Axiidea, de Saint Laurent, 1979

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 : 6

Infraorders Axiidea and Gebiidea

Thalassinidean shrimps (infraorders Axiidea and Gebiidea ) are the least common in terms of species number when compared to other intertidal groups of Persian Gulf decapods. There is now a relatively good knowledge of the Thalassinidea , but still there is no comprehensive checklist on the species and their distribution in the area. Nobili (1906a) recorded two species, Upogebia hexaceras (Ortmann, 1894) , and U. hirtifrons (White, 1847) [the latter renamed U. balssi De Man, 1927 ] from the southeast coast of UAE. Sakai (1982) re-examined Nobili’s (1906a) records and identified both as U. darwini (Miers, 1884) . Sakai (1984) added U. savignyi (Strahl, 1862) to the list of known Gulf thalassinideans. Sakai & Türkay (1995) examined the material collected by R. V. Akademik during 30 30 Nov.–Dec. 20, 1991” must be changed to “ 30 Nov.–20 Dec.1991 and described a new species, Upogebia nobilii Sakai & Türkay, 1995 [= Austinogebia spinifrons (Haswell, 1881) , see Dworschak (2009)] and identified U. plantae Sakai, 1982 , as new record. Both species were collected at a depth of 39–50 m off Iran in the northern Gulf. Sakai (2002, 2005, 2006) described three new species: Michaelcallianassa indica Sakai, 2002 , Callianassa persica Sakai, 2005 , and Arabigebicula rhynchos Sakai, 2006 , from the northern Gulf off Iran. Dworschak (2009) examined material collected from two oilfields off Qatar in 1995, 1998 and 2003, and identified three species, Austinogebia spinifrons (Haswell, 1882) , Gourretia coolibah Poore & Griffin, 1979 , Neogebicula wistari Nguyen, 1995 , of which the two latter were new to the Gulf. Sepahvand & Sari (2010) recorded seven species of Thalassinidea from the Qeshm I. intertidal in Iran, including U. carinicauda (Stimpson, 1860) , G. coolibah , M. indica , Neochallichirus indicus [= Neocallichirus jousseaumei Nobili, 1904 , see Dworschak (2011)], Podochalichirus masoomi (Tirmizi, 1970) , Callianassa bouvieri Nobili, 1904 [according to Sakai (2011), now known as Gilvossius bouvieri (Nobili, 1904) ], and Callianidea typa H. Milne Edwards, 1837 . Seven species were collected from the Iranian coast during this study, of which Upogebia pseodochelata Tattersall, 1921 , is a new record. A total of 15 species of thalassinidean shrimps are now known from the Gulf, which belong to four families, Callianassidae (3 species), Callianideidae (1 spieces), Gourretiidae (1 species) and Upogebiidae (10 species). Ten species are recorded here from the intertidal zone of the Iranian coast.