Elasmopus pectenicrus (Spence Bate, 1862 )

Al-Kandari, Manal, Polikarpov, Igor, Nithyanandan, Manickam, Al-Yamani, Faiza & Grintsov, Vladimir, 2023, An annotated checklist of the Amphipoda (Crustacea) of Kuwait, north-western Arabian Gulf, Zootaxa 5351 (1), pp. 1-36 : 18

49. Elasmopus pectenicrus (Spence Bate, 1862) **

Syn.: Elasmopus serrula Walker, 1904 ; Maera pectenicrus Spence Bate, 1862

Regional records: Iraq: Salman 1998; Kuwait: Jones 1986; Saudi Arabia: Manokaran et al. 2021.

Habitat: Intertidal and subtidal zones; sand, mud, rocks, pebble, and shells.

** Taxonomic note: Myers & Momtazi (2015) questioned the records of E. pectenicrus from Iraq ( Salman 1998) and Kuwait ( Jones 1986) but considered these findings too poorly described to be allocated to later described and morphologically similar Elasmopus alkhiranensis . We include here this species with caution as requiring the further morphological revision.