Lydia tenax (Rüppell, 1830)

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 : 30

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3374.1.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5255634
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scientific name	Lydia tenax (Rüppell, 1830)
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Persian Gulf. UAE ( Hornby 1997), Iran ( Stephensen 1946; present study).

Iran. Hormozgan Province: Qeshm I. (Shib-Deraz), Hengam I. ( Stephensen 1946), Chiruyeh . Bushehr Province: Khalij-Nayband (Haleh).

General distribution. Western Indian Ocean: East Africa, Seychelles, Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, Socotra, southern Oman (Dhofar), Persian Guf, Pakistan.

Habitat. Rocky/cobble intertidal.

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.

Stephensen, K. (1946) The Brachyura of the Iranian Gulf. Danish Scientific Investigations in Iran, Part IV. E. Munksgaard, Copenhagen, 57 - 237.