Alpheus splendidus Coutière, 1897 (Fig. 6F) Alpheus splendidus Coutière, 1897a: 235; De Man, 1924: 41; 1929: 23; Crosnier & Forest, 1966: 361; Banner & Banner, 1982: 56; Chace, 1988: 54; Anker & De Grave, 2016: 368. Material examined. PG : 1 male, 1 female (ZUTC 6672) Hormuz I., under large boulder, Coll. A. Sharifi, 4 Dec. 2015; 3 males (ZUTC 6670), Abu-Musa I., under large boulder, Coll. A. Dehghani, 10 May 2016; GO: 1 male, 1 female (ZUTC 6671), Chabahar Bay, Tis, under large boulder, Coll. A. Dehghani, 2 Oct. 2016. Distribution. Indo-West Pacific: Red Sea, PG, GO, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Australia and Southern China. Regional records. PG and GO: Iran (present study). Habitat. This species was collected from sandy-boulder shores and under dead corals and boulders in lower intertidal to 3 m deep. Remarks. Anker & De Grave (2016) recorded two color patterns for this species in Singapore and mentioned it as a cryptic or pseudo-cryptic species in the Indo-West Pacific. However, the specimens of current study show uniformity in the color pattern and mostly agree with material from Singapore figured by Anker & De Grave (2016: fig. 29c).

Published as part of Dehghani, Amir, Sari, Alireza & Naderloo, Reza, 2019, Annotated checklist of the snapping shrimps of the genus Alpheus Fabricius, 1798 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alpheidae) from the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, Iran, pp. 479-504 in Zootaxa 4544 (4) on page 491, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4544.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/2618475