Elamena sindensis Alcock, 1900

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 : 33

Elamena sindensis Alcock, 1900

Persian Gulf. Kuwait ( Chopra & Das 1930), Saudi Arabia ( Basson et al. 1977; Apel 2001), Iran ( Stephensen 1946; present study).

Iran. Hormozgan Province: Qeshm I. (two stations along the south coast) . Bushehr Province: Khalij-Nayband (Haleh).

General distribution. Northwestern Indian Ocean: Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, Pakistan, India ( Bombay), Sri Lanka.

Habitat. Rocky/cobble intertidal, found attached to algae or sea weeds.

Remarks. Elamena sindensis is the only species of the family Hymenosomatidae occurring along the intertidal region of the Persian Gulf. Chopra & Das (1930) described another species of the family, Neorhynchoplax kempi ( Chopra & Das, 1930) , from Shat al-Arab freshwater marshes in Iraq, about 70 miles off the sea.