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<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Verseveldt &amp; Cohen" baseAuthorityYear="1971" class="Anthozoa" family="Xeniidae" genus="Xenia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="faraunensis">Xenia faraunensis</taxonomicName>
Verseveldt &amp; Cohen, 1971: 62, table 1;
<bibRefCitation author="Benayahu, Y" journalOrPublisher="Zoologische Mededelingen" pageId="36" pageNumber="37" pagination="113 - 120" refId="B6" refString="Benayahu, Y, 1990. Xeniidae (Cnidaria: Octocorallia) from the Red Sea with description of a new species. Zoologische Mededelingen 64: 113 - 120" title="Xeniidae (Cnidaria: Octocorallia) from the Red Sea with description of a new species." volume="64" year="1990">Benayahu 1990</bibRefCitation>
table 1 listed only;
<bibRefCitation author="Reinicke, GB" journalOrPublisher="Fauna of Saudi Arabia" pageId="37" pageNumber="38" pagination="5 - 62" refId="B31" refString="Reinicke, GB, 1997. Xeniidae (Coelenterata: Octocorallia) of the Red Sea with descriptions of six new species of Xenia. Fauna of Saudi Arabia 16: 5 - 62" title="Xeniidae (Coelenterata: Octocorallia) of the Red Sea with descriptions of six new species of Xenia." volume="16" year="1997">Reinicke 1997</bibRefCitation>
: 35, figs 3b, 9a-b, plates 2-4, 7, 22.
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<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Verseveldt &amp; Cohen" baseAuthorityYear="1971" class="Anthozoa" family="Xeniidae" genus="Ovabunda" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="faraunensis">Ovabunda faraunensis</taxonomicName>
;
<bibRefCitation author="Alderslade, P" journalOrPublisher="Bulletin of the biological Society of Washington" pageId="36" pageNumber="37" pagination="15 - 65" refId="B3" refString="Alderslade, P, 2001. Six new genera and six new species of soft corals, and some proposed familial and subfamilial changes within the Alcyonacea (Coelenterata: Octocorallia). Bulletin of the biological Society of Washington 10: 15 - 65" title="Six new genera and six new species of soft corals, and some proposed familial and subfamilial changes within the Alcyonacea (Coelenterata: Octocorallia)." volume="10" year="2001">Alderslade 2001</bibRefCitation>
: 51;
<bibRefCitation author="Aharonovich, D" journalOrPublisher="Marine Biodiversity" pageId="36" pageNumber="37" pagination="173 - 177" publicationUrl="10.1007/s12526-011-0102-3" refId="B1" refString="Aharonovich, D, Benayahu, Y, 2011. Microstructure of octocoral sclerites for diagnosis of taxonomic features. Marine Biodiversity 42 (2): 173 - 177, 10.1007/s12526-011-0102-3" title="Microstructure of octocoral sclerites for diagnosis of taxonomic features." url="10.1007/s12526-011-0102-3" volume="42" year="2011">Aharonovich and Benayahu 2011</bibRefCitation>
.
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<paragraph pageId="18" pageNumber="19">Material.</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">Holotype:</emphasis>
HUJ I. Co. 140, northern Red Sea, Gulf of Aqaba, opposite Gezirat
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(Coral Island) (
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,
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), 18 m, 15 October 1969, coll. Y. Cohen.
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<paragraph pageId="18" pageNumber="19">Description.</paragraph>
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The holotype is 16 mm high; its stalk is 6-10 mm long, 4 mm wide at the base and 7 mm wide at its uppermost part.
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body is up to 2-4 mm long and the tentacles 3-5 mm long, featuring two rows of pinnules on each side with 17-24 pinnules in the outermost row. The sclerites are
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-type spheroids (
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), measuring 0.013-0.028
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0.019-0.033 mm in diameter (n = 46 sclerites). Occasionally, two sclerites are fused, reaching up to 0.044 mm in maximal diameter (
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 11" captionStartId="F11" captionText="Figure 11. Scanning electron micrographs of polyp sclerites of Ovabunda faraunensis (Verseveldt &amp; Cohen, 1971) holotype (HUJ I. Co. 140). a Regular sclerites b Fused sclerite. Scale bar 10 µm." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/22446" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">Fig. 11b</figureCitation>
).
<bibRefCitation author="Verseveldt, J" journalOrPublisher="Israel Journal of Zoology" pageId="38" pageNumber="39" pagination="53 - 67" refId="B44" refString="Verseveldt, J, Cohen, J, 1971. Some new species of Octocorallia from the Gulf of Elat (Red Sea). Israel Journal of Zoology 20: 53 - 67" title="Some new species of Octocorallia from the Gulf of Elat (Red Sea)." volume="20" year="1971">Verseveldt and Cohen (1971)</bibRefCitation>
recorded non-pulsating polyps for this species. Colour of the ethanol-preserved holotype is beige.
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">Figure 11.</emphasis>
Scanning electron micrographs of polyp sclerites of
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(Verseveldt &amp; Cohen, 1971) holotype (HUJ I. Co. 140).
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Regular sclerites
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Fused sclerite. Scale bar 10
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.
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At the time of examination the holotype was dry, and therefore precise dimensions of the pinnules could not be obtained. The original description (
<bibRefCitation author="Verseveldt, J" journalOrPublisher="Israel Journal of Zoology" pageId="38" pageNumber="39" pagination="53 - 67" refId="B44" refString="Verseveldt, J, Cohen, J, 1971. Some new species of Octocorallia from the Gulf of Elat (Red Sea). Israel Journal of Zoology 20: 53 - 67" title="Some new species of Octocorallia from the Gulf of Elat (Red Sea)." volume="20" year="1971">Verseveldt and Cohen 1971</bibRefCitation>
: 62) indicated that: &quot;The colony is 25 mm high. The stem is 15 mm high and 5-6 mm wide at the base, then narrows to 3-4 mm and widens again to 7 mm or more at the beginning of the polyparium. The anthocodiae are up to 10 mm long... the tentacles are 5-6.5 mm long&quot;. It is evident that the dimensions of the dried holotype are smaller than those of the original. The other features of the holotype recorded correspond to the original description, including two rows of pinnules, 17-24 pinnules in the outermost row, and sclerite diameter up to 0.044 mm (
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">vs.</emphasis>
17-23 and 0.042 mm, in the original description).
<bibRefCitation author="Reinicke, GB" journalOrPublisher="Fauna of Saudi Arabia" pageId="37" pageNumber="38" pagination="5 - 62" refId="B31" refString="Reinicke, GB, 1997. Xeniidae (Coelenterata: Octocorallia) of the Red Sea with descriptions of six new species of Xenia. Fauna of Saudi Arabia 16: 5 - 62" title="Xeniidae (Coelenterata: Octocorallia) of the Red Sea with descriptions of six new species of Xenia." volume="16" year="1997">Reinicke (1997)</bibRefCitation>
presented a SEM micrograph of a single sclerite of
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which later led
<bibRefCitation author="Alderslade, P" journalOrPublisher="Bulletin of the biological Society of Washington" pageId="36" pageNumber="37" pagination="15 - 65" refId="B3" refString="Alderslade, P, 2001. Six new genera and six new species of soft corals, and some proposed familial and subfamilial changes within the Alcyonacea (Coelenterata: Octocorallia). Bulletin of the biological Society of Washington 10: 15 - 65" title="Six new genera and six new species of soft corals, and some proposed familial and subfamilial changes within the Alcyonacea (Coelenterata: Octocorallia)." volume="10" year="2001">Alderslade (2001)</bibRefCitation>
to assign it to the genus
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</taxonomicName>
.
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.
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The current examination of the holotype (
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 11" captionStartId="F11" captionText="Figure 11. Scanning electron micrographs of polyp sclerites of Ovabunda faraunensis (Verseveldt &amp; Cohen, 1971) holotype (HUJ I. Co. 140). a Regular sclerites b Fused sclerite. Scale bar 10 µm." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/22446" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Fig. 11</figureCitation>
) along with the examination of the holotype by
<bibRefCitation author="Aharonovich, D" journalOrPublisher="Marine Biodiversity" pageId="36" pageNumber="37" pagination="173 - 177" publicationUrl="10.1007/s12526-011-0102-3" refId="B1" refString="Aharonovich, D, Benayahu, Y, 2011. Microstructure of octocoral sclerites for diagnosis of taxonomic features. Marine Biodiversity 42 (2): 173 - 177, 10.1007/s12526-011-0102-3" title="Microstructure of octocoral sclerites for diagnosis of taxonomic features." url="10.1007/s12526-011-0102-3" volume="42" year="2011">Aharonovich and Benayahu (2011)</bibRefCitation>
, further confirmed the previous assignment.
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<paragraph pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Similar species.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="19" pageNumber="20">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Ovabunda faraunensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is most similar to
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Reinicke" baseAuthorityYear="1995" class="Anthozoa" family="Xeniidae" genus="Ovabunda" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="arabica">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Ovabunda arabica</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Although they both have two rows of pinnules and both have non-pulsating polyps in living colonies, the number of pinnules in the outermost row ranges from 17-24 in
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Verseveldt &amp; Cohen" baseAuthorityYear="1971" class="Anthozoa" family="Xeniidae" genus="Ovabunda" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="faraunensis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Ovabunda faraunensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
compared to 24-29 in
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Ovabunda arabica</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
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<paragraph pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Distribution.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="19" pageNumber="20">
Red Sea: Gulf of Aqaba, Sudan (see
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).
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