Alpheus lobidens De Haan, 1850

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 : 10

Alpheus lobidens De Haan, 1850

Persian Gulf. Kuwait ( Jones 1986a); Iran (present study). Banner & Banner (1981) recorded from the Danish Expedition collection without giving exact locality.

Iran. Hormozgan Province: Kolahi, Bandar-Tiab, Qeshm I. (27 stations around the island), Hengam I., Bandar-Abbas, Badnar-Khamir, Mahtabi, Bandar-Lengeh . Bushehr Province: Khalij-Nayband, Bandar-Banak, Bandar-Dayyer, Bordehkhun Kohneh, Mond, Delvar (Eli Village), Chapahn, Bandar-Delvar , Bandargah , Bushehr, Ramleh, Bandar-Rig, Laylatayn, Bavirat, Emamzadeh Shah-Abdollah . Khuzestan Province: Hendijan, Bandar- Mahshahr (Fishery Jetty of Majdieh), Bandar-Emam, Arvandkenar ( Fishery Jetty ) .

General distribution. Indo-West Pacific: Widely distributed across the Indo-West Pacific; South Africa, Red Sea (type locality) through Indian Ocean to the Hawaiian Is.; also recorded from Tunisia in the Mediterranean Sea under A. crassimanus (see Banner & Banner 1981; Chace 1988). This species entered the Mediterranean as an Erythrean alien by way of the Suez Canal ( Galil 2011).

Habitat. Muddy intertidal, estuaries, mangroves, rocky/cobble intrtidal.

Remarks. Banner & Banner (1981) discussed the wide variations among different populations of this widely distributed species. They listed six distinct morphological characters among Red Sea specimens and differences between Red Sea material and other regions and concluded that there are different gene pools in different locations that are reflected by some distinct morphological characters. Banner & Banner (1981) also noticed remarkable colour variations among different specimens from the same locality in the Red Sea, which was also observed in the Persian Gulf specimens collected in this study.