Thalamita savignyi A. Milne-Edwards, 1861

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 : 42

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scientific name	Thalamita savignyi A. Milne-Edwards, 1861
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Persian Gulf. Saudi Arabia ( Apel & Spiridonov 1998; Apel 2001), UAE ( Nobili 1906a; Apel & Spiridonov 1998; Apel 2001), Iran (present study). Alcock (1899) recorded this species from the Persian Gulf without exact locality.

Iran. Hormozgan Province: Qeshm I. (Suza) . Bushehr Province: Khalij-Nayband (Haleh).

General distribution. Western Indian Ocean: East Africa ( Zanzibar), Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, Persian Gulf.

Habitat. Rocky/cobble intertidal to 10 m.

Remarks. Apel & Spiridonov (1998) believed that several records of T. admete (Alcock 1899; Stephenson 1976; Basson et al. 1977; Titgen 1982) from the Persian Gulf were most probably based upon misidentifications of T. savignyi . Thalamita savignyi is very closely related to T. admete , its sympatric congener in the Persian Gulf. Detailed taxonomic remarks distinguishing these two species have been provided by Apel & Spiridonov (1998: 270, tab. 4). They discussed on the distribution of the species in Indian Ocean and mentioned that the record of T. savignyi from the east coast of Africa and from Zanzibar by Nobili (1905a) is doubtful. An ongoing revision of the genus Thalamita is being performed by Vassily Spiridonov, which will hopefully resolve the taxonomic and distribution problems of these two species.

References

Apel, M. & Spiridonov, V. (1998) Taxonomic and zoogeography of the Portunid crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Portunidae) of the Persian Gulf and adjacent waters. Fauna of Arabia, 17, 159 - 331.

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 Unpublished doctoral thesis, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat, Frankfurt a. M., 268 pp.

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. (1905 a) Decapodes nouveaux des cotes d'Arabie et du Golfe Persique (Diagnoses preliminaires). Bulletin du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 11, 158 - 164.

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.

Stephenson, W. (1976) Notes on Indo-West-Pacific Portunids (Decapoda, Portunidae) in the Smithsonian Institution. Crustaceana, 31 (1), 11 - 26.

Titgen, R. H. (1982) The systematics and ecology of the Decapods of Dubai, and their zoogeographic relationships to the Persian Gulf and the Western Indian Ocean. Unpublished doctoral thesis, Texas A & M University, 292 pp.