Short communication: 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. ... In the present paper, a subtidal species of the genus Petrolisthes Stimpson, 1858, P. militaris (Heller, 1862), is reported based on two specimens collected from the Iranian coast. Although P. militaris has been already recorded from of the Persian Gulf (Kuwait waters) and Oman Sea, the present material represents the first definite record of the species from the Persian Gulf based on the short description of illustrations.