Upogebia carinicauda (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 : 18-19

Upogebia carinicauda (Stimpson, 1860)

Persian Gulf. Iran ( Sepahvand & Sari 2010; present study).

Iran. Hormozgan Province: Qeshm I. (Dargahan, desalination center), Mahtabi.

General distribution. Indo-West Pacific: Madagascar, Red Sea, Persian Gulf, Sri Lanka, India, Mergui Archipelago, Vietnam, South China Sea, Hong Kong, Japan, Philippines, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Australia (Western Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland, NSW).

Habitat. Muddy-sand intertidal.

Remarks. Sakai (2006: 98–101) elaborately discussed on the variations, in particular on chelate and subchelate forms of the first pereopods which formerly had caused some taxonomic problems. He synonymized the recently described Upogebia rupicola Komai, 2005 , with U. carinicauda .