Montipora sp.

Salimi, Parisa Alidoost, Mostafavi, Pargol Ghavam, Chen, Chaolun Allen, Fatemi, Seyed Mohammad Reza & Pichon, Michel, 2018, Microphysogobio bicolor, Zoological Studies 57 (56), pp. 1-34 : 3

Montipora sp.

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Synonym: Montipora de Blainville 1830 ; Manopora Dana, 1846.

Material examined: Abu-Musa Island ( ZUTC 6582).

Description: Color is uniformly pale light brown. Colony is encrusting to sub massive. Corallites diameter is almost 1 mm. Six septa in 2 alternating orders, secondary septa limited to wall. Corallites immersed. Theca papillae (5-6) taller than coenosteum papillae and not fused together. Coenosteum reticulated. Columella absent.

Remarks: The colony was small size. Corallites were relatively similar to those of Montipora aequituberculata ( Veron and Wallace 1984). The specimen of Montipora cf. aequituberculata deposited at ZTUC (Acc. No Cnid. 1003) have been re-examined, but its growth forms and the corallites does not resemble to the present specimen.

Distribution: Known from the northern part of the Persian Gulf.

Figures

Fig. 3. (a-b) Montipora sp. from Abu-Musa Island; (c-d) close-up of corallites. Scale bar = 1 mm.