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

Nasima dotilliformis ( Alcock, 1900)

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 .