Schizoretepora hassi Harmelin, Bitar & Zibrowius, 2007

Schizoretepora hassi Harmelin et al., 2007: 181, figs 1–2, 3a.

Schizoretepora hassi – Sokolover et al. 2016: 443.

Remarks

Schizoretepora hassi occurs in the eastern Mediterranean (Lebanon coast) only and is found in shaded rocky habitats between 3 and 36 m deep. Its origin is unresolved, being either a steno-endemic in the Levantine Basin or an Erythraean immigrant (Harmelin et al. 2007). This species shows a great variability in colony shape, from fenestrate to ramose and bilaminated as well as a large variability in the zooidal characters, frontal shield and number of avicularia depending on their position, age and locality (Harmelin et al. 2007). Schizoretepora hassi is very similar to S. aviculifera (see remarks above).