Phymodius drachi Guinot, 1964

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 : 45

Phymodius drachi Guinot, 1964

Persian Gulf. Saudi Arabia ( Apel 2001), UAE [ Nobili (1906a) as Phymodius ungulates (H. Milne Edwards, 1834) ; Titgen (1982) as P. granulatus Targioni-Tozzetti, 1877 ; Apel (2001)], Iran [ Stephensen (1946) as P. granulatus Targioni-Tozzetti, 1877 ; present study].

Iran. Hormozgan Province: Qeshm I. (two stations along the south coast) . Bushehr Province: Bushehr (Jofreh), Kharg I. ( Stephensen 1946) .

General distribution. Western Indian Ocean: East Africa, Madagascar, Comoros, Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman.

Habitat. Rocky/cobble intertidal, coral reefs to 3 m.

Remarks. Apel (2001) mentioned that all records of the genus Phymodius from the Persian Gulf belong to P. drachi . The present specimens from the Iranian coast confirm the occurrence of the species in the Persian Gulf. Phymodius drachi has already been recorded from the Gulf of Oman by Hogarth (1989) and Apel (2001).