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Leptastrea pruinosa Crossland 1952
Description
Leptastrea pruinosa Crossland, 1952
(Fig. 31)
Material: ZUTC Cnid. 1026, 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 encrusting, light brown with creamy brown tentacles which are mostly extended during the day. Corallites are smaller than two other congeneric species (less than 4 mm).
Abundance: uncommon.
Depth of occurrence: About 3 m.
Notes
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 132, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3636.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/249436
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Faviidae
- Genus
- Leptastrea
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Scleractinia
- Phylum
- Cnidaria
- Scientific name authorship
- Crossland
- Species
- pruinosa
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Leptastrea pruinosa Crossland, 1952 sec. Samiei, Dab, Ghezellou & Shirvani, 2013