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, coll. F. Benzoni &amp; M. Pichon,
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:
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COE332 Al Mukallah (
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;
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),
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coll. M. Pichon &amp; F. Benzoni,
<date id="FFEB107BFFBC9B13FF04C181B234FF11" box="[153,283,188,212]" pageId="3" pageNumber="59" value="2007-03-17">17/03/2007</date>
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;
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),
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, coll. F. Benzoni,
<date id="FFEB107BFFBC9B13FF04C1E2B3D3FF32" box="[153,252,223,247]" pageId="3" pageNumber="59" value="2005-09-08">08/09/05</date>
(GenBank accession number
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Other material:
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Red Sea
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UNIMIB KA022 Kamaran Island (
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;
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) F. Benzoni &amp; A. Caragnano,
<date id="FFEB107BFFBC9B13FEFEC01AB2C9FEFA" box="[355,486,295,319]" pageId="3" pageNumber="59" value="2009-09-28">28/09/2009</date>
; KA170 Al Badi' (15°29.573;
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)
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<collectingCountry id="F342762BFFBC9B13FB1DC01AB7CBFE85" box="[1152,1252,295,320]" name="Djibouti" pageId="3" pageNumber="59">Djibouti</collectingCountry>
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TO-DJ030, Ras Ali, Gulf of Tadjoura, (
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;
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, coll. F. Benzoni,
<date id="FFEB107BFFBC9B13FC77C071B742FEA1" box="[1002,1133,332,356]" pageId="3" pageNumber="59" value="2010-01-28">28/01/2010</date>
; TO-DJ079, Oblal, Gulf of Tadjoura, (
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;
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, coll. F. Benzoni,
<date id="FFEB107BFFBC9B13FCFFC052B0C9FE42" box="[866,998,367,391]" pageId="3" pageNumber="59" value="2010-01-29">29/01/2010</date>
; TO-DJ134, Musha, Gulf of Tadjoura, (
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, coll. F. Benzoni,
<date id="FFEB107BFFBC9B13FC97C0A9B0A2FE69" box="[778,909,404,428]" pageId="3" pageNumber="59" value="2010-01-31">31/01/2010</date>
;
<emphasis id="B921EAA9FFBC9B13FC07C0A9B7A0FE69" bold="true" box="[922,1167,403,428]" pageId="3" pageNumber="59">Ye m e n G u lf o f Ade n</emphasis>
UNIMIB Y358 Balhaf (
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) coll. F. Benzoni,
<date id="FFEB107BFFBC9B13FD26C08AB030FE0A" box="[699,799,439,463]" pageId="3" pageNumber="59" value="2005-09-08">08/09/05</date>
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) coll. F. Benzoni,
<date id="FFEB107BFFBC9B13FD26C0E1B00FFE31" box="[699,800,476,500]" pageId="3" pageNumber="59" value="2006-04-08">08/04/06</date>
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); Y694 Balhaf (
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;
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) coll. F. Benzoni,
<date id="FFEB107BFFBC9B13FD2AC0C2B031FDD2" box="[695,798,511,535]" pageId="3" pageNumber="59" value="2008-03-10">10/03/08</date>
; BAL015 Balhaf (
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;
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) coll. M. Pichon &amp; F. Benzoni,
<date id="FFEB107BFFBC9B13FE0AC319B134FDF9" box="[407,539,548,572]" pageId="3" pageNumber="59" value="2007-03-04">04/03/2007</date>
; BAL042 (
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;
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) coll. F. Benzoni
<date id="FFEB107BFFBC9B13FB37C319B601FDF9" box="[1194,1326,548,572]" pageId="3" pageNumber="59" value="2007-05-20">20/05/2007</date>
; BAL044 (
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;
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) coll. M. Pichon &amp; F. Benzoni
<date id="FFEB107BFFBC9B13FC16C37AB722FD9A" box="[907,1037,583,607]" pageId="3" pageNumber="59" value="2007-09-16">16/09/2007</date>
; BAL069 Balhaf (
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;
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) coll. M. Pichon &amp; F. Benzoni,
<date id="FFEB107BFFBC9B13FD00C351B00FFD41" box="[669,800,620,644]" pageId="3" pageNumber="59" value="2007-09-20">20/09/2007</date>
; BAL108 Balhaf (
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;
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) coll. M. Pichon &amp; F. Benzoni,
<date id="FFEB107BFFBC9B13FE09C3B2B138FD62" box="[404,535,655,679]" pageId="3" pageNumber="59" value="2007-09-20">20/09/2007</date>
; BAL175b Balhaf (
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;
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) coll. M. Pichon &amp; F. Benzoni,
<date id="FFEB107BFFBC9B13FF04C389B234FD09" box="[153,283,692,716]" pageId="3" pageNumber="59" value="2007-09-22">22/09/2007</date>
; BAL250 Balhaf (
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;
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) coll. M. Pichon &amp; F. Benzoni,
<date id="FFEB107BFFBC9B13FB0EC389B639FD09" box="[1171,1302,692,716]" pageId="3" pageNumber="59" value="2007-09-23">23/09/2007</date>
; MU027 Al Mukallah (
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;
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) coll. M. Pichon, F. Benzoni &amp; C. Riva,
<date id="FFEB107BFFBC9B13FBBEC3EAB789FD2A" box="[1059,1190,727,751]" pageId="3" pageNumber="59" value="2007-03-17">17/03/2007</date>
; MU091 Al Mukallah (14°
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; 49°
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) coll. M. Pichon &amp; F. Benzoni,
<date id="FFEB107BFFBC9B13FCF1C3C1B0C0FCD1" box="[876,1007,764,788]" pageId="3" pageNumber="59" value="2007-03-17">17/03/2007</date>
; BA092 Sikha Island (13°
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; 48°
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)
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, coll. F. Benzoni &amp; S. Montano,
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(GenBank accession number
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Island
</emphasis>
UNIMIB SO057 Araher (
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;
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),
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, coll. F. Benzoni &amp; A. Caragnano,
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; SO114 Ras Qadamah (
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;
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)
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, coll. F. Benzoni &amp; A. Caragnano
<date id="FFEB107BFFBC9B13FA88C25AB6B7FCBA" box="[1301,1432,871,895]" pageId="3" pageNumber="59" value="2010-03-17">17/03/2010</date>
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(housed at EPA
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; C325S, ST-738 Medina,
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.
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Skeletal characteristics of the
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The
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) is part of a large colony (
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a). The fragment is
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long,
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wide, and
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thick. It is characterized by an encrusting base from which three taller digitations and one shorter digitiform non-anastomosing projections develop. Digitations tips are rounded (
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AC). Corallite density over the corallum surface is 5066 corallites/cm2 (
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CD). Corallites are flush with the coenosteum, although they tend be slightly sunken at the base of the digitations. They are separated by coarsely ornamented coenosteum and can be locally arranged in short series 3 to 6 corallites long (
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D). Collines, or ridges, are not present. Calice diameter ranges from
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. A columella is absent. The typical septa arrangement of the genus
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is observed with 12 septa arranged in four lateral pairs, one dorsal septum and three ventral septa (
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E;
<figureCitation id="136E2A3EFFBC9B13FD8DC5EFB17CFB2F" box="[528,595,1234,1258]" captionStart="FIGURE 2" captionStartId="5.[151,250,1059,1082]" captionTargetBox="[151,1435,193,1037]" captionTargetId="figure@5.[151,1436,193,1038]" captionTargetPageId="5" captionText="FIGURE 2 SEM images of Porites fontanesii sp. nov. (A) Holotype (MNHN-IK. 2009 - 834) corallite arrangement; The typical septal plan with a fused vetral triplet, a short dorsal septum, and five pali in a corallite of specimen UNIMIB MU 027 (B), and in the holotype C); (D) Corallite arrangement at the base of specimen UNIMIB BAL 151 (Fig. 4 E F); (E) A corallite in the same specimen with a typically thickened inner cycle of synapticulae connecting the proximal end of the septa resembling a hollow columella; (F) Detail of another corallite with a very thickened inner cycle of synapticulae. Larger arrows indicate the dorsal septum, smaller arrows the synapticulae connecting the dorsal septum to the lateral pairs." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/282165/files/figure.png" pageId="3" pageNumber="59">Fig. 2</figureCitation>
AB). The dorsal septum is shorter than other septa (larger arrows in
<figureCitation id="136E2A3EFFBC9B13FAEDC5EFB387FACA" captionStart="FIGURE 2" captionStartId="5.[151,250,1059,1082]" captionTargetBox="[151,1435,193,1037]" captionTargetId="figure@5.[151,1436,193,1038]" captionTargetPageId="5" captionText="FIGURE 2 SEM images of Porites fontanesii sp. nov. (A) Holotype (MNHN-IK. 2009 - 834) corallite arrangement; The typical septal plan with a fused vetral triplet, a short dorsal septum, and five pali in a corallite of specimen UNIMIB MU 027 (B), and in the holotype C); (D) Corallite arrangement at the base of specimen UNIMIB BAL 151 (Fig. 4 E F); (E) A corallite in the same specimen with a typically thickened inner cycle of synapticulae connecting the proximal end of the septa resembling a hollow columella; (F) Detail of another corallite with a very thickened inner cycle of synapticulae. Larger arrows indicate the dorsal septum, smaller arrows the synapticulae connecting the dorsal septum to the lateral pairs." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/282165/files/figure.png" pageId="3" pageNumber="59">Fig. 2</figureCitation>
B) and the synapticulae connecting it to one of the two lateral pairs, or both, can be more or less visible from the top (smaller arrows in
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B). The ventral triplet is fused (
<figureCitation id="136E2A3EFFBC9B13FCF9C427B082FAF7" box="[868,941,1306,1330]" captionStart="FIGURE 2" captionStartId="5.[151,250,1059,1082]" captionTargetBox="[151,1435,193,1037]" captionTargetId="figure@5.[151,1436,193,1038]" captionTargetPageId="5" captionText="FIGURE 2 SEM images of Porites fontanesii sp. nov. (A) Holotype (MNHN-IK. 2009 - 834) corallite arrangement; The typical septal plan with a fused vetral triplet, a short dorsal septum, and five pali in a corallite of specimen UNIMIB MU 027 (B), and in the holotype C); (D) Corallite arrangement at the base of specimen UNIMIB BAL 151 (Fig. 4 E F); (E) A corallite in the same specimen with a typically thickened inner cycle of synapticulae connecting the proximal end of the septa resembling a hollow columella; (F) Detail of another corallite with a very thickened inner cycle of synapticulae. Larger arrows indicate the dorsal septum, smaller arrows the synapticulae connecting the dorsal septum to the lateral pairs." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/282165/files/figure.png" pageId="3" pageNumber="59">Fig. 2</figureCitation>
B). Five large pali are normally present in corallites, four in front of the four lateral pairs of septa, and one in front of the ventral triplet (
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B). No palus is found in front of the short dorsal septum. Upper septal margins carry 1 finely ornamented denticle (
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). The innermost circle of synapticulae connecting the pali is visible and can be thin (
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AC) or thick (
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DF). In some corallites it can be so thick to resemble a hollow columellar structure (
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EF). In these corallites an irregular fusion of the ventral triplet can be observed (
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F), and two smaller pali or no palus at all can be found in front of it.
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<emphasis id="B921EAA9FFBC9B13FF58C72BB265F9EA" bold="true" box="[197,330,1558,1583]" pageId="3" pageNumber="59">Variability.</emphasis>
The study of the
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series and of the other collected specimens showed that although a digitate colony developing from an encrusting base is typical of
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, a certain degree of variability of the digitations upper ends diameter and shape is observed. These can be circular to oval in section (
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) with thickness ranging from
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. In larger colonies digitations tend to fan out and occasionally branch (
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AD,
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CG). Corallite organization over the colony surface is the same as the
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material throughout the whole collection. However, although corallites are generally flush with the coenosteum, in certain specimens they can be more sunken in certain parts of the corallum, typically towards the base of the digitations. At the corallite level, calice diameter, septal plan, and number of pali and denticles are consistent with the
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series. In some specimens the denticles can be more visible (
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J) than in others (
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D). When this happens, the small corallites are more easily visible to the naked eye and attain a flower-like appearance (
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J). The character showing the highest within and between specimens variability is the thickness of the innermost cycle of synapticulae (
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). When the synapticulae connecting proximal ends of the septa are thicker the species typical pattern of septal fusion can be less easily visible (
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DF).
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<emphasis id="B921EAA9FFBB9B14FF0AC5ECB220FB22" bold="true" box="[151,271,1233,1256]" pageId="4" pageNumber="60">FIGURE 1</emphasis>
Holotype of
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(MNHN-IK.2009-834) (A)
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image of the whole colony; (B) The holotype; (C) Detail of a digitation of the holotype typical of the species; (D) Close up of C showing smooth colony surface, regular corallite arrangement and coenosteum; (E) Detail of D showing the corallite septal plan.
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<emphasis id="B921EAA9FFBB9B14FF58C456B186FA41" bold="true" box="[197,681,1387,1412]" pageId="4" pageNumber="60">Field characteristics and identification.</emphasis>
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.
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forms colonies ranging from a few centimeters to
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in diameter and is found between 5 and
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depth. The corallum base is usually encrusting and from it digitations of variable thickness and height develop (
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AD). In larger colonies branching can be observed. Digitations and branches tend to fan out (
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AD). Polyps are usually extended during the day (
<figureCitation id="136E2A3EFFBB9B14FAF2C4EAB389F9D6" captionStart="FIGURE 3" captionStartId="6.[151,250,1867,1890]" captionTargetBox="[176,1411,195,1822]" captionTargetId="figure@6.[176,1413,195,1844]" captionTargetPageId="6" captionText="FIGURE 3 Porites fontanesii sp. nov. in situ (A) A large branching colony at Balhaf, Yemen (depth 5 m); (B) Branching colony at Araher, Socotra Island (depth 15 m); (C) Colony at Tiqfash Island, Yemen (depth 3 m); (D) A beige colony with thick digitations at Musha Island, Djibouti (depth 4 m); (E) Detail of a digitation tip showing the smooth appearance of the colony surface once the polyps are retracted; (F) Close up of a colony at Tiqfash Island, Yemen, showing the polyps usually expanded during the day (depth 7 m); (G) Close-up of E showing living polyps with retracted tentacles." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/282166/files/figure.png" pageId="4" pageNumber="60">Fig. 3</figureCitation>
D, F). When these are retracted the smooth surface of the corallum (
<figureCitation id="136E2A3EFFBB9B14FC2BC4C6B0DCF9D6" box="[950,1011,1531,1555]" captionStart="FIGURE 3" captionStartId="6.[151,250,1867,1890]" captionTargetBox="[176,1411,195,1822]" captionTargetId="figure@6.[176,1413,195,1844]" captionTargetPageId="6" captionText="FIGURE 3 Porites fontanesii sp. nov. in situ (A) A large branching colony at Balhaf, Yemen (depth 5 m); (B) Branching colony at Araher, Socotra Island (depth 15 m); (C) Colony at Tiqfash Island, Yemen (depth 3 m); (D) A beige colony with thick digitations at Musha Island, Djibouti (depth 4 m); (E) Detail of a digitation tip showing the smooth appearance of the colony surface once the polyps are retracted; (F) Close up of a colony at Tiqfash Island, Yemen, showing the polyps usually expanded during the day (depth 7 m); (G) Close-up of E showing living polyps with retracted tentacles." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/282166/files/figure.png" pageId="4" pageNumber="60">Fig 3</figureCitation>
E) and the corallites separated by the coenosteum (
<figureCitation id="136E2A3EFFBB9B14FEB2C722B243F9F2" box="[303,364,1567,1591]" captionStart="FIGURE 3" captionStartId="6.[151,250,1867,1890]" captionTargetBox="[176,1411,195,1822]" captionTargetId="figure@6.[176,1413,195,1844]" captionTargetPageId="6" captionText="FIGURE 3 Porites fontanesii sp. nov. in situ (A) A large branching colony at Balhaf, Yemen (depth 5 m); (B) Branching colony at Araher, Socotra Island (depth 15 m); (C) Colony at Tiqfash Island, Yemen (depth 3 m); (D) A beige colony with thick digitations at Musha Island, Djibouti (depth 4 m); (E) Detail of a digitation tip showing the smooth appearance of the colony surface once the polyps are retracted; (F) Close up of a colony at Tiqfash Island, Yemen, showing the polyps usually expanded during the day (depth 7 m); (G) Close-up of E showing living polyps with retracted tentacles." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/282166/files/figure.png" pageId="4" pageNumber="60">Fig 3</figureCitation>
G) are visible. Colour ranges from grey or pale beige to light brown, and polyps are typically extended during the day. (
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CD).
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</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C34F6530FFBB9B14FF58C755B27AF966" pageId="4" pageNumber="60" type="etymology">
<paragraph id="8BEA36BBFFBB9B14FF58C755B27AF966" blockId="4.[153,1436,1387,2023]" pageId="4" pageNumber="60">
<emphasis id="B921EAA9FFBB9B14FF58C755B264F945" bold="true" box="[197,331,1640,1664]" pageId="4" pageNumber="60">Etymology.</emphasis>
This species is named after Prof. Marcello Fontanesi, Magnifico Rettore of the University of Milano-Bicocca.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C34F6530FFBB9B15FF58C792B1DCF81B" lastPageId="5" lastPageNumber="61" pageId="4" pageNumber="60" type="distribution">
<paragraph id="8BEA36BBFFBB9B14FF58C792B785F892" blockId="4.[153,1436,1387,2023]" pageId="4" pageNumber="60">
<emphasis id="B921EAA9FFBB9B14FF58C792B13EF90D" bold="true" box="[197,529,1711,1736]" pageId="4" pageNumber="60">Distribution and frequency.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B921EAA9FFBB9B14FD84C78DB18BF902" box="[537,676,1711,1735]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="60">P. fontanesii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicNameLabel id="A21257D2FFBB9B14FD31C78DB029F90D" box="[684,774,1712,1736]" pageId="4" pageNumber="60" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
has been recorded from the southern Red Sea, the Gulf of Tadjoura, the Gulf of Aden and the north-western Indian Ocean (
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). Southern Red Sea (
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) Kamaran Island, Kutama, Tiqfash, Uqban, Al Badi, Gulf of Tadjoura (
<collectingCountry id="F342762BFFBB9B14FCD2C7CAB09FF8CA" box="[847,944,1783,1807]" name="Djibouti" pageId="4" pageNumber="60">Djibouti</collectingCountry>
) Tadjoura, Obock, Musha Island, Northern Gulf of Aden (
<collectingCountry id="F342762BFFBB9B14FED8C626B2B8F8F6" box="[325,407,1819,1843]" name="Yemen" pageId="4" pageNumber="60">Yemen</collectingCountry>
) Aden, Balhaf, Bir Ali, Sikha Island, Burum, Al Mukallah, and from
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Island. No additional records from published illustrations or museum specimens have been found so far.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BEA36BBFFBB9B14FF58C659B619F822" blockId="4.[153,1436,1387,2023]" pageId="4" pageNumber="60">
<taxonomicName id="4C554D38FFBB9B14FF58C659B2A2F8BE" box="[197,397,1891,1915]" class="Anthozoa" family="Poritidae" genus="Porites" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scleractinia" pageId="4" pageNumber="60" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="fontanesii" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="B921EAA9FFBB9B14FF58C659B2A2F8BE" box="[197,397,1891,1915]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="60">Porites fontanesii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis id="B921EAA9FFBB9B14FE08C659B2DFF8B9" bold="true" box="[405,496,1892,1916]" pageId="4" pageNumber="60">
<taxonomicNameLabel id="A21257D2FFBB9B14FE08C659B2DFF8B9" box="[405,496,1892,1916]" pageId="4" pageNumber="60" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
was most frequently observed in the
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Red Sea islands (
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) where it was observed in 88% of the sampled sites (n = 16). It was also frequently observed along the Gulf of Aden coast of
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at Aden (60%, n = 5), Balhaf-Bir Ali (72%, n = 32) and Burum-Mukallah (67%, n = 18). Finally, the species was recorded at 20% and 11% of the sites in
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(n = 27) and
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(n = 15), respectively.
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<emphasis id="B921EAA9FFBA9B15FF0AC51EB222FBFD" bold="true" box="[151,269,1059,1082]" pageId="5" pageNumber="61">FIGURE 2</emphasis>
SEM images of
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<emphasis id="B921EAA9FFBA9B15FE2BC519B145FBFC" box="[438,618,1059,1081]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="61">Porites fontanesii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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</emphasis>
(A) Holotype (MNHN-IK.2009-834) corallite arrangement; The typical septal plan with a fused vetral triplet, a short dorsal septum, and five pali in a corallite of specimen UNIMIB MU027 (B), and in the holotype C); (D) Corallite arrangement at the base of specimen UNIMIB BAL151 (Fig. 4EF); (E) A corallite in the same specimen with a typically thickened inner cycle of synapticulae connecting the proximal end of the septa resembling a hollow columella; (F) Detail of another corallite with a very thickened inner cycle of synapticulae. Larger arrows indicate the dorsal septum, smaller arrows the synapticulae connecting the dorsal septum to the lateral pairs.
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<paragraph id="8BEA36BBFFBA9B15FF58C42AB27DFA7A" blockId="5.[153,1436,1303,2014]" pageId="5" pageNumber="61">
<emphasis id="B921EAA9FFBA9B15FF58C42AB2E4FAF5" bold="true" box="[197,459,1303,1328]" pageId="5" pageNumber="61">Phylogenetic analysis.</emphasis>
A total of 48 sequences were aligned and subjected to phylogenetic analysis. Overall, 572 positions (194 showing gaps) characterized the alignment after excluding two hypervariable and unaligneable regions (about 200 bp in total, situated at the beginning of ITS1 and at the end of ITS2). Among 85 variable sites, 69 were parsimony informative, while a GTR+G+I evolutionary models was selected as the most appropriate fro the data by AIC.
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<paragraph id="8BEA36BBFFBA9B15FF58C4F6B7A6F91A" blockId="5.[153,1436,1303,2014]" pageId="5" pageNumber="61">
The phylogenetic trees obtained according to the two different criteria showed concordant topologies (
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). Two main clades were found, one relating to Central American
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<emphasis id="B921EAA9FFBA9B15FCEAC4CDB0E7F9C2" box="[887,968,1520,1543]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="61">Porites</emphasis>
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species, (subclades X, XI and XII
<emphasis id="B921EAA9FFBA9B15FAC3C4CDB6B3F9C2" box="[1374,1436,1520,1543]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="61">sensu</emphasis>
Forsman
<emphasis id="B921EAA9FFBA9B15FE9FC729B214F9EE" box="[258,315,1555,1579]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="61">et al.</emphasis>
2009) and the other, a large, polytomic clade including both Atlantic and Pacific species (subclades IX, VIII, VII, VI, V, III, II, I
<emphasis id="B921EAA9FFBA9B15FE7BC705B10BF98A" box="[486,548,1592,1615]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="61">sensu</emphasis>
Forsman
<emphasis id="B921EAA9FFBA9B15FD0AC705B1FEF98A" box="[663,721,1591,1615]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="61">et al.</emphasis>
2009). In both cases, the internal relationships agreed with the phylogeny obtained by Forsman
<emphasis id="B921EAA9FFBA9B15FDBEC761B14DF9B6" box="[547,610,1627,1651]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="61">et al.</emphasis>
(2009) from which the sequences were taken. Specimens of
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<emphasis id="B921EAA9FFBA9B15FAD6C761B227F952" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="61">Porites fontanesii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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<emphasis id="B921EAA9FFBA9B15FE93C7BDB24EF95D" bold="true" box="[270,353,1664,1688]" pageId="5" pageNumber="61">sp. nov</emphasis>
.
</taxonomicNameLabel>
are found in a subclade basal to, and well divergent from, the second main clade. A mean value of 6.4% (±
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.d.) p-distance separates
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<emphasis id="B921EAA9FFBA9B15FD18C799B03CF97E" box="[645,787,1699,1723]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="61">P. fontanesii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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</emphasis>
from the other species of the genus. Internal divergence within
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<emphasis id="B921EAA9FFBA9B15FEF4C7F5B2DDF91A" box="[361,498,1735,1759]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="61">P. fontanesii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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</emphasis>
is one order of magnitude lower (0.5 % ±
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.d).
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<paragraph id="8BEA36BBFFBA9B15FF58C7D6B1DCF81B" blockId="5.[153,1436,1303,2014]" pageId="5" pageNumber="61">
Bayesian analysis performed with the software BEAST showed signals of convergence to the stationary distributions of parameters after 10.000.0 0 0 generations, since all ESS were largely&gt; 200 and parameters distribution were smooth. The analysis was repeated three times obtaining the same inferences. An evolutionary pattern congruent with a molecular clock was not rejected (ucld.stdev = 0.3, 95% HPD 0.00.6) and a mean rate of 2.4
<date id="FFEB107BFFBA9B15FF20C643B3DDF84C" box="[189,242,1915,1942]" pageId="5" pageNumber="61" value="2010-10-02">x10-2</date>
(95% HPD 1.3
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3.7
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) subst/site*My was estimated. On these basis, the main divergence between
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<emphasis id="B921EAA9FFBA9B15FF04C69EB208F87F" box="[153,295,1954,1978]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="61">P. fontanesii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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<emphasis id="B921EAA9FFBA9B15FEA9C69EB2BDF87E" bold="true" box="[308,402,1955,1979]" pageId="5" pageNumber="61">sp. nov.</emphasis>
</taxonomicNameLabel>
and the other polytomic clade is dated at 8.53 MYA (95% HPD 4.014.0 MYA), thus indicating a likely late Miocene origin of this species.
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