Actumnus tesselatus Alcock, 1898

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 : 36

Actumnus tesselatus Alcock, 1898

Persian Gulf. UAE ( Nobili, 1906a), Iran ( Stephensen 1946). Alcock (1989) described this species from the Persian Gulf, without giving an exact locality.

Iran. Hormozgan Province: Kish I.

General distribution. Endemic: Persian Gulf.

Habitat. Stephensen (1946) recorded the present species from a sandy beach of Kish I., while Nobili’s (1906a) material came from Arzanah I. ( UAE) from an oyster bank at 20- 30 m.

Remarks. The genus Actumnus is represented by six species in the Persian Gulf ( Apel 2001; Naderloo & Ng 2011), of which A. tesselatus is the only one which has been recorded from the intertidal zone. Stephensen (1946) erroneously mentioned St. 54 of Qais I. (Kish I.) as locality for a single specimen of the species, whereas stations 41-42 of the Danish Expedition were in Kish I., and Station 54 was in Qeshm I. A new representative of the genus has recently been discovered from the Iranian waters of the Persian Gulf, namely Actumnus simplex Rathbun, 1911 , which was redescribed by Naderloo & Ng (2011).