scholarly journals First record of Viminella sp. (Anthozoa: Alcyonacea: Ellisellidae) in the Persian Gulf

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shemshad Shahbazi ◽  
Nasrin Sakhaei ◽  
Hossein Zolgharnein ◽  
Catherine McFadden
Keyword(s):  
Persian Gulf ◽  
First Record ◽  
Optical Microscope ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Single Specimen ◽  
Basal Diameter ◽  
The North ◽  
The Persian Gulf ◽  
Morphology Characteristics ◽  
Local Fisherman

This paper presents the first record ofViminellaGray 1870 from the Persian Gulf. This genus has a global distribution and its largest distribution is in the Indo-Pacific region. A single specimen was collected by a local fisherman from south Hengam Island (the north Persian Gulf) from 60-70 m depth. Colony morphology characteristics were examined by stereomicroscope and optical microscope. Descriptions of the colony and other taxonomic characteristics are provided. The colony is unbranched with a height of 12 cm and its basal diameter is approximately 1.63 mm. The sclerites of the coenenchyme comprise a variety of symmetrical double heads and capstan-like forms (0.05-0.11 mm). In the wall of calyces, slightly elongated double heads, capstans and spindles (about 0.08-0.19 mm) are present. Our finding extends the known geographical distribution of this genus in the Indo-Pacific region to the Persian Gulf.

First record of the heart urchin Metalia persica (Mortensen, 1940) (Spatangoida: Brissidae) from the Chennai coast, India

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4624 (2) ◽  
pp. 296-300
Author(s):  
CHAMUNDEESWARI KANAGARAJ ◽  
RICH MOOI ◽  
DEEPAK SAMUEL VIJAY KUMAR ◽  
HRISHIKESH PREMACHANDRAN ◽  
ABHILASH KOTTARATHIL RAJENDRAN ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bay Of Bengal ◽  
Persian Gulf ◽  
Arabian Gulf ◽  
First Record ◽  
Single Specimen ◽  
The Family ◽  
Indian Waters ◽  
By Catch ◽  
The Persian Gulf ◽  
First Time

The irregular urchin, Metalia persica (Mortensen, 1940), a heart urchin of the family Brissidae, is reported for the first time from the southeastern coast of India. A single specimen was collected from fishing by-catch at Chinna Neelankarai (12º 56’ 29.7” N, 80º 15’ 36.6” E),  Chennai on April 5, 2018. Metalia persica was previously recorded only from the Persian Gulf (Arabian Gulf). This study records Metalia persica for the first time from Indian waters, in the Bay of Bengal, and elucidates features of the anal fasciole. 

Palmyra under the Aegis of Rome

1963 ◽  
Vol 53 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 43-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. A. Richmond
Keyword(s):  
Persian Gulf ◽  
Geographical Isolation ◽  
Political Influences ◽  
The North ◽  
Intimate Knowledge ◽  
East And West ◽  
The Cross ◽  
The Persian Gulf

In the most southerly group of desert routes between Syria and Mesopotamia Palmyra lies at the cross-roads. The north-eastward route from Damascus to Circesium is crossed by the eastward route from Emesa, now Homs, to Babylonia. Palmyra owes this key-position first to its precious springs and secondly to the fact that here the natural traffic lines from west to east debouch from the Syrian mountains into the head of the eastwardlooking basin of the Wadi el Khorr, a winter tributary of the Euphrates. Nor were these obvious routes the sole possibility. At Circesium the Euphrates may be crossed: at its eastward turn the lower river and its valley-dwellers become dominant—here runs the modern frontier between Syria and Iraq. Avoiding this control, caravan routes, negotiable solely by those with intimate knowledge of the waste and its people, lead direct to the heart of Mesopotamia and onwards to the Persian Gulf. As between East and West, Palmyra, an island in the desert, offered both a mart for exchange and an essential staging-point for direct through traffic. Its possessors were by nature masters of the situation; and, while they might be subject to the cultural or political influences of either East or West, their geographical isolation secured for them an independence founded upon pre-eminent experience of desert ways, which constituted them the natural masters and middlemen of the caravan routes that met and branched or crossed in their oasis.

Further data on Iranian marine nematode diversity, with description of three new Desmodoridae Filipjev, 1922 (Nematoda: Desmodorida) species from the Persian Gulf

Nematology ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Azadeh Gharahkhani ◽  
Ebrahim Pourjam ◽  
Daniel Leduc ◽  
Majid Pedram
Keyword(s):  
Persian Gulf ◽  
Buccal Cavity ◽  
First Record ◽  
The Body ◽  
Pharyngeal Bulb ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Nematode Diversity ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
The Persian Gulf ◽  
Amphidial Fovea

Summary The Desmodoridae is a diverse and widespread family of free-living nematodes. Here, we provide the first record of the group in the Persian Gulf and describe three new species: Metachromadoroides sinuspersici sp. n., Zalonema iranicum sp. n. and Z. supplementorum sp. n. Metachromadoroides sinuspersici sp. n. is characterised by finely annulated cuticle, short and stout cephalic sensilla, amphidial fovea on cuticular thickening, pharyngeal bulb well developed and partitioned into three sections, absence of precloacal supplements, and presence of 6-8 pairs of rounded postcloacal papillae. Zalonema iranicum sp. n. is characterised by papilliform subcephalic sensilla (best observed with SEM), convex cephalic capsule, large multispiral amphidial fovea with 4-5 turns in both males and females, buccal cavity with one ventrosublateral and two dorsal teeth and posterior body of males with lateral alae extending from the last third of the body to the cloacal aperture and ventral alae extending 1395-2250 μm anterior to the cloacal aperture, and no precloacal supplements. Zalonema supplementorum sp. n. is characterised by four subcephalic sensilla 1-2 μm long, multispiral amphidial fovea with three turns in both males and females, buccal cavity with one dorsal and two ventrosublateral teeth, males with lateral alae present on each side of body from posterior half of body to cloacal aperture, ventral alae extending 942-1257 μm anterior to cloacal aperture, strongly cuticularised spicules 41-43 μm long, and 12-16 precloacal supplements. Near full length SSU and partial D2-D3 LSU sequences are provided for M. sinuspersici sp. n. and Z. iranicum sp. n., and the COI sequence is provided for Z. iranicum. The SSU phylogeny suggests a close relationship between M. sinuspersici sp. n. and Metachromadora and Metachromadoroides species and the monophyly of Zalonema (after currently available data). The LSU phylogeny suggests an affinity between Metachromadoroides and Zalonema with Spirinia and Acanthopharynx, respectively.

Mites of the genera Leioseius Berlese and Protogamasellus Karg (Mesostigmata, Ascidae) in mangrove forests in southern Iran, with a key to the genera and species of Ascidae recorded from Iran

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (7) ◽  
pp. 1319-1336
Author(s):  
Shahrooz Kazemi
Keyword(s):  
Persian Gulf ◽  
Littoral Zone ◽  
First Record ◽  
Mangrove Forests ◽  
Qeshm Island ◽  
Southern Iran ◽  
Adult Females ◽  
Intraspecific Variations ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Persian Gulf

In a survey on the edaphic mesostigmatic mites in mangrove forests of Qeshm Island, eastern of the Persian Gulf, two species of the family Ascidae were collected in broken cockleshells and sand in littoral zone: Leioseius sepidehae sp. nov. and Protogamasellus mica (Athias-Henriot, 1961). This is the first record of the genus Leioseius from Iran. Leioseius sepidehae sp. nov. is described from adult females. Intraspecific variations of some characters of P. mica are discussed, and based on those, P. primitivus machadoi Genis, Loots & Ryke, 1967 and P. primitivus similis Genis, Loots & Ryke, 1967 are herein synonymized under P. mica. Finally, the occasional presence of the gland pores gv1 in Ascidae is reviewed, and a key to the Iranian genera and species of Ascidae is presented.

scholarly journals Application of wavelet transform for evaluation of hydrocarbon reservoirs: example from Iranian oil fields in the north of the Persian Gulf

2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. R. Saadatinejad ◽  
H. Hassani
Keyword(s):  
Wavelet Transform ◽  
Continuous Wavelet Transform ◽  
Persian Gulf ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Petroleum Reservoirs ◽  
Oil Fields ◽  
Continuous Wavelet ◽  
The North ◽  
The Persian Gulf ◽  
Southwest Of Iran

Abstract. The Persian Gulf and its surrounding area are some of the biggest basins and have a very important role in producing huge amounts of hydrocarbon, and this potential was evaluated in order to explore the target for geoscientists and petroleum engineers. Wavelet transform is a useful and applicable technique to reveal frequency contents of various signals in different branches of science and especially in petroleum studies. We applied two major capacities of continuous mode of wavelet transform in seismic investigations. These investigations were operated to detect reservoir geological structures and some anomalies related to hydrocarbon to develop and explore new petroleum reservoirs in at least 4 oilfields in the southwest of Iran. It had been observed that continuous wavelet transform results show some discontinuities in the location of faults and are able to display them more clearly than other seismic methods. Moreover, continuous wavelet transform, utilizing Morlet wavelet, displays low-frequency shadows on 4 different iso-frequency vertical sections to identify reservoirs containing gas. By comparing these different figures, the presence of low-frequency shadows under the reservoir could be seen and we can relate these variations from anomalies at different frequencies as an indicator of the presence of hydrocarbons in the target reservoir.

scholarly journals A fifth-millennium BC cemetery in the north Persian Gulf: the Zohreh Prehistoric Project

Antiquity ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 90 (353) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abbas Moghaddam
Keyword(s):  
Persian Gulf ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Research Programme ◽  
Northern Coast ◽  
Archaeological Survey ◽  
Khuzestan Province ◽  
Digital Reference ◽  
The North ◽  
Registration Number ◽  
The Persian Gulf

The Zohreh Prehistoric Project (ZPP), a long-term archaeological research programme focused on the river valley south of the modern city of Behbahan in Khuzestan Province, was launched in April 2015 (Figure 1). The valley, which lies in close proximity to the northern coast of the Persian Gulf, was surveyed extensively during the early 1970s by Hans Nissen from the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (Nissen & Redman 1971; Dittmann 1984, 1986). The ZPP aims to develop full-coverage archaeological survey of the valley, focusing on the human landscape over time, mostly in relation to settlement hierarchy and dynamics, modes of production and the emergence of regional centres at the end of the fifth and beginning of the fourth millennia BC. The focal point for the project is the principal site of the Zohreh Valley, known as Tol-e Chega Sofla (39RN1Q22108; the site was previously registered as Chogha Sofla, BZ.71 (Dittmann 1984: 110). We have changed this to reflect its local name. The digital reference is the unique Iranian archaeology map registration number.

First record ofClypeomorus isselii(Pagenstecher, 1877) (Gastropoda: Cerithiidae) from the Persian Gulf, Iran

2010 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-110
Author(s):  
Fateme Amini Yekta ◽  
Aria Ashja Ardalan ◽  
Mohammad Reza Shokri
Keyword(s):  
Persian Gulf ◽  
First Record ◽  
The Persian Gulf

New data on the sedimentary processes and timing of the initial inundation of Lower Khuzestan (SW Iran) by the Persian Gulf

The Holocene ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 613-620 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frieda Bogemans ◽  
Mathieu Boudin ◽  
Rindert Janssens ◽  
Cecile Baeteman
Keyword(s):  
Persian Gulf ◽  
Sedimentary Environment ◽  
Hard Water ◽  
Fluvial Systems ◽  
The North ◽  
Holocene Transgression ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Sw Iran ◽  
Fluvial Sedimentation ◽  
The Persian Gulf

The early- and mid-Holocene deposits of the Lower Khuzestan plain at the north-eastern margin of the Persian Gulf have been investigated by means of facies analysis of sediment successions of undisturbed cores. Organic material and molluscs have been selected for dating by radiocarbon whereby possible contamination by hard-water effect is discussed. The results suggest that the Holocene transgression in Mesopotamia may have taken place later than generally accepted. Before ca. 7700–7900 yr cal. BP, the plain was characterized by mud-dominated fluvial systems. During the mid-Holocene, tides invaded the existing valleys, and the sedimentary environment shifted from fluvial to estuarine but not as extensively as has previously been suggested. The estuarine environments lasted for about 2000–2500 years until ca. 4850–5000 yr cal. BP when the seaward part of the plain was again characterized by widespread fluvial sedimentation.

scholarly journals First record of the African spadefish, Tripterodon orbis Playfair, 1867 (family: Ephippidae) from the north-east coast of India

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pralaya Ranjan Behera ◽  
Shubhadeep Ghosh ◽  
M. Satish Kumar
Keyword(s):  
East Coast ◽  
First Record ◽  
Northern Region ◽  
Single Specimen ◽  
Meristic Characters ◽  
East Coast Of India ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Gill Net ◽  
First Occurrence

A single specimen of the African spadefish,Tripterodon orbis, was landed in a gill net operating off Visakhapatnam on 13 December 2013. The morphometric and meristic characters of the recorded specimen are described and discussed herein. This is the first occurrence of the species from the north-east coast of India, exhibiting an extension in distribution from the southern to the northern region, along the Bay of Bengal.

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