Actumnus tesselatus Alcock, 1898

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 : 36

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scientific name	Actumnus tesselatus Alcock, 1898
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Persian Gulf. UAE ( Nobili, 1906a), Iran ( Stephensen 1946). Alcock (1989) described this species from the Persian Gulf, without giving an exact locality.

Iran. Hormozgan Province: Kish I.

General distribution. Endemic: Persian Gulf.

Habitat. Stephensen (1946) recorded the present species from a sandy beach of Kish I., while Nobili’s (1906a) material came from Arzanah I. ( UAE) from an oyster bank at 20- 30 m.

Remarks. The genus Actumnus is represented by six species in the Persian Gulf ( Apel 2001; Naderloo & Ng 2011), of which A. tesselatus is the only one which has been recorded from the intertidal zone. Stephensen (1946) erroneously mentioned St. 54 of Qais I. (Kish I.) as locality for a single specimen of the species, whereas stations 41-42 of the Danish Expedition were in Kish I., and Station 54 was in Qeshm I. A new representative of the genus has recently been discovered from the Iranian waters of the Persian Gulf, namely Actumnus simplex Rathbun, 1911 , which was redescribed by Naderloo & Ng (2011).

References

Alcock, A. (1898) Material for a carcinological Fauna of India. No. 3: The Brachyura Cyclometopa. Part I. The family Xanthidae. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 67 (2), 67 - 233.

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 Unpublished doctoral thesis, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat, Frankfurt a. M., 268 pp.

Naderloo, R. & Ng, P. K. L (2011) Rediscovery of the rare pilumnid crab, Actumnus simplex Rathbun, 1911 (Decapoda, Brachyura) and a new record for the Persian Gulf. Crustaceana, 84 (12 - 13), 593 - 604.

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.