Menippe rumphii (Fabricius, 1798)

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 : 30

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scientific name	Menippe rumphii (Fabricius, 1798)
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Persian Gulf. First Persian Gulf record.

Iran. Hormozgan Province: Qeshm I. (Zeytun Park Beach).

General distribution. Indian Ocean: East Africa, Madagascar, Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, Socotra, Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, Pakistan, India ( Bombay), Laccadive, South India, Sri Lanka, Mergui Archipelago, Nicobar Is., Andaman Sea, Thailand, Indonesia.

Habitat. Rocky/cobble intertidal.

Remarks. Apel (2001) did not list the species among the known brachyuran crabs of the Persian Gulf. Alcock’s (1898) record was based on the “ Investigator ” sampling, which is thought being outside of the Persian Gulf. Since other records of M. rumphii from the Gulf ( Stephensen 1946; Guinot 1967; Titgen 1982) are based on Alcock’s (1898) record, they are not reliable. However, the present record confirms the occurrence of the species in the Persian Gulf. Furthermore, a single male was collected from Djod Village of Baluchestan, which is the first record for the Gulf of Oman.

References

Alcock, A. (1898) Material for a carcinological Fauna of India. No. 3: The Brachyura Cyclometopa. Part I. The family Xanthidae. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 67 (2), 67 - 233.

Apel, M. (2001) Taxonomie und Zoogeographie der Brachyura, Paguridea und Porcellanidae (Crustacea: Decapoda) des Persisch-Arabischen Golfes. Unpublished doctoral thesis, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat, Frankfurt a. M., 268 pp.

Guinot, D. (1967) La faune carcinologique (Crustacea, Brachyura) de l'Ocean Indien occidental et de la Mer Rouge. Catalogue remarques biogeographiques et bibliographie. Memoires de l'Institut fondamental d'Afrique noire, 77, 235 - 352.

Stephensen, K. (1946) The Brachyura of the Iranian Gulf. Danish Scientific Investigations in Iran, Part IV. E. Munksgaard, Copenhagen, 57 - 237.

Titgen, R. H. (1982) The systematics and ecology of the Decapods of Dubai, and their zoogeographic relationships to the Persian Gulf and the Western Indian Ocean. Unpublished doctoral thesis, Texas A & M University, 292 pp.