Macromedaeus voeltzkowi (Lenz, 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 : 44

Macromedaeus voeltzkowi (Lenz, 1905)

Persian Gulf. First Persian Gulf record.

Iran. Bushehr Province: Khalij-Nayband (Haleh).

General distribution. Western Indian Ocean: South Africa, East Africa, Red Sea, Somalia, Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman.

Habitat. Rocky/cobble intertidal.

Remarks. We collected the species also from the Iranian coast of the Gulf of Oman in Djod Village together with its congener M. quinquedentatus ( Krauss, 1843) . The latter has been recorded from south Gulf of Oman by Apel (2001), but was not known from the inner Persian Gulf.