Pilumnus incanus (Forskål, 1775)

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 : 38

Pilumnus incanus (Forskål, 1775)

Persian Gulf. First Persian Gulf record.

Iran. Hormozgan Province: Moghdan (Parsian).

General distribution. Northwestern Indian Ocean: Red Sea, Persian Gulf.

Habitat. Rocky/cobble.

Remarks. A single male collected in the present study is generally identical with descriptions provided by Nobili (1906b) for Pilumnus forskalii H. Milne Edwards, 1834 , and Klunzinger (1913) for Pilumnus incanus (Forskål, 1775) . Ng et al. (2008) discussed on the synonymies of the two names, and they have regarded P. incanus (Forskål, 1775) , as senior subjective synonym of P. forskalii H. Milne Edwards, 1834 . This species has been briefly described and inadequately figured, therefore it must be redescribed again.