Short Communication:A subtidal porcellanid crab, Petrolisthes militaris (Heller, 1862) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura), from the Persian Gulf, Iran

Short Communication:A subtidal porcellanid crab, Petrolisthes militaris (Heller, 1862) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura), from the Persian Gulf, Iran

a subtidal porcellanid crab, petrolisthes militaris (heller, 1862) (crustacea: decapoda: anomura), from the persian gulf, iran

the family porcellanidae is a group of crab-shaped anomurans and there are a series of studies on this group in the persian gulf. the first report of porcellanid crabs from the persian gulf was by heller (1861); who referred incidentally to two species of this group in a discussion of crustacea of the red sea.

A new species of porcelain crab, Petrolisthes tuerkayi n. sp. (Crustacea: Anomura: Porcellanidae), from the Persian Gulf.

A new species of porcellanid crab, Petrolisthes tuerkayi n. sp., is described from the Persian Gulf. The new species is closely related to P. rufescens Heller, 1861, but is easily distinguishable by having three or four large spines distally on the posterior margin of the carpus of chelipeds, whereas the posterior margin of the cheliped merus in P. rufescens is unarmed.

Larval development of the land hermit crab Coenobita violascens Heller, 1862 (Decapoda, Anomura, Coenobitidae) described from laboratory-reared materia.

The zoeal and the megalopal stages of the land hermit crab Coenobita violascens Heller, 1862 are described and illustrated from laboratory-reared material, and compared with larvae of nine other described coenobitid species. The larvae developed through four planktonic zoeal stages to the megalopal stage. Coenobita violascens had characteristics of zoeal pleomeres and megalopal antennules typic...

A new species of the hermit crab genus Diogenes (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Diogenidae) from southern India.

A new species of the hermit crab genus Diogenes Dana, 1851 (Diogenidae), D. canaliculatus, is described and illustrated on the basis of material from off the Kerala State, southern India. It is referred to the D. edwardsii (De Haan, 1849) species group, and compared with D. bicristimanus Alcock, 1905, D. fasciatus Rahayu & Forest, 1995, D. laevicarpus Rahayu, 1996 and D. moosai Rahayu & Forest,...

littoral hermit crabs (crustacea: decapoda: anomura) of larak island, persian gulf, iran

the hermit crab fauna of the larak island was investigated, which revealed seven species representing five genera and two families. the family diogenidae represents six species namely areopaguristes perspicax (nobili, 1906), clibanarius signatus heller, 1861, dardanus lagopodes (forskål, 1775), d. tinctor (forskål, 1775), d. avarus heller, 1865, d. tirmiziae siddiqui & mclaughlin, 2003, while t...