Pteroeides

Namin, Samimi & Ofwegen, Van, 2009, Some shallow water octocorals (Coelenterata: Anthozoa) of the Persian Gulf, Zootaxa 2058, pp. 1-52 : 49

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 .