Education

• Ph.D., Marine Biodiversity, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitaet, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 2011
• M.Sc., Biology – Animal Biosystematics, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, 2005
• B.Sc., Marine biology, University of Agricultural Science and Natural Resource of Gorgan, Iran, 2002

Fellowship

• Postdoctoral fellowship, University of Regesnburg, Regensburg, Germany, 2012

Research interests

• Crustacean biology
• Marine biodiversity
• Molecular phylogeny and biosystematics

Selected publications

• Book


Naderloo, R., 2017. Atlas of the Crabs of the Persian Gulf. Springer Verlag, Heidelberg. 440 pp.

• Review articles

Teng, S-J., Shih, H-T., Naderloo, R., Corbari, L., 2016. A review of the Chaenostoma boscii species-complex (Decapoda: Brachyura: Macrophthalmidae) from the Indo-West Pacific. Crustacean Research 45, 15– 27. DOI: 10.18353/crustacea.45.0-15

• Research articles

Parvizi, E., Naderloo, R., Keikhosravi, A., Schubart C.D., Solhjouy, S., 2018. Multiple Pleistocene refugia and repeated pattern of phylogeographic break in the southern Caspian Sea region: an insight from the freshwater crab Potamon ibericum. Journal of Biogeography 45(6): 1234-1245. DOI: 10.1111/jbi.13195

Klateh, A., Keikhosravi, A., Naderloo, R., Schubart, C.D., 2018. Hydrographic differentiation, allometric growth and morphometric maturity in the freshwater crab Potamon elbursi Pretzmann, 1962 using morphometric methods. Journal of Crustacean Biology 38(1): 91–100. DOI:10.1093/jcbiol/rux090

Parvizi, E., Naderloo, R., Keikhosravi, A., Schubart, C.D., 2017. Life history traits and patterns of sexual dimorphism in the freshwater crab Potamon ibericum (Bieberstein, 1809) (Decapoda: Brachyura: Potamidae) from the western Alborz Mountains, Iran. Journal of Crustacean Biology 37(3): 323–331. DOI: doi.org/10.1093/jcbiol/rux029

Naderloo, R., Schubart, C.D., Shih, H-T., 2016. Genetic and morphological separation of Uca occidentalis, a new East African fiddler crab species, from Uca annulipes (H. Milne Edward, 1837) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Ocypodidae). Zoologischer Anzeiger 262, 10–19. DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.jcz.2016.03.010

Naderloo, R., 2015. Two new species of Palapedia Ng, 1993 (Crustacea: Decapoda, Brachyura: Xanthidae) from the Persian Gulf. Zootaxa 3994 (2): 265–274. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3994.2.6

Shahdadi A., Sari, A., Naderloo, R., 2014. A checklist of barnacles (Crustacea: Cirripedia: Thoracica) of the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman with nine new records. Zootaxa, 3784 (3): 201–223. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3784.3.1

Naderloo, R., Türkay, M., Sari, A., 2013. Intertidal habitats and decapod (Crustacea) diversity of Qeshm Island, a biodiversity hotspot within the Persian Gulf. Marine Biodiversity 43(4): 445–462. DOI: doi.org/10.1007/s12526-013-0174-3

Naderloo, R., Apel, M., 2012. Leucosiid crabs of the genus Hiplyra Galil, 2009 (Crustacea; Brachyura; Leucosiidae) from the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman with describing a new species. Zoological studies, 51(2): 248–258.

Naderloo, R., Türkay, M. (2011) A new species of the Macrophthalmus boscii-group (Decapoda: Brachyura: Macrophthalmidae) from the Persian Gulf with designation a neotype for M. boscii Audouin (1826). Marine Biodiversity, 41, 503–515. DOI: doi.org/10.1007/s12526-010-0077-5

Naderloo, R., Schubart, C.D., 2010. Description of a new species of Parasesarma (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Sesarmidae) from the Persian Gulf, based on morphological and genetic characteristics. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 249, 33–43. DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.jcz.2010.01.003

Naderloo, R., Sari, A., 2007. New record of Hyastenus inermis (Rathbun, 1911) (Brachuyra, Majidae) from the Persian Gulf, Iran. Crustaceana, 80 (10), 1261–1264. DOI:10.1163/156854007782321128

Naderloo, R., Sari, A., 2005. Iranian subtidal leucosiid crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) of the Persian Gulf: Taxonomy and zoogeography. Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics, 1, 31–46.