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Maps showing the sampling locations. Site 1 was outside but close to (1.6 km) the mouth of Sharm Obhur, while site 2 was located within the sharm, 1.2 km inside its mouth and 9 km from its head. Site 3 was about 50 km northwest of the sharm mouth and was an open-water coral reef named Abu Madafi Reef.
