Echinopora hirsutissima Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849

Samiei, Jahangir Vajed, Dab, Koosha, Ghezellou, Parviz & Shirvani, Arash, 2013, Some scleractinian corals (Scleractinia: Anthozoa) of Larak Island, Persian Gulf, Zootaxa 3636 (1), pp. 101-143 : 124

Echinopora hirsutissima Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849

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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.

Figures

FIGURE 22. Echinopora hirsutissima, a & c, variation of exoskeleton; b, close up of corallite; d, underwater photograph of the colony; e – f, underwater photograph of polyps from different parts of the same colony.