Macrophthalmus (Macrophthalmus) sulcatus H. Milne Edwards, 1852

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 : 52

Macrophthalmus (Macrophthalmus) sulcatus H. Milne Edwards, 1852

Persian Gulf. Kuwait [ Clayton (1986) and Jones (1986a) as Macrophthalmus grandidieri ], Saudi Arabia [ Basson et al. (1977) as Macrophthalmus grandidieri ; Apel & Türkay (1999); Apel (2001); Naderloo et al. (2011)], UAE [ Al-Ghais & Cooper (1996) as Macrophthalmus dilatatus sulcatus ; Apel & Türkay (1999); Apel (2001); Naderloo et al. (2011)], Bahrain [ Vousden (1987) as Macrophthalmus grandidieri ], Iran ( Pretzmann, 1971; Naderloo et al. 2011; present study).

Iran. Hormozgan Province: Qeshm I. (Kuweii, desalination center), Bandar-Abbas . Bushehr Province: Bushehr (Jofreh), Bandar-Rig, Laylatayn, Bavirat.

General distribution. Northern Indian Ocean: Mauritius (?), Persian Gulf, Pakistan, west coast of India, western Malaysia.

Habitat. Muddy-sand intertidal.

Remarks. Apel & Türkay (1999) mentioned material identified as M. grandidieri recorded from the Persian Gulf ( Basson et al. 1977; Clayton 1986; Jones 1986a; Vousden 1987) that convincingly can be assigned to M. sulcatus . Naderloo et al. (2011) redescribed this species and provided detailed morphological and taxonomic remarks of the species and compared it with M. grandidieri .