Latreutes anoplonyx Kemp, 1914

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 : 14

Latreutes anoplonyx Kemp, 1914

Persian Gulf. Kuwait ( Motoh 1975; Grabe & Lees 1995), Iran (present study).

Iran. Hormozgan Province: Qeshm I. (Basaeedu, large number of specimens collected from jellyfishes trapped in the nets of a fishing boat).

General distribution. Indo-West Pacific: East Africa ( Mozambique, Zanzibar, Tanzania, Kenya), Madagascar, Comoro Is., Seychelles, Red Sea, Djibouti, Yemen, Persian Gulf, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Burma, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, China, Japan, Papua New Guinea, Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland), Caroline Is., Marshall Islands, Fiji, Tuvalu and Tuamotus.

Habitat. Symbiotic with medusae.

Remarks. The present specimens generally agree with the description and illustrations provided for the original material (a single ovigerous female from Bombay) deposited in the Bombay Natural History Museum ( Kemp 1914: 104–105, pl. 5, figs. 3–5).