Microporella verrucosa (Peach, 1868) from the Ionian Sea, Ciclopi Islands MPA, PMC. Rosso Collection I.H. B-17a A typical rhomboidal autozooids with large avicularia, transversely C-shaped fissure-like ascopore at the same level as the frontal shield, large pseudopores and larger marginal areolae, and thin oral spines surrounding the distal half of the orifice B autozooids, two of which have ovicells pierced by small, evenly distributed pseudopores, and outlined by a row of few, large, elongate pores C horseshoe-shaped orifice with blunt lateral condyles and slightly corrugated proximal border at the end of a smooth proximal shelf. Note the distal rim of calcification D a possibly abutted autozooid lacking the orifice E autozooids, one exceptionally developing paired avicularia F unbleached colony portion with opercula and open mandibles. Scale bars: 200 µm (A, B, D–F); 50 µm (C).