Hiplyra variegata (Rüppell, 1830)

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 : 31

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scientific name	Hiplyra variegata (Rüppell, 1830)
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Persian Gulf. UAE ( Apel 2001; Naderloo & Apel 2012), Iran (Stephesnen 1946; Naderloo & Apel 2012; present study).

Iran. Hormozgan Province: Qeshm I. (Suza) . Bushehr Province: Bushehr (Jofreh).

General distribution. Western Indian Ocean: East Africa ( Mombasa, Kenya), Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman.

Habitat. Sandy intertidal to 56 m.

Remarks. Galil (2009) recently partly revised the genus Philyra Leach, 1817 , introducing seven new genera within the genus. She clarified the taxonomic position of the some important species, which have already been known from the Persian Gulf. For instance, several authors (e. g. Alcock 1896; Guinot, 1967; Basson et al. 1977; Titgen 1982) have recorded Philyra platycheir De Haan, 1847 , from the Persian Gulf and Tirmizi & Ghani (1986) from Pakistan, but Galil (2009) introduced the new genus Hiplyra Galil, 2009 , for the species and restricted its distribution to Japan, China and Taiwan. Hiplyra variegata is the species distributed in the western Indian Ocean including the Persian Gulf, while H. platycheir is not present in the Indian Ocean.

References

Alcock, A. (1896) Material for a carcinological Fauna of India. No. 2: The Brachyura Oxystomata. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 65 (2), 134 - 296.

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 Unpublished doctoral thesis, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat, Frankfurt a. M., 268 pp.

Basson, P. W., Burchard, J. E., Hardy, J. T. & Price, A. R. G. (1977) Biotopes of the Western Arabian Gulf: Marine life and environments of Saudi Arabia. ARAMCO, Dept. of Loss Prevention and environmental affairs, Dhahran: 289 pp.

Galil, B. S. (2009) An examination of the genus Philyra Leach, 1817 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Leucosiidae) with description of seven new genera and six new species. Zoosystema, 31 (2), 279 - 320.

Guinot, D. (1967) La faune carcinologique (Crustacea, Brachyura) de l'Ocean Indien occidental et de la Mer Rouge. Catalogue remarques biogeographiques et bibliographie. Memoires de l'Institut fondamental d'Afrique noire, 77, 235 - 352.

Naderloo, R. & Apel, M. (2012) Leucosiid crabs of the genus Hiplyra Galil, 2009 (Crustacea; Brachyura; Leucosiidae) from the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman with describing a new species. Zoological studies, 52 (2), 248 - 258.

Titgen, R. H. (1982) The systematics and ecology of the Decapods of Dubai, and their zoogeographic relationships to the Persian Gulf and the Western Indian Ocean. Unpublished doctoral thesis, Texas A & M University, 292 pp.