Hippolyte ventricosa H. Milne Edwards, 1837

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

Hippolyte ventricosa H. Milne Edwards, 1837

Persian Gulf. Kuwait ( Jones, 1986a), Iran (present study).

Iran. Hormozgan Province: East of Bandar-Abbas . Bushehr Province: Bushehr (Jofreh).

General distribution. Indo-West Pacific: South Africa, Mozambique, Suez Canal, Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, Persian Gulf, Pakistan, South India, Andaman Is., French Polynesia.

Habitat. Muddy-sand intertidal with shell fragments.

Remarks. Tirmizi & Kazmi (1984) recorded this species from the northern Arabian Sea in Pakistan. Specimens of H. ventricosa show variations on the number of teeth on the upper and lower margins of the rostrum, which was partly discussed by Tirmizi & Ghani (1984). The five specimens collected have a rostral spination formula of 1–2/1–3. Other general characteristics of the material are identical with those of previously described specimens (e.g. Kemp 1914, Holthuis 1947; Tirmizi & Kazmi 1984).