Cuapetes grandis Stimpson, 1860

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 : 15-16

Cuapetes grandis Stimpson, 1860

Persian Gulf. First Persian Gulf record.

Iran. Hormozgan Province: Qeshm I. (Zeytun Park Beach), Mahtabi.

General distribution. Indo-West Pacific: East Africa ( Mozambique, Zanzibar, Tanzania, Kenya), Madagascar, Comoro Is., Seychelles, Red Sea, Djibouti, Yemen, Persian Gulf, Sri Lanka, Burma, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, China, Japan, Papua New Guinea, Australia (Great Barrier Reef), Caroline Is., Marshall Islands, Tuvalu, Tuamotus, Fiji, New Caledonia, French Polynesia.

Habitat. Rocky/cobble intertidal, this species has been reported from the coral reef intertidal to 24 m (see Bruce 2004; Li 2008).

Remarks. In his comprehensive revision of the genus Periclimenes Costa, 1884 , Bruce (2004) introduced the genus Kemponia and moved 24 species previously placed in Periclimenes to this new genus. Okuno (2009) noted that the genus Cuapetes Clark, 1919 , is a senior synonym of Kemponia Bruce, 2004 , and must be used instead. The detailed description and illustrations of the species have been provided by Kemp (1922), Holthuis (1952) and Bruce (1976).