catalog of ophiuroidea from southeastern coast of iran (northern parts of oman sea)

Chabahar bay is located in southeastern coast of iran and the northern part of the oman sea in the geographic area of 25°22 47˝n and 60°39 90˝e. this bay with a variety of coverings, such as, muddy, stone, sandy and rocky, has provided possibility of life for different taxa, such as, shellfish, mollusks, echinoderm (nikouyan and savari, 1999; ghanbarifardi and malek, 2009; yazdani et al., 2009; sadeghi and loghmani, 2010; khaleghi and owfi, 2011; fazeli et al., 2013; attaran et al., 2014). echinoderms with around 7,000 species can be found at every ocean depth of the marine ecosystems (mirzaei et al., 2019).