Areopaguristes perspicax (Nobili, 1906)

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 : 24

Areopaguristes perspicax (Nobili, 1906)

Persian Gulf. Kuwait (Jones 1906a), Saudi Arabia ( Apel 2001), Bahrain ( Nobili 1906a), UAE ( Nobili 1906a; Titgen 1982), Iran (Moradmand 2007; present study).

Iran. Hormozgan Province: Moghdan, Qeshm I. (five stations along south coast) . Bushehr Province: Bushehr (Jofreh).

General distribution. Northwestern Indian Ocean: Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, Somalia, Socotra, southern Oman (Dhofar), Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, Pakistan.

Habitat. Rocky/cobble intertidal.

Remarks. Nobili (1906a) originally described Paguristes Jousseaumei var. perspicax from Bahrain and Arzanah I. (Abu Dhabi) in the eastern Persian Gulf. Rahayu (2005) assigned the species of this group including Paguristes perspicax that are characterized by the possession of 12 pairs of gills to the genus Stratiotes Thomson 1899 , while the members of the genus Paguristes Dana, 1851 , have 13 pairs of gills. Rahayu & McLaughlin (2010) realized that Stratiotes Thomson 1899 was a junior homonym of Stratiotes Putzeys, 1846 , a coleopteran genus. Therefore, they subsequently proposed Areopaguristes Rahayu & McLaughlin, 2010 as a replacement name.