Alpheus edwardsii Audouin, 1827

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 : 9-10

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3374.1.1
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scientific name	Alpheus edwardsii Audouin, 1827
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Alpheus edwardsii Audouin, 1827 View in CoL

Persian Gulf. UAE [ Nobili (1906a) as Alpheus audouini Coutière, 1905 ], Iran (present study). Iran. Hormozgan Province: Qeshm I. (three stations along the south coast).

General distribution. Indo-West Pacific: South Africa, East Africa, Red Sea, Persian Gulf, Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia, Australia (Great Barrier Reef), Coral Sea, Caroline Is., Fiji, Samoa. This species entered the Mediterranean as an Erythrean alien through the Suez Canal (d’Udekem d’Acoz 1999; Galil 2011).

Habitat. Rocky/cobble intertidal. Chace (1988) recorded the species to 25 m.

Remarks. Alpheus edwardsii is sympatric with A. edamensis and A. lobidens on the Iranian coast.