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The abundance and health of scleractinian coral communities of Hormuz Island were investigated. For this purpose, we employed 20 m line intercept transects—12 in the intertidal zone and 15 subtidally to evaluate coral cover and community composition. The estimated dead coral coverage was 6.21%±0.81%, while live coral coverage was 16.93%±1.81%, considered as very poor. Totally, 12 genera were recorded, of which Porites with 11.9%±1.4% live cover was the dominant, while Goniopora had the least cover (0.07%±0.08%). Based on Mann-Whitney U-test, live coral coverage, dead coral coverage, algal coverage, cover of other benthic organisms and abiotic components showed significant univariate differences between zones (p<0.05). The Spearman correlation test between the abundance of biotic and abiotic components indicated significant negative correlation of live coral and sand with zoantharian and significant positive correlation of algae and other benthic organisms with rubble. The reef health indices used for the corals indicated that, in general, the environmental conditions were not suitable, which could be attributed to both natural and anthropogenic factors, the most important of which was zoantharian’ overgrowth on the scleractinian corals in this region.

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This work was funded in partial fulfillment of the masters of Marine Biology degree by Tarbiat Modares University. The authors are grateful to Kaveh Samimi-Namin and Javid Kavousi for scientific and technical supports. We also wish to thank the anonymous reviewers for their helpful suggestions which have improved the manuscript and clarity of the manuscript.

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Pouryousef, Y., Seyfabadi, J., Rezai, H. et al. Scleractinian coral communities of Hormuz Island in the Persian Gulf. Acta Oceanol. Sin. 41, 48–57 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13131-022-2048-7

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