Menaethiops nodulosa (Nobili, 1905)

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 : 34

Menaethiops nodulosa (Nobili, 1905)

Persian Gulf. Saudi Arabia ( Basson et al. 1977), UAE ( Nobili 1905a, 1906a), Iran ( Stephensen 1946; present study).

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

General distribution. Northwestern Indian Ocean: Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, Somalia, southern Oman (Dhofar), Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, Pakistan.

Habitat. Rocky /cobble intertidal. Stephensen (1946) recorded this species from the Persian Gulf to 3-6 m in oyster bank .

Remarks. Nobili (1905a) described this species from the Persian Gulf on the coast of the UAE. Apel (2001) recorded this species from the Gulf of Oman for the first time. The genus Menaethiops Alcock, 1895 , currently contains 15 species ( Ng et al. 2008), but a sound taxonomic study is needed, since more new species wait to be discovered within that genus.