Synalpheus coutierei A. H. Banner, 1953

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 : 13

Synalpheus coutierei A. H. Banner, 1953

Persian Gulf. UAE [ Nobili (1906a) as Synalpheus biunguiculatus (Stimpson, 1860) ], Iran (present study), Banner & Banner (1981) recorded this species from an unknown locality.

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

General distribution. Indo-West Pacific: East Africa, Suez Canal, Red Sea, Djibouti, Persian Gulf, southern India, Thailand, Philippines, Australia (Western Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland), and throughout the rest of the West Pacific, but not the Hawaiian Is. and Japan.

Habitat. Rocky/cobble intertidal, associated with sponges. Shallow subtidal to 77 m ( Chace 1988).

Remarks. The name Synalpheus coutierei was proposed by Banner (1953) in replacement of Synalpheus biunguiculatus (Stimpson, 1860) , which had been described based on material from Ambon, Indonesia. The few specimens examined for the present study agree well with published descriptions and illustrations ( Banner 1953: 36; Banner & Banner 1966: 42–45, fig. 20a–i; Banner & Banner 1975: 343–345, fig. 18a–i; Chace 1988: 77).