International Journal of Marine Science, 2017, Vol.7, No.36, 361-365
365
decaying wood, or under old boats at the intertidal zone.
Authors’ contributions
Both authors have contributed equally toward the publication of this paper.
Acknowledgments
We would like to thank the Marine Biology Department, Marine Science Center, Basrah University, Iraq for giving us the opportunity
to examine and study the crabs specimens. Our thanks are also due to Dr. Talib A. Khalaf chef of Marine Biology Department, for
reading the manuscript and for their valuable advice and suggestions.
References
Apel M., 2001, Taxonomic and zoogeography of Brachyuran, Paguridae and Porcellanidae (Crustacea: Decapoda) of Persian Gulf, Master thesis, Frankfurt
University, Germany
Barnard,1950, Additions to the fauna-list of south African Crustacea and Pycnogonida, Ann S Afr Mus, 43: 1- 107
Basson P.W., Burchard J.E., Hardy J.T., and Price A.R.G., 1977, Biotopes of the Western Arabian Gulf: Marine life and environments of Saudi Arabia, Dhahran:
ARAMCO, Dept. of Loss Prevention and environmental affairs, pp.289
Chopra B., 1935, Further notes on Crustacea Decapoda in the Indian Museum, VIII. On the decapod Crustacea collected by the Bengal Pilot Service off the
mouth of the river Hooghly. Brachygnatha (Oxyrhyncha and Brachyrhyncha), Rec Indian Mus, 37: 463-514
Cooper T.R., 1997, Mangal - Associated Brachyura, Ocypodidae, Grapsidae, Portunidae, Majidae, Xanthidae and Leucosidae from the north eastern costal
Islands of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Crstaceana, 70: C', Kaninklijke Brill, Leiden
Davie P.J.F., 1989, A re-appraisal of Heteropanope Stimpson, and Pilumnopeus A. MilneEdwards (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pilumnidae) with descriptions of new
species and new genus, Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 27: 129-156
Ghani N., and Davie P.J.F., 2000, New record of a xanthid,
Pilumnopeus convexus
(Maccagno 1936) with a note on its ecology, Pak J Mar Bio, 6(2): 121-124
Ghory F., Ng P.K.L., and Kazmi Q.B., 2013, On the identities of
Pilumnopeus convexus
Maccagno, 1936, and
P. salomonensis
Ward, 1942, from the Indian
Ocean, with a note on P. riui Takeda, 2001 (Decapoda, Brachyura, Pilumnidae), Crustaceana, 86(3): 301-312
Hornby R., 1997, A survey of the habitats, invertebrate fauna and environmental sensitivity of the mainland coast of the UAE, with information on status and
distribution of Crustaceans, TRIBULUS., Bull Emirates Nat Hist Group, 7: 11-17
Hussain N.A., and Ahmed S.M., 1999, Influenced of hydrographic conditions on the interaction between ichthyoplankton and macrozooplankton at Khor
Al-Zubair lagoon, Iraq, Arabian Gul, Qatar University Sci. J., 18: 247-259
Jones D.A., 1986, A field guide to the sea shores of Kuwait and the Persian Gulf., University of Kuwait Blandford Press, Kuwait: Poole, pp.192
Maccagno T., 1936, Crostacei de Assab: Decapodi, StomJ.topodi, Anfipodi, Spedizione de Barone Raimondo Franchctti in Dancalia (1928-29), Ann Mus stor
Nat Genova, 59: 171-186
Maccagno T., 1936, Spedizione del Barone Raimondo Franchetti in Doncalia (1928-29), Crosta-cei di Assab. Decapodi, Stomatopodi, Anfipodi. Annali del
Museo civico di Storia naturaledi Genova, 59: 171-186
Milne-Edwards A., 1867, Descriptions de quelques especes nouvelles de Crustaces Brachyures, Ann Soc Ent Fr Ser, 4(7): 263-288
Naderloo R., and Türkay M.., 2012, Decapod crustaceans of littoral and shallow sublittoral habitats along the eastern (Iranian) coast of the Persian Gulf:
faunistics, biodiversity and zoogeography, Zootaxa, 3374: 1-67
Ng P.K.L., Guinot D., and Davie P.J.F., 2008,
Systema brachyurorum
: partI.An annotated checklist of extant brachyuran crabs of the world, National university
of Singapore, The raffles of zoology, 17: 1-286
Stephensen K., 1946, The Brachyura of the Iranian Gulf, Danish Scientific Investigations in Iran, Part IV. E. Munksgaard, Copenhagen, 57–237
Titgen R.H., 1982, The Systematics and ecology of the Decapods of Dubai, and their zoogeographic relationships to the Persian Gulf and the western Indian
Ocean, Dissertation, Texas A& M University, USA
