Albunea steinitzi Holthuis, 1958

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 : 23

Albunea steinitzi Holthuis, 1958

Persian Gulf. First Persian Gulf record.

Iran. Hormozgan Province: Qeshm I. (Shib-Deraz).

General distribution. Indian Ocean: East Africa ( Tanzania), Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, Socotra, Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, Pakistan.

Habitat. Sandy beach.

Remarks. Albunea steinitzi is the only species of the family Albuneidae occurring in the Northwestern Indian Ocean ( Boyko 2002). A detailed account of the species was provided by Boyko (2002). This is the first record of the species from the Persian Gulf. During the present study some specimens were also collected in sandy/rocky shore of Djod Village in Baluchestan along the Iranian coast of the Gulf of Oman.