Calcinus latens (Randell, 1840)

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 : 24

Calcinus latens (Randell, 1840)

Persian Gulf. Iran (Naderloo et al. 2012).

Iran. Hormozgan Province: Qeshm I. (Zeytun Park Beach).

General distribution. Indo-West Pacific: East Africa, Mauritius, Rodrigues, Seychelles, Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, Socotra, southern Oman (Dhofar), Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, Pakistan, Chagos Archipelago, Maldives, Andaman Sea, Thailand, Taiwan, Japan, Indonesia, Christmas I., Cocos-Keeling Is., Lord Howe I., Norfolk I., Australia (Western Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland, NSW), French Polynesia, Tuamotu, Hawaiian Is.

Habitat. Rocky/cobble intertidal.

Remarks. Calcinus latens has already been reported from the south-eastern part of the Gulf of Oman by Hogarth (1988, 1989) and Apel (2001). Lewinsohn (1969) erroneously recorded this species from the Persian Gulf with referrence to Nobili (1906a). Nobili’s (1906a) record was in fact from Station XXV, which is located at Al- Mukalla of Yemen in the north-eastern part of the Gulf of Aden. Such a statement has also been made by Apel (2001). Calcinus latens is mostly associated with coral beds in the Indian Ocean and in the current study a single male was found at a rocky intertidal shore partially covered with dead corals.