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SUBMITTER: Pohl T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3945051 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20140306
Until now, it has been well-established that coral complex in the Arabian/Persian Gulf only exist in the coastal regions of Bahrain, Iran, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates and it was thought that there are no coral reefs in Iraq. However, here for the first time we show the existence of a living 28 km(2) large coral reef in this country. These corals are adapted to one of the most extreme coral-bearing environments on earth: the seawater temperature in this area ranges ...[more]