Ovabunda benayahui (Reinicke 1995)

The holotype is 25 mm high; stalk is 10 mm long, 6 mm wide at colony-base, and 15 mm wide at the uppermost part. The polyp’s body is up to 4 mm long, and the tentacles up to 4 mm long, featuring a single row of 6–7 pinnules along each edge. The pinnules are short, up to 0.7 mm long and 0.4 mm wide with a 0.2–0.3 mm gap between adjacent pinnules. The sclerites are Ovabunda-type spheroids (Fig. 6a) and measure 0.019–0.035 × 0.027–0.041 mm in diameter (n = 22 sclerites). When two sclerites are fused they measure up to 0.043 mm in maximal diameter (Fig. 6b). The original description indicated non-pulsating polyps in live colonies. The ethanol-preserved colony is light brown-beige.

Red Sea: Gulf of Aqaba, Southern tip of Sinai Peninsula; Seychelles (see Janes 2008).