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Matuta victor (Fabricius, 1781) * Material examined. 1 male (34.5 x 24.3 mm) (DABFUK), Minicoy, 29 August 2013; 1 female (31.0 x 22.7 mm) (DABFUK), Kavaratti, 7 November 2013. Remarks. New record from Lakshadweep. This species was also observed from Agatti but material was not collected., Published as part of Devi, S. Suvarna, Mendoza, Jose C. E., Ravinesh, R., Idress Babu, K. K., Kumar, A. Biju & Ng, Peter K. L., 2019, On a collection of brachyuran crabs from Lakshadweep, Indian Ocean (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura), pp. 477-501 in Zootaxa 4613 (3) on page 480, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4613.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/3239869

The presence and the establishment of Idotea hectica is reported for the first time in the Hellenic seas on the basis of three adult specimens and a juvenile collected from Posidonia oceanica meadows close to the main town of Rhodes Island, Aegean Sea. Common and contrasting characters between this and other species of the genera Idotea and Pentidotea are briefly discussed. Furthermore, following a westward expansion along the eastern Mediterranean coasts, Matuta victor was discovered for the first time in Hellenic waters on the basis of a single specimen from the northeast of Rhodes Island.

Matuta victor (Fabricius, 1781) Persian Gulf. Kuwait (Jones 1986a), Bahrain (Hornby 1997), UAE (Apel 2001), Iran (Pretzmann 1971; present study). Iran. Hormozgan Province: Qeshm I. (Basaeedu, Plage-Simin), Bandar-Abbas, Bandar-Lengeh. General distribution. Indo-West Pacific: East Africa, Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, Socotra, southern Oman (Dhofar), Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Andaman Sea, Malaysia, Thailand, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Philippines, Singapore, Indonesia, Australia (Western Australia, Queensland), New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Fiji. Habitat. Sandy shallow subtidal. Remarks. Jones (1906a) and Pretzmann (1971) recorded Matuta lunaris (Forskål, 1775) from the Persian Gulf. Galil & Clark (1994) introduced a new genus, namely Ashtoret and moved M. lunaris to the new genus. Apel (2001) mentioned that the all records under the name of Matuta lunaris from the region are more probably Matuta victor (Fabricius, 1781), whereas A. lunaris does not occur in the Persian Gulf. The present specimens from the Persian Gulf are slightly different from that described by Galil & Clark (1994), in particular regarding the morphology of the first male gonopod. We examined several specimens from different region of the Indo-West Pacific; there are some variations in the morphology of the first male gonopod among different regions, but no one found to be similar with that figured by Galil & Clark (1994: 43, figs a–b). There is a need for a thorough taxonomic revision of the widely distributed species Matuta victor in the Indo-West Pacific. The two species, M. victor and A. lunaris inhabit the low-intertidal towards the sub-littoral zone of sandy beaches, while during the present study only M. victor was collected along the Iranian coast., Published as part of Naderloo, Reza & Türkay, Michael, 2012, Decapod crustaceans of the littoral and shallow sublittoral Iranian coast of the Persian Gulf: Faunistics, Biodiversity and Zoogeography 3374, pp. 1-67 in Zootaxa 3374 (1) on page 29, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3374.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5253502, {"references":["Jones, D. A. (1986 a) A field guide to the sea shores of Kuwait and the Persian Gulf. University of Kuwait Blandford Press, Poole, Kuwait, 192 pp.","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, Bulletin of the Emirates Natural History Group, 7 (2), 11 - 17.","Apel, M. (2001) Taxonomie und Zoogeographie der Brachyura, Paguridea und Porcellanidae (Crustacea: Decapoda) des Persisch-Arabischen Golfes. Unpublished doctoral thesis, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat, Frankfurt a. M., 268 pp.","Pretzmann, G., (1971) Ergebnisse einiger Sammelreisen nach Vorderasien. 2. Teil, Marine Brachyura. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien, 75, 477 - 487.","Galil, B. S. & Clark, P. F. (1994) A revision of the genus Matuta Weber, 1795 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Calappidae). Zoologische Verhandelingen, 294, 1 - 55."]}