Sinularia leptoclados (Ehrenberg 1834)

The holotype is 18 cm high and 13 cm wide (Fig. 10A). The primary lobes branch off once or twice, lobules finger-shaped, up to 1 cm wide and 3 cm long. The polyps have a collaret and eight points. Points with poorly developed clubs, up to 0.13 mm long (Fig. 11A), collaret with bent spindles. Tentacle sclerites not observed. The surface layer of the lobules has leptoclados-type clubs, the smallest are 0.05 mm long, most are around 0.10 mm, but some reach a length of 0.15 mm (Fig. 11B); in addition longer wart clubs are present, up to 0.20 mm long (Fig. 11C). Furthermore, the surface layer of the lobules has spindles, up to 0.45 mm long, with simple tubercles (Fig. 11D, 12A); the smaller ones with a distinct median waist. The interior of the colony has unbranched spindles. In the lobules they are up to 2.5 mm long (Fig. 12B), with simple or complex tubercles (Fig. 12C). In the base of the colony the spindles are also up to 2 mm long (Fig. 12D), with more complex tubercles (Fig. 12E). The sclerites of the surface layer of the base of the colony resemble those of the surface layer of the lobules but they are wider (Fig. 13).