Diogenes alias McLaughlin & Holthuis, 2001

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

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3374.1.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5255607
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/E177585F-C61F-1B2A-FF3C-FFB1FE47FDCB
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Diogenes alias McLaughlin & Holthuis, 2001
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Persian Gulf. Kuwait ( Apel 2001), UAE ( Titgen 1982), Iran (Moradmand 2007).

Iran. Hormozgan Province: Between Bandar Abbas-Qeshm I .

General distribution. Indo-west Pacific: Persian Gulf, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Andaman Sea, Thailand, South China Sea, Indonesia.

Habitat. Muddy-sand shallow subtidal.

Remarks. Titgen (1982) recorded this species as Diogenes diogenes (Linnaeus, 1758) from the UAE. McLaughlin & Holthuis (2001) discussed the identity of the species, and proposed a replacement name, namely Diogenes alias . They have elaborately described D. alias and synonymized all previous records of Diogenes diogenes with this species.