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Pilumnus longicornis Hilgendorf 1879

Description

Pilumnus longicornis Hilgendorf, 1879

Persian Gulf. Kuwait (Jones 1986a), Saudi Arabia (Basson et al. 1977), Bahrain (Stephensen 1946), UAE (Hornby 1997), Iran (Stephensen 1946; Naderloo & Sari 2007b; present study).

Iran. Hormozgan Province: Qeshm I. (Basaeedu, Dustku), Moghdan. Bushehr Province: Bushehr (Jofreh), Kharg I.

General distribution. Indo-West Pacific: South Africa, East Africa, Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles, Red Sea, Persian Gulf, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Diego Garcia, Cargados Carajos, Saya de Malha, Mergui Archipelago, Philippines, Celebes, Indonesia (Java), Singapore, Australia (Western Australia, Queensland); New Zealand.

Habitat. Rocky/cobble intertidal to 33 m. Stephensen (1946) and Naderloo & Sari (2007b) recorded the species from shells/gravel substrate in subtidal zone.

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 pages 38-39, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3374.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5253502

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Hilgendorf
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Decapoda
Family
Pilumnidae
Genus
Pilumnus
Species
longicornis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Pilumnus longicornis Hilgendorf, 1879 sec. Naderloo & Türkay, 2012

References

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Stephensen, K. (1946) The Brachyura of the Iranian Gulf. Danish Scientific Investigations in Iran, Part IV. E. Munksgaard, Copenhagen, 57 - 237.
  • 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.
  • Naderloo, R. & Sari, A. (2007 b) Subtidal crabs of the Iranian coast of the Persian Gulf. New collections and biogeographic considerations. Aquatic Ecosystem Health & Management, 10 (3), 341 - 349.