Echinopora hirsutissima Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849

(Fig. 22)

Material: ZUTC Cnid. 1019, colony fragment, Larak Island, 26° 53' 14.4" N, 56° 23' 43.4" E, Coll. J. Vajed Samiei, November 2010.

Identification guide: Veron (2000)

Notes for local identification: Colonies are incrusting to sub-massive and have smaller corallites than E. grandicula . Colonies are brown with irregularly exserted polyps. The polyps are exserted mostly on the up-growths and not that much exserted at colonies’ margin.

Abundance: uncommon.

Depth of occurrence: About 3 to 5 m.