Hiplyra sagitta Galil, 2009

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 : 31

Hiplyra sagitta Galil, 2009

Persian Gulf. Kuwait ( Galil 2009; Naderloo & Apel 2012), Iran ( Galil 2009; Naderloo & Apel 2012).

Iran. Bushehr Province: Bushehr, Kharg I .

General distribution. Indian Ocean: Persian Gulf, Pakistan, India, Andaman Sea.

Habitat. Sandy shallow subtidal, 7.5– 22 m.

Remarks. Hiplyra sagitta was recently described from the Persian Gulf by Galil (2009). Holotype and paratypes described by Galil (2009) are from Danish Expedition material collected in 1937 from Bushehr published by Stephensen (1946) under the name of Philyra variegata . Apel (2001) had re-examined material of Philyra variegata of Stephensen (1946) from Jask and mentioned that there are two new species within the material. Philyra n. sp. 1 of Apel (2001) has been later described by Galil (2009) as Hiplyra sagitta . The second new species distinguished by Apel (2001) within the P. variegata has been assigned to H. elegans (Gravier, 1920) by Naderloo & Apel (2012). For detailed taxonomic remarks on H. sagitta see Galil (2009) and Naderloo & Apel (2012).