Coralliocaris viridis Bruce, 1974

Ashrafi, Hossein, Dehghani, Amir, Sari, Alireza & Naderloo, Reza, 2020, An updated checklist of caridean shrimps of the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, Zootaxa 4747 (3), pp. 521-534 : 524

Coralliocaris viridis Bruce, 1974

( Fig. 2B, C )

Material. 9 females & 3 male ( ZUTC 6846 ), Qadir Park , Abu-Musa Island, Persian Gulf, 25°89’58”N, 55°04’23”E, sandy/rocky with corals, 04.05.2016, coll. R. Naderloo.

Habitat and habit. The members of this species are living on live corals, Acropora sp.

General distribution. Indo-West Pacific.

Remarks. Bruce (1974) noted that the whole body of this species covered with scattered black and yellowish white dots while the Persian Gulf’s material represent green and white dots.

Figures

FIGURE 2. Color pattern of A—Cuapetes andamanensis (Kemp, 1922), male (ZUTC 6854), from Khamir, Persian Gulf, photo by R. Abdollahi; B—Coralliocaris viridis (Bruce, 1974), male (ZUTC 6846), from Abu-Musa Island, Persian Gulf, photo by S. Shahbazi; C—Coralliocaris viridis (Bruce, 1974), female (ZUTC 6846), data same as male; D—Palaemon semmelinkii (De Man 1881), male (ZUTC 6855), from Khamir, Persian Gulf, photo by R. Abdollahi; E—Palaemon semmelinkii (De Man 1881), female, from Gwater Bay, Photo by F. Yusefi; F—Periclimenes diversipes Kemp, 122, female (ZUTC 6851), from Hormuz Island, Persian Gulf, Photo by R. Abdollahi.