Synalpheus hastilicrassus Coutière, 1905

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 : 13

Synalpheus hastilicrassus Coutière, 1905

Persian Gulf. First Persian Gulf record.

Iran. Hormozgan Province: Qeshm I. (Basaeedu).

General distribution. Indo-West Pacific: East Africa, Red Sea, Persian Gulf, Maldives Archipelago, Gulf of Manaar, Indonesia, Philippines, Australia (Northern Terrritory, Queensland) Fiji, Caroline Is., Marshal Islands,.

Habitat. Rocky Intertidal.

Remarks. This species is easily distinguishable from its two Persian Gulf congeners by the strongly projecting posterolateral angles of the telson, which forms a spine-shaped tooth. Banner & Banner (1975) described the variations in the posterolateral corners of the telson of Australian specimens. Such variations were not seen in the Persian Gulf specimens.