The biodiversity of the Persian Gulf and the Oman Sea is unique: corals, dugongs, birds, sea turtles, oysters, jellyfish, sea star, sea cucumber, anemones, fishes, crabs and many other species even whales and whale sharks live in this marine ecosystem. In this atlas, we show the result of 6 years of labour collecting fish samples and more than 1 year collaborating of scientists from Iran and Spain.

Zahra Sadighzadeh is researcher of Islamic Azad University (Tehran, Iran); Víctor M. Tuset, José L. Otero-Ferrer & Antoni Lombarte are researchers of Instituto de Ciencies del Mar (CSIC) (Barcelona, Spain); and Mohammad R. Dadpour is researcher of University of Tabriz (Tabriz, Iran).