Diogenes dubius (Herbst, 1804)

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 : 26-27

Diogenes dubius (Herbst, 1804)

Persian Gulf. Iran ( Apel 2001)

Iran. Bushehr Province: Bushehr .

General distribution. Indo-West Pacific: East Africa, Madagascar, Persian Gulf, Pakistan, India, Indo- Malayan Archipelago, Malaysia, Indonesia.

Habitat. Rocky/cobble intertidal.

Remarks. Apel (2001) has recorded this species from the northern part of the Persian Gulf in Bushehr by examination of the Danish Expedition collection. He reluctantly mentioned that the Motoh’s (1975) record of the species D. custos from Kuwait could be contributed to D. dubius , as the former was not known from the Persian Gulf ( Apel 2001). Later, Moradmand (2007) recorded D. custos from the Iranian coast of the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. Thus, the only record of D. dubius remains that of Apel (2001).