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3.2.4 Habitat
Shallow subtidal mainly in sandy substrates from depths of 5 to 15 m. Taken mainly as a by catch of trawlers.
3.3 Distribution
Arabian Gulf: Iran (Stephensen, 1945; Naderloo and Türkay, 2012), Kuwait [(Jones, 1986) as Matuta lunaris]
Saudi Arabia (Basson et al., 1977; Apel, 2001), UAE (Titgen, 1982).
World distributions: Pakistan, Oman, India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, China, Japan, Australia
and New Caledonia.
Authors’ contributions
All authors in this paper have contributed equally toward the publication of this paper.
Acknowledgements
We would like to thank Dr. Salman Dawood Salman, Dr. Talib A. Khalaf and Dr.Tariq H. Al-Maliky, Marine biology department,
Marine Sciences Center, Basrah University, for me help in reading the manuscript and for their valuable advice and suggestions.
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