Elamena sindensis Alcock, 1900

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 : 33

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Persian Gulf. Kuwait ( Chopra & Das 1930), Saudi Arabia ( Basson et al. 1977; Apel 2001), Iran ( Stephensen 1946; present study).

Iran. Hormozgan Province: Qeshm I. (two stations along the south coast) . Bushehr Province: Khalij-Nayband (Haleh).

General distribution. Northwestern Indian Ocean: Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, Pakistan, India ( Bombay), Sri Lanka.

Habitat. Rocky/cobble intertidal, found attached to algae or sea weeds.

Remarks. Elamena sindensis is the only species of the family Hymenosomatidae occurring along the intertidal region of the Persian Gulf. Chopra & Das (1930) described another species of the family, Neorhynchoplax kempi ( Chopra & Das, 1930) , from Shat al-Arab freshwater marshes in Iraq, about 70 miles off the sea.

References

Alcock, A. (1900) Material for a carcinological Fauna of India. No. 6: The Brachyura Catometopa, or Grapsoidea. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 69 (2), 279 - 456.

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 Unpublished doctoral thesis, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat, Frankfurt a. M., 268 pp.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

Chopra, B. & Das, K. N. (1930) Further notes on Crustacea Decapoda in the Indian Museum. I. On two new species of Hymenosomatid crabs, with notes on some other species. Records of the Indian Museum Calcutta, 32, 413 - 429.

Stephensen, K. (1946) The Brachyura of the Iranian Gulf. Danish Scientific Investigations in Iran, Part IV. E. Munksgaard, Copenhagen, 57 - 237.