Neocallichirus jousseaumei (Nobili, 1904)

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 : 18

Neocallichirus jousseaumei (Nobili, 1904)

Persian Gulf. UAE [ Sakai & Apel (2002) as Neocallichirus indicus (De Man, 1905) ], Iran [ Sepahvand & Sari (2010) as Neocallichirus indicus (De Man, 1905) ; present study].

Iran. Hormozgan Province: Qeshm I. (Zeytun Park Beach, desalination center, Tula, Salakh, Laft).

General distribution. Indo-West Pacific: Red Sea, Djibouti, Gulf of Tadjourah, Socotra, Persian Gulf, Pakistan, Thailand, Ryukyu Is. ( Japan), Philippines, Indonesia, French Polynesia.

Habitat. Rocky/cobble intertidal.

Remarks. Recently, Dworschak (2011) synonymized N. indicus with Neocallichirus jousseaumei Nobili, 1904 . He described and depicted a large variation within the species. He mentioned that N. jousseaumei is a junior subjective synonym of N. indicus , whereas N. jousseaumei is the senior subjective synonym of the latter and consequently was synonymized by Dworschak (2011). There is a serious error in his paper; for jousseaumei it should read “senior” instead of “junior” as evidenced by date of authors and text of the paper.