Ebalia abdominalis Nobili, 1906

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

Ebalia abdominalis Nobili, 1906

Persian Gulf. UAE ( Apel 2001), Iran (present study).

Iran. Hormozgan Province: Qeshm I. (Suza) . Bushehr Province: Bandar Dayyer.

General distribution. Northwestern Indian Ocean: Somalia, Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, Persian Gulf.

Habitat. Sandy intertidal, shallow subtidal.

Remarks. Persian Gulf specimens are fully agreeing with the description and single photo provided by Nobili (1906b: 155–157, pl. 9, fig. 2). The general characteristics of this species look to be very similar to the genus Philyra Leach, 1817 , rather than the genus Ebalia Leach 1817 . An overall revision of the latter genus needs to be done using modern taxonomic characters.