Philocheras parvirostris (Kemp, 1916)

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 : 15

Philocheras parvirostris (Kemp, 1916)

Persian Gulf. First Persian Gulf record.

Iran. Hormozgan Province: Qeshm I. (Dustku).

General distribution. Indo-West Pacific: Persian Gulf, Gulf of Manaar, Singapore.

Habitat. Rocky/cobble intertidal.

Remarks. This is the first record of the species from the western Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf. This is the third crangonid known from the Persian Gulf, two having been recorded by De Grave & Ashelby (2011). A single female is in agreement with the original description and illustration of Kemp (1916a: text-fig. 6, pl. 3, fig. 6). The only account on the living colour was given by Kemp (1916a: 374): “pale, mottled and spotted with dark umber, tending to maroon at the sides and on the appendages and forming distinct blotches on pleura of the first, fourth and sixth abdominal somites”.