Thalamita prymna (Herbst, 1803)

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 : 42

Thalamita prymna (Herbst, 1803)

Persian Gulf. UAE ( Titgen 1982; Apel & Spiridonov 1998; Apel 2001), Iran (present study).

Iran. Hormozgan Province: Qeshm I. (Zeytun Park Beach, Plage-Simin, Suza, Namakdan).

General distribution. Indo-West Pacific: South Africa, East Africa, Madagascar, Mauritius, Red Sea, Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, Pakistan, India, Andaman Is., Nicobar Is., Mergui Archipelago, Malaysia, Thailand, Japan, Philippines, Singapore, Indonesia, Lord Howe I., Australia (Western Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland), Samoa, Fiji, French Polynesia.

Habitat. Rocky/cobble intertidal to 5 m.

Remarks. Apel & Spiridonov (1998) stated that the record of this species by Titgen (1982) from Dubai ( UAE) is most probably based on a misidentification of the closely related species T. rubridens Apel & Spiridonov, 1998 . They mentioned that T. rubridens is a more common species in the south-western Persian Gulf, whereas T. prymna occurs very rarely in the Persian Gulf. In contrast, during the present study, T. prymna was found being a more common species along the Iranian coast compared to its congener T. rubridens which was collected only at one station.