congener.
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was recorded by
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from
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, and
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stated that their record of the species is correct, whereas the drawings provided by them are very similar to
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. A thorough taxonomic revision of the genus is needed in order to clarify the position of the different species of
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