Biodiversity of intertidal and shallow subtidal habitats in Abu Musa Island, Persian Gulf, Iran, with an updated species checklist

The material of the present checklist has been collected from the Iranian intertidal and shallow subtidal shores of the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman from 2015 to 2019, in addition to re-examining all the materials deposited in the Zoological Museum of the University of Tehran. This checklist providing 16 new records for the Persian Gulf and 15 for the Gulf of Oman raised the number of recorded caridean shrimps to 109 and 49 for these gulfs, respectively. However, the actual number of these shrimps are higher than these numbers due to two facts. Firstly, most of the subtidal diverse ecosystems, e.g. coral reefs and seagrass bed have not been seriously investigated taxonomically. Secondly, there are some members of species complexes and probably some new species in the study which need to be carefully treated.

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Littoral mud shrimps (Decapoda: Gebiidea & Axiidea) of the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, Iran

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom ◽

10.1017/s0025315412001361 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 93 (4) ◽

pp. 999-1008 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Vahid Sepahvand ◽

Alireza Sari ◽

Hassan Salehi ◽

Seyed-Mohammad-Bagher Nabavi ◽

Seyed-Ghasem Ghorbanzadeh

Keyword(s):

Persian Gulf ◽

Habitat Type ◽

Subtidal Zone ◽

Gulf Of Oman ◽

The World ◽

Different Types ◽

Iranian Coast ◽

Shallow Subtidal ◽

The Persian Gulf ◽

World Distribution

The mud shrimps of Iran are not well known. Material for the present study was collected from 21 out of 51 intertidal localities from the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, Iran. In total, 11 species were found along the Iranian coast. These were belonging to three families, including Upogebiidae (Upogebia carinicauda, U. darwinii and U. pseudochelata), Callianassidae (Neocallichirus jousseaumei, N. calmani, Callichirus masoomi, Corallianassa coutierei, Michaelcallianassa indica, Paratrypaea bouvieri and Gourretia coolibah) and Callianideidae (Callianidea typa). Geographical distributions of the species were considered and the results show that each species is totally dependent on a special type of habitat. Comparing different types of habitat, sandy and muddy substrates of the intertidal and shallow subtidal zone are found as the dominant habitat type for all species, but some species have a preference for boulder dominated coasts or occupy already existing holes and crevices in the boulder and bedrocks. In addition, the world distribution of each species was considered, and according to their present recorded localities, these are grouped into two distributional categories including the Indo-West Pacific region and one in a broader area of the Indo-Pacific.

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A new sponge-dwelling species of Synalpheus Spence Bate, 1888 (Decapoda: Caridea: Alpheidae) from the Persian Gulf

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.4861.3.2 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4861 (3) ◽

pp. 338-348

Author(s):

HOSSEIN ASHRAFI ◽

ALIREZA SARI ◽

REZA NADERLOO

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Persian Gulf ◽

Cutting Edge ◽

Shallow Subtidal ◽

The Persian Gulf

The present study is based on material collected in the intertidal and shallow subtidal areas of two Islands in the Persian Gulf, Abu-Musa and Larak. The new species, Synalpheus pentaspinosus n. sp., is closely related to S. quinquedens Tattersall, 1921. These two species share a very characteristic, sixth pleonite armed posteriorly with five stout sharp teeth, a feature unique within the genus. The color of ovaries or freshly laid eggs, red-orange in S. pentaspinosus n. sp. vs. green in S. quinquedens, is the most obvious character, by which the new species may be distinguished from S. quinquedens in the field. In addition, the two species can be separated by two characters on the dactylus of the minor cheliped. In the new species, the dactylus is furnished with two prominent rows of setae, one dorsally and one mesially, and has a small concavity on the cutting edge, contrasting to only one mesial row of setae and no obvious concavity in S. quinquedens.

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Late Quaternary sea-level changes of the Persian Gulf

Quaternary Research ◽

10.1016/j.yqres.2015.04.007 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 84 (1) ◽

pp. 69-81 ◽

Cited By ~ 28

Author(s):

Stephen W. Lokier ◽

Mark D. Bateman ◽

Nigel R. Larkin ◽

Philip Rye ◽

John R. Stewart

Keyword(s):

Sea Level ◽

Persian Gulf ◽

Late Holocene ◽

Late Quaternary ◽

Sea Level Changes ◽

Coastal System ◽

Shallow Subtidal ◽

Forced Regression ◽

The Persian Gulf ◽

Holocene Sea Level

Late Quaternary reflooding of the Persian Gulf climaxed with the mid-Holocene highstand previously variously dated between 6 and 3.4 ka. Examination of the stratigraphic and paleoenvironmental context of a mid-Holocene whale beaching allows us to accurately constrain the timing of the transgressive, highstand and regressive phases of the mid- to late Holocene sea-level highstand in the Persian Gulf. Mid-Holocene transgression of the Gulf surpassed today's sea level by 7100–6890 cal yr BP, attaining a highstand of > 1 m above current sea level shortly after 5290–4570 cal yr BP before falling back to current levels by 1440–1170 cal yr BP. The cetacean beached into an intertidal hardground pond during the transgressive phase (5300–4960 cal yr BP) with continued transgression interring the skeleton in shallow-subtidal sediments. Subsequent relative sea-level fall produced a forced regression with consequent progradation of the coastal system. These new ages refine previously reported timings for the mid- to late Holocene sea-level highstand published for other regions. By so doing, they allow us to constrain the timing of this correlatable global eustatic event more accurately.

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