Nasima dotilliformis ( Alcock, 1900 )

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 : 49

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scientific name	Nasima dotilliformis ( Alcock, 1900 )
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Persian Gulf. Iraq ( Ng et al. 2009), Kuwait ( Jones & Clayton 1983; Jones 1986a; Snowden & Clayton 1995) Saudi Arabia ( Basson et al. 1977; Apel 1994 a, 1996, 2001), Qatar ( Al-Khayat & Jones 1996, 1999), Iran ( Stephensen 1946; present study).

Iran. Hormozgan Province: Qeshm I. (13 stations around the island), Bandar-Tiab, Bandar-Abbas, Bandar- Pohl, Bandar-Khamir . Bushehr Province: Khalij-Nayband, Bandar-Banak, Delvar, Ramleh, Bandar-Rig, Leylatayn, Bavirat (Bandar-Dayyer), Emamzadeh Shah-Abdollah. Khuzestan Province: Butaheri, Hendijan, Mahshahr (mangroves of Majidieh Fishery Jetty), Bandar-Emam, Arvandroud River about 30 km off the marine coast in Arvandkenar (Yadman Shohaday-Valfajr) .

General distribution. Northwestern Indian Ocean: Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, Pakistan.

Habitat. Muddy intertidal, mangroves.

Remarks. The monotypic genus Nasima was described based on Cleistostoma dotilliforme Alcock, 1900 , from Karachi, Pakistan. This species is very similar to L. kuwaitense , an endemic species of the northwestern Persian Gulf. The validity of Nasima and Leptochryseus was tentatively supported by Ng et al. (2009), with providing detailed morphologic comparisons for these two genera and the closely allied genus Cleistostoma .

References

Al-Khayat, J. A. & Jones, D. A. (1996) Two new genera, Manningis and Leptochryseus (Decapoda: Camptandriinae), and descriptions of the first zoea of six Brachyurans from the Arabian Gulf. Journal of Crustacean Biology, 16 (4), 797 - 813.

Al-Khayat, J. A. & Jones, D. A. (1999) A comparison of the macrofauna of natural and replanted mangroves in Qatar. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 49 (Supplement A), 55 - 63.

Alcock, A. (1900) Material for a carcinological Fauna of India. No. 6: The Brachyura Catometopa, or Grapsoidea. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 69 (2), 279 - 456.

Apel, M. (1994 a) Effects of the 1991 oil spill on the crab fauna (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) of intertidal mudflats in the Western Arabian Gulf. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, 166, 40 - 46.

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.

Jones, D. A. & Clayton, D. (1983) The systematics and ecology of crabs belonging to the genera Cleistostoma and Paracleistostoma on Kuwait mudflats. Crustaceana, 45 (2), 183 - 199.

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.

Ng, P. K. L., Rahayu, D. L. & Naser, M. D. (2009) The Campatndriidae of Iraq, with description of a new genus and notes on Leptochryseus Al-khayat & Jones, 1996 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura). Zootaxa, 2312, 1 - 26.

Snowden, R. J. & Clayton, D. A. (1995) Aspects of the life history and seasonal ecology of Nasima dotilliformis (Alcock) (Brachyura: Ocypodidae) on a Kuwait mudflat. Journal of the University of Kuwait (Science), 22 (1), 84 - 94.

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