Some shallow water octocorals (Coelenterata: Anthozoa) of the Persian Gulf
Author
Namin, Samimi
Author
Ofwegen, Van
text
Zootaxa
2009
2058
1
52
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.186743
ec14c88f-d887-4567-a824-dbf1078cda03
1175-5326
186743
Pteroeides
sp.
Material:
RMNH
Coel. 38797, one colony, Kharku Island,
29º 20' 51.1" N
,
50º 21' 17.7" E
, coll. K. Samimi Namin,
31 March 2007
.
TABLE 1.
Collection sites with octocoral species.
Farur Island:
Sinularia erecta
Tixier-Durivault, 1945
;
Subergorgia suberosa
(
Pallas, 1766
)
;
Junceella juncea
(
Pallas
,
1766);
Echinogorgia
sp. (
2x
);
Echinomuricea
sp. (
2x
);
Euplexaura plana
n. sp.
;
Menella
sp.;
Trimuricea
aff.
reticulata
(
Thomson & Simpson, 1909
);
Veretillum
sp.
Hengam Island:
Sinularia erecta
Tixier-Durivault, 1945
;
S. compressa
Tixier-Durivault, 1945
;
Dendronephthya
sp.;
Muricella
sp.;
Echinomuricea
sp.;
Astrogorgia fruticosa
n. sp.
;
Junceella juncea
(
Pallas, 1766
)
;
Cavernularia
sp.;
Virgularia
sp.
Kharku Island:
Dendronephthya
sp.;
Echinomuricea
sp.;
Junceella juncea
(
Pallas, 1766
)
;
Euplexaura
sp.;
Pteroeides
sp.
Kish Island:
Menella
sp.;
Junceella juncea
(
Pallas, 1766
)
;
Echinomuricea
sp.
Larak Island:
Sinularia erecta
Tixier-Durivault, 1945
;
Sarcophyton minusculum
n. sp.
;
Menella
sp.
Qeshm
Island:
Subergorgia suberosa
(
Pallas, 1766
)
,
Echinogorgia
sp.;
Euplexaura
sp.;
Paraplexaura
sp.;
Junceella juncea
(
Pallas, 1766
)
;
Verrucella
cf.
reticulata
(
Thomson & Simpson, 1909
)
.
Close to Strait of
Hormuz
(mentioned by
Stiasny, 1940
):
Subergorgia suberosa
(
Pallas, 1766
)
(described as
Subergorgia perezi
by
Stiasny, 1940
);
Menella bahrelfarsi
Stiasny, 1940
(described as
Echinogorgia bahrelfarsi
by Stiasny);
Echinogorgia macrospiculata
Thomson & Simpson, 1909
;
Junceella juncea
(
Pallas, 1766
)
(described as
Junceella fragilis
Ridley, 1884
, by
Stiasny, 1940
).
Off
Bahrain
:
Acanthogorgia spinosa
Hiles, 1899
.
Off Dubai:
Junceella juncea
(
Pallas, 1766
)
.
Off
Kuwait
:
Carijoa
sp.;
Echinomuricea
sp.;
Euplexaura
sp.;
Menella
cf.
kanisa
Grasshoff, 2000
.
Unknown locality (mentioned by
Thomson & Simpson, 1909
):
Solenocaulon tortuosum
(
Gray, 1862
)
;
Echinogorgia ramulosa
(
Gray, 1870
)
;
Versluysia ramosa
(
Thomson & Henderson, 1905
)
;
Parisis fruticosa
Verrill, 1864
.