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.

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 .