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Schizophrys aspera

Description

Schizophrys aspera (H. Milne Edwards, 1834)

Persian Gulf. Saudi Arabia (Basson et al. 1977), UAE (Nobili, 1906a), Iran (Present study).

Iran. Hormozgan Province: Qeshm I. (two stations along the south coast), Moghdan (Parsian).

General distribution. Indo-West Pacific: East Africa, Red Sea, southern Oman (Dhofar), Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, Pakistan, Andaman, Sea, Malaysia, Thailand, China, Japan, Indonesia, Christmas I., Australia (Western Australia, Queensland, NSW, Southern Austrlia), Fiji, Hawaiian Is.

Habitat. Rocky intertidal.

Remarks. Schizophrys aspera has been first recorded by Nobili (1906a) from the Persian Gulf in the UAE. Tirmizi & Kazmi (1995) described a new species of the genus, Schizophrys pakistanensis, from the Pakistan waters, which is very similar to S. aspera. Apel (2001) collected S. pakistanensis from the Saudi Arabian coast and discussed that more probably the record of S. aspera by Basson et al. (1977) from Saudi Arabia could be assigned to S. pakistanensis. We did not collect S. pakistanensis during the present study, whereas the record of S. aspera is new to the Iranian coast.

Notes

Published as part of Naderloo, Reza & Türkay, Michael, 2012, Decapod crustaceans of the littoral and shallow sublittoral Iranian coast of the Persian Gulf: Faunistics, Biodiversity and Zoogeography 3374, pp. 1-67 in Zootaxa 3374 (1) on page 36, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3374.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5253502

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
H. Milne Edwards
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Decapoda
Family
Majidae
Genus
Schizophrys
Species
aspera
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Schizophrys aspera (Edwards, 1834) sec. Naderloo & Türkay, 2012

References

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Tirmizi, N. M. & Kazmi, Q. B. (1995) A new species of Schizophrys from Pakistan with a note on Schizophrys aspera (Crustacea: Decapoda: Majidae). In: Thompson, M. - F. & Tirmizi, N. M. (eds.): The Arabian Sea - Living marine resources and the environment. Oxford & IBH Publishing Co., New Delhi, 135 - 141.
  • 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.