Periclimenes diversipes Kemp, 1922

Ashrafi, Hossein, Dehghani, Amir, Sari, Alireza & Naderloo, Reza, 2020, An updated checklist of caridean shrimps of the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, Zootaxa 4747 (3), pp. 521-534 : 525

Periclimenes diversipes Kemp, 1922

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Material. 1 female & 1 male ( ZUTC 6851 ), Hormuz Island, Persian Gulf , 27° 2’47.26”N, 56°29’42.29”E, sandy/ rocky with live and dead corals and cobbles, 02.04.2017, coll. H. Ashrafi.

Habitat and habit. Hard corals were somewhere the specimens were found on.

General distribution. Indo-West Pacific.

Remarks. This species was identified with the help of Sammy De Grave, and its color pattern is consistent with that described by Bruce (1989).

Figures

FIGURE 2. Color pattern of A—Cuapetes andamanensis (Kemp, 1922), male (ZUTC 6854), from Khamir, Persian Gulf, photo by R. Abdollahi; B—Coralliocaris viridis (Bruce, 1974), male (ZUTC 6846), from Abu-Musa Island, Persian Gulf, photo by S. Shahbazi; C—Coralliocaris viridis (Bruce, 1974), female (ZUTC 6846), data same as male; D—Palaemon semmelinkii (De Man 1881), male (ZUTC 6855), from Khamir, Persian Gulf, photo by R. Abdollahi; E—Palaemon semmelinkii (De Man 1881), female, from Gwater Bay, Photo by F. Yusefi; F—Periclimenes diversipes Kemp, 122, female (ZUTC 6851), from Hormuz Island, Persian Gulf, Photo by R. Abdollahi.