Leptodius exaratus (H. Milne Edwards, 1834)
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Leptodius exaratus (H. Milne Edwards, 1834) |
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Leptodius exaratus (H. Milne Edwards, 1834) View in CoL
Persian Gulf. Kuwait ( Jones 1986a), Saudi Arabia ( Basson et al. 1977; Apel 2001), Bahrain ( Nobili 1906a; Stephensen 1946; Apel 2001), UAE ( Nobili 1906a; Titgen 1982; Hornby 1997; Apel 2001), Iran ( Stephensen 1946; present study).
Iran. Hormozgan Province: Qeshm I. (19 stations around the island), Bandar-Abbas, Baghestan, Bostanu , Mahtabi , Bandar-Kong , Bandar-Lengeh , Bandar-Divan , Bandar-Hassineh , Bandar-Charak , Chiruyeh , Bandar- Mogham , Moghdan . Bushehr Province: Khalij-Nayband (Haleh), Nakhl-Naghi, Bandar-Dayyer, Chapahn , Bandargah , Bushehr (Jofreh), Chahak, Chah-Shur, Bandar-Emam Hassan . Khuzestan Province: Bandar-Emam .
General distribution. Indo-West Pacific: South Africa, East Africa, Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles, Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, Socotra, southern Oman (Dhofar), Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, Pakistan, India ( Bombay), Sri Lanka, Bay of Bengal, Mergui Archipelago, Christmas I., Middleton & Elisabeth Reefs, Australia (Western Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland, NSW), Hawaiian Is.
Habitat. Rocky/cobble intertidal.
Remarks. Leptodius exaratus is one of the most common brachyuran species found on intertidal rocky shores along the Persian Gulf coast. This species shows a wide variability of colour patterns. The first male gonopod is a good and constant character for the identification of this species.
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 Unpublished doctoral thesis, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat, Frankfurt a. M., 268 pp.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.
Hornby, R. (1997) A survey of the habitats, invertebrate fauna and environmental sensitivity of the mainland coast of the UAE, with information on status and distribution of Crustaceans. TRIBULUS, Bulletin of the Emirates Natural History Group, 7 (2), 11 - 17.
Jones, D. A. (1986 a) A field guide to the sea shores of Kuwait and the Persian Gulf. University of Kuwait Blandford Press, Poole, Kuwait, 192 pp.
Nobili, G. (1906 a) Crustaces decapodes et stomatopodes. In: Mission J. Bonnier et Ch. Perez (Golfe Persique, 1901). Bulletin Scientifique de la France et de la Belgique, 40, 13 - 159, pls. 2 - 7.
Stephensen, K. (1946) The Brachyura of the Iranian Gulf. Danish Scientific Investigations in Iran, Part IV. E. Munksgaard, Copenhagen, 57 - 237.
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.
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