Athanas djiboutensis Coutière, 1897

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 : 12

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3374.1.1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5255517

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scientific name

Athanas djiboutensis Coutière, 1897
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Athanas djiboutensis Coutière, 1897 View in CoL

Persian Gulf. First Persian Gulf record.

Iran. Hormozgan Province: Qeshm I. (Dustku).

General distribution. Indo-West Pacific: Mozambique, Red Sea, Djibouti, Persian Gulf, Maldives, Lakshadweep, Indonesia, Christmas I., Australia (Great Barrier Reef), Coral Sea Is., Marianas, Marshall Islands, Wake ( Guam), Fiji, Tonga, Tuvalu, Samoa, Cook Is., Phoenix Is., Tuamotus, Tahiti, Marquesas Is.

Habitat. Rocky/cobble intertidal.

Remarks. This species is easily distinguishable from the three other congeners recorded by the presence of a distinct supracorneal spine. An ovigerous female (SMF 34717) collected by M. Apel from the Saudi Arabian coast of the Persian Gulf was also identified as A. djiboutensis .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Alpheidae

Genus

Athanas

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