Petrolisthes leptocheles ( Heller, 1861 )

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 : 21

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scientific name	Petrolisthes leptocheles ( Heller, 1861 )
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Persian Gulf. Iran (Heller 1961; Haig 1966; Apel 2001; present study).

Iran. Hormozgan Province: Qeshm I. (12 stations around the island), Mahtabi, Moghdan . Bushehr Province: Dayyer, Bandargah, Bushehr (Jofreh).

General distribution. Northwestern Indian Ocean: Somalia, Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, southern Oman (Dhofar), Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, Pakistan.

Habitat. Rocky/cobble intertidal.

Remarks. This is one of the most common species of porcellanid crabs in rocky habitats along the Iranian coast. Interestingly, this species has still not been recorded from the Arabian coast. Apel (2001) did not find it neither at the Saudi Arabian and nor the UAE coasts in his extensive sampling.

References

Apel, M. (2001) Taxonomie und Zoogeographie der Brachyura, Paguridea und Porcellanidae (Crustacea: Decapoda) des Persisch-Arabischen Golfes. Unpublished doctoral thesis, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat, Frankfurt a. M., 268 pp.

Haig, J. (1966) The Porcellanidae (Crustacea, Anomura) of the Iranian Gulf and Gulf of Oman. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening i Kobenhaven, 129, 49 - 65.

Heller, C. (1861) Beitrage zur Crustaceen-Fauna des Rothen Meeres. I. Theil. Sitzungsberichte der mathematischnaturwissenschaftlichen Klasse der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften Wien, 43 (1), 297 - 374.