Clibanarius longitarsus (De Haan, 1849)

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

Clibanarius longitarsus (De Haan, 1849)

Persian Gulf. UAE ( Nobili 1906a; Hornby 1977; Titgen 1982), Iran (Moradmand 2007; Naderloo et al. 2012).

Iran. Bushehr Province: Khalij-Nayband.

General distribution. Indo-West Pacific: South Africa, Madagascar, Tanzania, Somalia, Red Sea, Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, South India, Sri Lanka, Andaman Sea, Thailand, Japan, Philippines, Indonesia, New Guinea, Cocos-Keeling I., Australia (Western Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland).

Remarks. The present record of Clibanarius longitarsus (De Haan, 1849) from the Persian Gulf are not surprising as this species has already been recorded from the Gulf of Oman by Hogarth (1988, 1989) and Apel (2001) from the south coast and by Moradmand & Sari (2007b) from the north coast along the Iranian side. All specimens collected by the latter have occupied shells of a common gastropod in the mangal ecosystem of the area, namely Telescopium telescopium . Clibanarius longitarsus is a common inhabitant of mangroves and muddy shores of the Indian Ocean belonging to a species group of the genus Clibanarius in which the dactylus of the walking legs is normally longer than the propodus. A single female and one juvenile were found in the pneumatophore zone of Avicenia marina in the protected mangroves area of Khalij-Nayband in the northern Persian Gulf (see Moradmand 2007).