Figure 2
The World distribution and new records of the Petrolisthes virgatus (Paul'son, 1875Paul'son, O.M. 1875. Studies on Crustacea of the Red Sea: With Notes Regarding Other Seas. Kiev, SV Kul'zhenko, 164p. ): (1) Goal or Ras Muhammad, Sinai Peninsula, Red Sea (type locality) (Paul'son, 1875Paul'son, O.M. 1875. Studies on Crustacea of the Red Sea: With Notes Regarding Other Seas. Kiev, SV Kul'zhenko, 164p. ); (2) Obock, Djibouti, Gulf of Aden (Nobili, 1906Nobili, G. 1906. Faune carcinologique de la mer Rouge Décapodes et Stomatopodes. Annales des sciences naturelles, 4(9): 1-347.); (3) Shadwan Island in the mouth of the Gulf of Suez, Egypt, Red Sea (Balss, 1915Balss, H. 1915. Die Decapoden des Roten Meeres. II. Anomuren, Dromiaceen und Oxystomen. Expeditionen SM Schiff "Pola" in das Rote Meer. Nördliche und südliche Häfte 1 895/96-1 897/98. Zoologische Ergebnisse XXXI. Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse, 92: 1-20.); (4) Ghardaqa, Egypt, Red Sea (Ramadan, 1936Ramadan, M.M. 1936. Report on a Collection of Stomatopoda and Decapoda from Ghardaga, Red Sea. Giza, Egyptian University, 43p. ); (5) Elath, Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea (Lewinsohn, 1979Lewinsohn, C. 1979. Researches on the coast of Somalia. The shore and the dune of Sar Uanle: 23. Porcellanidae (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura): Pubblicazioni Del Centro Di Studio Per La Faunistica Ed Ecologia Tropicali Del CNR: CLXX Monitore Zoologico Italiano. Supplemento, 12(1): 39-57.); (6) unknown exact locality, Red Sea (E. Rüppell collector, 1826: deposited in Senckenberg Museum at Frankfurt, accessible via http://sesam.senckenberg.de/page/index.htm); (7) Tabuk, Saudi Arabia, Red Sea (B. Werding collector, 2013: deposited in Senckenberg Museum at Frankfurt, accessible via http://sesam.senckenberg.de/page/index.htm); (8) Mozambique (Barnard, 1955Barnard, K.H. 1955. Additions to the fauna-list of South African Crustacea and Pycnogonida. Annals of The South African Museum, 43: 1-107.; Kalk, 1958Kalk, M. 1958. Ecological studies on the shores of Mozambique. 1. The fauna of intertidal rocks at Inhaca Island, Delagoa Bay. Annals of the Natal Museum, 14(2): 189-242.; Macnae and Kalk, 1958Macnae, W. and Kalk, M. 1958. A Natural History of Inhaca Island, Moçambique. Johannesburg, Witswatersrand University Press, 163p. ; Kensley, 1970Kensley, B.F. 1970. A small collection of decapod Crustacea from Moçambique. Annals of The South African Museum, 57: 103-122.); (9) Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (Ortmann, 1894Ortmann, A.E. 1894. Crustaceen. Jena, G. Fischer, 108p. ) as P. trivirgatus Ortmann, 1894; (10) Zanzibar, Tanzania (Lenz, 1905Lenz, H. 1905. Ostafrikanische Dekapoden und Stomatopoden. gesammelt von Herrn Prof. Dr. A. Voeltzkow. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft, 27: 341-392, pls. 47-48. ) as P. trivirgatus (see Taramelli, 1955Taramelli, E. 1955. Crostacei di Zanzibar (Decapodi e Stomatopodi). Ramo editoriale degli Agricoltori, 15: 29-47.); (11) Hirashima, Ogasawara Island, Japan (Ooishi, 1970Ooishi, S. 1970. Marine invertebrate fauna of the Ogasawara and Volcano Islands collected by S. Ooishi, Y. Tomida, K. Izawa and S. Manabe. In: Report on the marine biological expedition to the Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands, 75-89.); (12) Sar Uanle, south of Chisimaio, Somalia (Lewinsohn, 1969Lewinsohn, C. 1969. Die Anomuren des Roten Meeres (Crustacea Decapoda: Paguridea, Galatheidea, Hippidea) 1). Zoologische Verhandelingen, 104(1): 1-210.); (13) Mughsayl and Mirbat, southern Oman (Hogarth, 1988Hogarth, P.J. 1988. Anomuran Crustacea (Paguridea, Porcellanidae, and Hippidea) from Oman, principally from Dhofar province, southern Oman. Journal of Natural History, 22(4): 1095-1110.); (14) Socotra Island, Indian Ocean (Simões et al., 2001Simões, N.; Apel, M. and Jones, D. A. 2001. Intertidal habitats and decapod faunal assemblages (Crustacea: Decapoda) of Socotra Island, Republic of Yemen. Hydrobiologia, 449(1-3): 81-97.); (15) Amami Group Island, Japan (Nakasone and Miyake, 1972Nakasone, Y. and Miyake, S. 1972. Four unrecorded porcellanid crabs (Anomura: Porcellanidae) from Japan. Bulletin of the College of Science. University of the Ryukyus, 15: 136-147.); (16) Yakabi-Jima Island, Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan (Nomura et al., 1996Nomura, K.; Nagai, S.; Asakura, A. and Komai, T. 1996. A preliminary list of shallow water decapods Crustacea in the Kerama Group, the Ryukyu Archipelago. Bulletin of the Biogeographical Society of Japan, 51(2): 7-21.); (17) Fan-Zai-Aou Bay, southern East China Sea, off the coast of Keelung City in northern Taiwan (Limviriyakul et al., 2016); with new records of this species from (18) the Djod Village, Sistan and Balouchestan Province, Gulf of Oman, Iran (present study) and (19) the Abu-Musa Island, Persian Gulf, Iran (present study).