Grapsus granulosus H. Milne Edward, 1853

Naderloo, Reza & Türkay, Michael, 2012, Decapod crustaceans of the littoral and shallow sublittoral Iranian coast of the Persian Gulf: Faunistics, Biodiversity and Zoogeography 3374, Zootaxa 3374 (1), pp. 1-67 : 46

Grapsus granulosus H. Milne Edward, 1853

Persian Gulf. Saudi Arabia ( Apel 2001), UAE ( Apel 2001), Iran (Naderloo 2011; present study)

Iran. Hormozgan Province: Qeshm I. (five stations along the south coast).

General distribution. Northwestern Indian Ocean: Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and recently entered South Mediterranean Sea from the Red Sea through the Suez Canal (Zaouali et al. 2007; Galil 2011).

Habitat. Rocky/cobble intertidal.

Remarks. Grapsus granulosus H. Milne Edwards, 1853 , has repeatedly been considered to be a junior synonym of Grapsus albolineatus (e.g. Alcock 1900; Banerjee 1960; Davie 2002), whereas Crosnier (1965), Vannini & Valmori (1981), Zaouali et al. (2007), Ng et al. (2008) and Naderloo (2011) considered it as a distinct species. This species is distinguishable from its closely related congener, G. albolineatus , by using a combination of characters (see Naderloo 2011).