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Verseveldt &amp; Cohen, 1971: 60, 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>
: 33, plate 20.
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Verseveldt &amp; Cohen" authorityYear="1971" class="Anthozoa" family="Xeniidae" genus="Xenia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="13" pageNumber="14" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="obscuronata">Xenia obscuronata</taxonomicName>
Verseveldt &amp; Cohen, 1971: 60, table 1, fig 10;
<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>
: 33, 35, plates 2, 4, 7, 21.
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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="13" pageNumber="14" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="biseriata">Ovabunda biseriata</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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;
<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>
: 5,
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HUJ I Co. 72, northern Red Sea, Gulf of Aqaba, Marsa Murach (
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,
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), 1-4 m, 15 September 1969, coll. Y. Cohen;
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holotype of
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HUJ I Co. 120, northern Red Sea, Gulf of Aqaba, Ras el Muqebla (
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,
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), 12 m, 16 August 1971, coll. Y. Cohen;
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holotype of
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SMF 43, Indonesia, Ternate island, 1894, coll.
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.
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.
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The holotype is 28 mm high, stalk is 15 mm long, 11 mm wide at its base and 10 mm wide at the uppermost part; it is attached to the skeleton of a stony coral.
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body reaches up to 8-10 mm, and the tentacles 6-7 mm, bearing pinnules up to 1 mm long and 0.24 mm wide, separated by less than a pinnule-width. Two rows of pinnules are aligned along each of the tentacles margins, with 13-15 pinnules in the outermost row. There are numerous sclerites, abundant in all parts of the colony except for the mid-line of the oral side of the tentacles, where they are scarce. The sclerites are
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-type (
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), measuring 0.013-0.029
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0.018-0.039 mm in diameter (n = 100 sclerites). Rarely, two sclerites are fused, reaching a maximum diameter of 0.048 mm and occasionally 0.060 mm. The paratypes are of similar size to the holotype, featuring tentacles with two rows of pinnules and 13-16 pinnules in the outermost row. The stalk of the smallest paratype is divided into two branches; the paratype tentacles bear two rows of pinnules with 10-12 pinnules in the outermost row. The sclerites of all paratype colonies are
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-type, ranging 0.018-0.025
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0.023-0.039 mm in diameter. The original description of the species indicated non-pulsating polyps in live colonies. The preserved colonies are yellowish-light beige in colour.
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="15">Figure 8.</emphasis>
Scanning electron micrographs of polyp sclerites of
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(Verseveldt &amp; Cohen, 1971) holotype (HUJ I Co. 72). Arrow indicates surface dents. Scale bar 10
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.
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<paragraph pageId="14" pageNumber="15">Remarks.</paragraph>
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In general the original description of the species corresponds to the current findings. SEM micrographs of the holotype sclerites (
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) indicate that they are indeed
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-type, and therefore further confirm the previous assignment to that genus (
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;
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). The number of rows of pinnules, the number of pinnules in the outermost row, and the dimensions of the holotype colony of
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(HUJ I Co. 120) correspond to the original description by
<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>
. The sclerites are oval spheroids,
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-type, ranging 0.012-0.026
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0.018-0.041 mm in diameter (
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 9" captionStartId="F9" captionText="Figure 9. Scanning electron micrographs of polyp sclerites of Ovabunda obscuronata (Verseveldt &amp; Cohen, 1971) holotype (HUJ I Co. 120). Scale bar 10 µm." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/22444" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">Fig. 9</figureCitation>
, n = 61 sclerites). Rarely, two sclerites are fused, reaching a maximal diameter of 0.060 mm. The original description indicated a maximum diameter of 0.045 mm for the stalk sclerites, 0.060 mm for those of the anthocodiae and &quot;irregular spicules&quot; in the tentacles (
<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>
: 60). The latter probably referred to fused sclerites, which were not identifiable under light microscopy. The original description of
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indicated non-pulsating polyps in live colonies, similar to
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. The ethanol-preserved holotype is light brown in colour.
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">Figure 9.</emphasis>
Scanning electron micrographs of polyp sclerites of
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(Verseveldt &amp; Cohen, 1971) holotype (HUJ I Co. 120). Scale bar 10
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.
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<paragraph pageId="15" pageNumber="16">
<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>
noted under the description of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">Xenia obscuronata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(p. 33): &quot;nec
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">Xenia ternatana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
;
<bibRefCitation author="Kuekenthal, W" journalOrPublisher="Expeditionen S. M. Schiff &quot; pola &quot; in das Rote Meer." pageId="37" pageNumber="38" pagination="1 - 33" refId="B23" refString="Kuekenthal, W, 1913. Alcyonaria des Roten Meeres. Expeditionen S. M. Schiff &quot;pola&quot; in das Rote Meer. 29: 1 - 33" title="Alcyonaria des Roten Meeres." volume="29" year="1913">
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1913
</bibRefCitation>
: 8 (in part)&quot;. The type of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">Xenia ternatana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
was examined during the present study and its features do not agree with those of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">Ovabunda obscuronata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">Xenia ternatana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
features platelets composed of dendritic rods, measuring up to 0.022 mm in maximal diameter. It should be noted that the description of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">Xenia ternatana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
by
<normalizedToken originalValue="Kükenthal">Kuekenthal</normalizedToken>
also does not correspond to the features of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">Ovabunda obscuronata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="16" pageNumber="17" type="conclusions">
<paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="17">
<pageBreakToken pageId="16" pageNumber="17" start="start">Conclusions</pageBreakToken>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="17">
Examination of the holotype of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Ovabunda biseriata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Ovabunda obscuronata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
revealed certain similarities, as already noted in 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>
): two rows of pinnules, with 12-15
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">vs.</emphasis>
14-16 pinnules, respectively, in the outermost row. The original description noted differences in the size of sclerites; 0.018-0.035 mm in
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Verseveldt &amp; Cohen" baseAuthorityYear="1971" class="Anthozoa" family="Xeniidae" genus="Ovabunda" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="16" pageNumber="17" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="biseriata">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Ovabunda biseriata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
vs. 0.045 mm in the stalk and anthocodiae and 0.060 mm in the tentacles of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Ovabunda obscuronata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. The current examination revealed a similar size range in the two species (0.013-0.029
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
0.018-0.039
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">vs.</emphasis>
0.012-0.026
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
0.018-0.041, respectively). Therefore, it is concluded that
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Ovabunda biseriata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Ovabunda obscuronata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are in fact synonyms, giving alphabetical priority to the former.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="16" pageNumber="17" type="similar species">
<paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Similar species.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="17">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Ovabunda biseriata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is most similar to
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Verseveldt &amp; Cohen" baseAuthorityYear="1971" class="Anthozoa" family="Xeniidae" genus="Ovabunda" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="16" pageNumber="17" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="impulsatilla">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Ovabunda impulsatilla</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Verseveldt &amp; Cohen" baseAuthorityYear="1971" class="Anthozoa" family="Xeniidae" genus="Ovabunda" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="16" pageNumber="17" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="faraunensis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Ovabunda faraunensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Although they all have two rows of pinnules and non-pulsating polyps in living colonies, the number of pinnules in the outermost row ranges from 13-16 in
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Verseveldt &amp; Cohen" baseAuthorityYear="1971" class="Anthozoa" family="Xeniidae" genus="Ovabunda" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="16" pageNumber="17" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="biseriata">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Ovabunda biseriata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
compared to 8-11 in
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Ovabunda impulsatilla</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and 17-24 in
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Ovabunda faraunensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="16" pageNumber="17" type="distribution">
<paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Distribution.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Red Sea: Gulf of Aqaba, Gulf of Suez, Sudan.</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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