Menaethius monocerus (Latreille, 1825)

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 : 35

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3374.1.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5255660
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scientific name	Menaethius monocerus (Latreille, 1825)
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Persian Gulf. Kuwait ( Jones 1986a), Saudi Arabia ( Basson et al. 1977; Apel 2001), UAE ( Evans et al. 1973; Cooper 1997), Iran ( Stephensen 1946; present study)

Iran. Hormozgan Province: Qeshm I. (Dustku), Bostano (Parsian).

General distribution. Indo-West Pacific: South Africa, East Africa, Seychelles, Red Sea, southern Oman (Dhofar), Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, Pakistan, Maldives, India, Lakshadweep, Nicobar, Andaman Sea, Malaysia, China, Japan, Indonesia, Cocos-Keeling I., Elizabeth & Middleton Reefs, Australia (Western Australia, Queensland), Fiji, Tahiti, French Polynesia, Hawaiian Is.

Habitat. Rocky/cobble intertidal and oyster bank, 0–33 m.

References

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 Unpublished doctoral thesis, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat, Frankfurt a. M., 268 pp.

Basson, P. W., Burchard, J. E., Hardy, J. T. & Price, A. R. G. (1977) Biotopes of the Western Arabian Gulf: Marine life and environments of Saudi Arabia. ARAMCO, Dept. of Loss Prevention and environmental affairs, Dhahran: 289 pp.

Cooper, R. T. (1997) Mangal-associated Brachyura (Ocypodidae, Grapsidae, Portunidae, Majidae, Xanthidae and Leucosiidae) from the north-eastern coastal Islands of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Crustaceana, 70 (2), 155 - 179.

Evans, G., Murray, J. W., Biggs, H. E. J., Bate, R. & Bush P. R. (1973) The oceanography, ecology, sedimentology and geomorphology of parts of the Trucial Coast Barrier Island Complex, Persian Gulf. In: Purser, B. H. (ed.): The Persian Gulf. - Holocene carbonate sedimentation and diagenesis in a shallow epicontinental sea. Springer Verlag, Berlin, 233 - 277.

Jones, D. A. (1986 a) A field guide to the sea shores of Kuwait and the Persian Gulf. University of Kuwait Blandford Press, Poole, Kuwait, 192 pp.

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