Echinopora hirsutissima Milne Edwards & Haime 1849

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.Published as part of Samiei, Jahangir Vajed, Dab, Koosha, Ghezellou, Parviz & Shirvani, Arash, 2013, Some scleractinian corals (Scleractinia: Anthozoa) of Larak Island, Persian Gulf, pp. 101-143 in Zootaxa 3636 (1) on page 124, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3636.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/24943