Ovabunda faraunensis (Verseveldt & Cohen 1971)

The holotype is 16 mm high; its stalk is 6-10 mm long, 4 mm wide at the base and 7 mm wide at its uppermost part. Polyp’s body is up to 2-4 mm long and the tentacles 3-5 mm long, featuring two rows of pinnules on each side with 17-24 pinnules in the outermost row. The sclerites are Ovabunda-type spheroids (Fig. 11a), measuring 0.013–0.028 × 0.019–0.033 mm in diameter (n = 46 sclerites). Occasionally, two sclerites are fused, reaching up to 0.044 mm in maximal diameter (Fig. 11b). Verseveldt and Cohen (1971) recorded non-pulsating polyps for this species. Colour of the ethanol-preserved holotype is beige.

Red Sea: Gulf of Aqaba, Sudan (see Reinicke 1997).