Palaemon serrifer (Stimpson, 1860)

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 : 16

Palaemon serrifer (Stimpson, 1860)

Persian Gulf. First Persian Gulf record.

Iran. Hormozgan Province: Qeshm I. (Kaveh Jetty, Dargahan), Mahtabi, 15 km. E of Bandar-Lengeh.

General distribution. Indo-West Pacific: South Africa, Persian Gulf, India, Mergui Archipelago, Burma, Thailand, Vietnam, China, Korea, Japan, Australia (Western Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland).

Habitat. Sandy-muddy intertidal.

Remarks. The identity of the specimens has been checked by Sammy De Grave (pers. comm.). Sheibani (2008) recorded Palaemon pacificus (Stimpson, 1860) from the Persian Gulf, which is most probably a misidentification of P. serrifer .