An updated checklist of marine gastropods of the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman

Abstract

Here we review and evaluate the marine gastropods of the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman based on published accounts. A total of 850 species belonging to 129 families have records in the Persian Gulf (585) and Gulf of Oman (648), of which 383 species occurred in both regions. We updated the taxonomy and deleted records with dubious identifications. The resultant checklist documents the currently known diversity of marine gastropods from the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman and provides a foundation for future studies of the biodiversity of these areas.

New records of nudibranchs and a cephalaspid from Kuwait, northwestern Arabian Gulf (Mollusca, Heterobranchia)

“…The heterobranch fauna of APG are rather poorly documented with sporadic reports from Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Iran (Glayzer et al 1984;Jones 1986;Gosliner and Behrens 2004;Al-Yamani et al 2012;Nithyanandan 2012;Yonow 2012;Gosliner et al 2015;Rezai et al 2016;Al-Kandari et al 2020;Amini-Yekta and Dekker 2021). In Kuwaiti waters to date, 35 species of heterobranchs were recorded belonging to eighteen families and two orders (Al-Yamani et al 2012;Nithyanandan 2012).…”