Echinogorgia Kölliker, 1865

Namin, Samimi & Ofwegen, Van, 2009, Some shallow water octocorals (Coelenterata: Anthozoa) of the Persian Gulf, Zootaxa 2058, pp. 1-52 : 12-13

Genus Echinogorgia Kölliker, 1865

Remarks. Without thorough revision of Echinogorgia we consider it impossible to identify species of this genus with any certainty.

At present we recognize four different species from the Persian Gulf, three of which are mentioned below.

Thomson & Simpson (1909) identified E. ramulosa ( Gray, 1870) from the Persian Gulf, a species originally described from unknown locality. It is doubtful Thomson & Simpson really had Gray’s species but from the information given by them it is obvious they indeed had a species belonging to Echinogorgia . Their Persian Gulf specimen differs from the three species below in being almost black and having its branches flattened in a plane perpendicular to the plane of branching.