Polyonyx loimicola Sankolli, 1965

Naderloo, Reza & Türkay, Michael, 2012, Decapod crustaceans of the littoral and shallow sublittoral Iranian coast of the Persian Gulf: Faunistics, Biodiversity and Zoogeography 3374, Zootaxa 3374 (1), pp. 1-67 : 22

Polyonyx loimicola Sankolli, 1965

Persian Gulf. First Persian Gulf record.

Iran. Hormozgan Province: Qeshm I. (Dargahan, Kuweii).

General distribution. Northwestern Indian Ocean: Persian Gulf, Pakistan, India.

Habitat. Muddy-sand intertidal.

Remarks. Sankolli (1965) described P. loimicola from India. Tirmizi et al. (1989) recorded it from Pakistan in Guadr Bay in the vicinity of Iranian border. In the present study, this rare species was found buried in the sandy/ muddy substrate mixed with shell fragments, which is the typical habitat of the thalassinid shrimps of Upogebia carinicauda in the Persian Gulf.