Zoogeography of recent ostracoda from North West Arabian Gulf

Abstract EN

The Ostracoda from 89 samples of recent sediments from fourteen traverses along Khor Al-Zubair channel, southern Iraq have been studied.

Forty-two species ofmarine arid non-marine Ostracodes belonging to twenty-eight genera have been recorded, including twenty species recorded for the first time in Iraq.

The distribution of each species is discussed from placogeographical point ofview in relation to the adjacent and related regions.

The affinities indicate distinctive migratory routes ; the first from Indian Ocean to the Red Sea and the second route from Indian Ocean to the Arabian Gulf and Southern Iraq, therefore the origin of most of the species in the stodied area is indo-pacific bioprovince.

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