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, Fig. 34
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, northern Red Sea,
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The
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is
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high; its stalk is
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long,
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wide at its base and
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wide at the uppermost part. The polyp body is up to
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long, and the tentacles are up to
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long, featuring four rows of pinnules on each side. The pinnules are relatively short and stout, up to
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long and
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wide,
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the outermost row with no gap between adjacent pinnules.
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Sclerites are ellipsoid platelets, measuring
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X
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in diameter (
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ad, n=27). Occasionally, a crest is present on the surface of the sclerite (
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). Rarely, a median waist can be seen (
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). They are composed of calcite rods arranged radially, and at the center of the sclerite they are randomly arranged (
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). Many of the sclerites are fractured (
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). The ethanol-preserved
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is light cream in color and polyps are almost white.
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The current findings correspond to the original description of
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(
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: four rows and 1524 pinnules
<emphasis id="2CA33115AC23900DFE75FA3E16C9FA4A" box="[440,470,1478,1501]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="214">vs.</emphasis>
four and occasionally five rows and 1620 pinnules, respectively). The sclerites were originally described as: &quot;spicules of general xeniid
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: round or oval corpuscle&quot; and the current measurements reveal that their size corresponds to the original description (
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X
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<emphasis id="2CA33115AC23900DFB49F9F613BCF9B2" box="[1156,1187,1550,1573]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="214">vs.</emphasis>
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the stalk and
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the tentacles, respectively).
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<emphasis id="2CA33115AC23900DFF0AF9AD169FF9F9" bold="true" box="[199,384,1621,1646]" pageId="13" pageNumber="214">Similar species.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="2CA33115AC23900DFE45F9AE152FF9F9" box="[392,560,1621,1646]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="214">Xenia flexibilis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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<emphasis id="2CA33115AC23900DFDF5F9AD1568F9F9" bold="true" box="[568,631,1621,1646]" pageId="13" pageNumber="214">n. sp.</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="2CA33115AC23900DFD62F9AE1421F9F9" box="[687,830,1621,1646]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="214">X. grasshoffi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
feature four rows of pinnules and a certain overlap in the number of pinnules in the outermost row (1432
<emphasis id="2CA33115AC23900DFCCCF9821400F906" box="[769,799,1658,1681]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="214">vs.</emphasis>
1524). However, the sclerites of
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<emphasis id="2CA33115AC23900DFB7FF982125BF905" box="[1202,1348,1657,1682]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="214">X. grasshoffi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
feature surface crests which are absent in
<taxonomicName id="D9D79684AC23900DFDD8F966158BF921" authorityName="Halász &amp; Mcfadden &amp; Toonen &amp; Benayahu" authorityYear="2019" box="[533,660,1693,1718]" class="Anthozoa" family="Xeniidae" genus="Xenia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="13" pageNumber="214" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="flexibilis">
<emphasis id="2CA33115AC23900DFDD8F966158BF921" box="[533,660,1693,1718]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="214">X. flexibilis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and thus they should be considered as separate species.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="2CA33115AC23900DFF0AF939167FF94D" bold="true" box="[199,352,1729,1754]" pageId="13" pageNumber="214">Distribution.</emphasis>
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.
</paragraph>
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</treatment>
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