Confirming of the occurrence of three intertidal xanthid crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Xanthidae) in the Gulf of Oman

Abstract

Three brachyuran species of the family Xanthidae, Atergatis ocyroe, Macromedaeus voeltzkowi and Macromedaeus quinquedentatus are recorded from the Iranian coast of the Gulf of Oman. These specimens were collected in 2009 and 2010 from the Iranian waters of the Gulf of Oman. Among these species, A. ocyroe is a new record for the Gulf of Oman and M. quinquedentatus is a new record for the Iranian coast. This is the second record of M. voeltzkowi from the Iranian coast, whereas there is still no record from the Arabian coast of the Gulf of Oman. The diagnostic characteristics of the species and some taxonomic remarks are reported upon in this paper.

Five crabs of the families Xanthidae and Pilumnidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) from Abu-Musa Island, Iran; new records for the Persian Gulf

“…REMARKS: Macromedaeus is represented by three species from the region namely M. crassimanus, M. quinquedentatus (Krauss, 1843), and M. voeltzkowi (Lenz, 1905). The two latter species have been recorded from the Gulf of Oman by Ghotbeddin & Naderloo (2014), but this is the first record of M. crassimanus for the region.…”

A review of the common crab genus Macromedaeus Ward, 1942 (Brachyura, Xanthidae) from China Seas with description of a new species using integrative taxonomy methods

“…104, pl. XXV D-E; Galil & Vannini, 1990 : 40; Apel, 2001 : 87; Mendoza, Lasley Jr & Ng, 2014 : 284; Ghotbeddin & Naderloo, 2014 : 3, fig. 2b; Naderloo, 2017 : 258, figs.…”