UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO) - Ovabunda macrospiculata (Gohar, 1940)

WoRMS taxon details

Ovabunda macrospiculata (Gohar, 1940)

AphiaID

290553 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:290553)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Ovabunda Alderslade, 2001

Original name

Xenia macrospiculata Gohar, 1940

Synonymised names

Xenia macrospiculata Gohar, 1940 · unaccepted (original combination)

Environment

marine, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

(of Xenia macrospiculata Gohar, 1940) Gohar, H.A.F. (1940). Studies on the Xeniidae of the Red Sea: their ecology, physiology, taxonomy and phylogeny. Publications of the Marine Biological Station, Ghardaqa (Red Sea). 2: 25-118, plates 1-7.
page(s): 96-98 [details]

Taxonomic citation

McFadden, C.S.; Cordeiro, R.; Samimi-Namin, K.; Williams, G.; van Ofwegen, L. (2025). World List of Octocorallia. Ovabunda macrospiculata (Gohar, 1940). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=290553 on 2025-05-02

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-01-16 10:35:54Z

created

van der Land, Jacob

2010-09-17 06:17:46Z

checked

van Ofwegen, Leen

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

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Nomenclature

original description (of Xenia macrospiculata Gohar, 1940) Gohar, H.A.F. (1940). Studies on the Xeniidae of the Red Sea: their ecology, physiology, taxonomy and phylogeny. Publications of the Marine Biological Station, Ghardaqa (Red Sea). 2: 25-118, plates 1-7.
page(s): 96-98 [details]

basis of record van Ofwegen, L.P., S.D. Cairns & J. van der Land (eds). (2000-2007). as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms. (look up in IMIS) [details]

new combination reference Alderslade, P. (2001). Six new genera and six new species of soft coral, and some proposed familial and subfamilial changes within the Alcyonacea. Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington. 10:15-65.
page(s): 51 [details] Available for editors

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Taxonomy

redescription Halász, A.; McFadden, C.S.; Aharonovich, D.; Toonen, R.; Benayahu, Y. (2014). A revision of the octocoral genus Ovabunda Alderslade, 2001 (Anthozoa, Octocorallia, Xeniidae). Zookeys. 373: 1-41.
page(s): 29-32 [details]

Other

context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]

Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Nontype (of Xenia macrospiculata Gohar, 1940) RMNH 23521, geounit Israeli Exclusive Economic Zone [details]

Nontype (of Xenia macrospiculata Gohar, 1940) RMNH 23522, geounit Jordanian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]

Nontype (of Xenia macrospiculata Gohar, 1940) RMNH 23523, geounit Egyptian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]

Nontype (of Xenia macrospiculata Gohar, 1940) RMNH 23524, geounit Egyptian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]

Nontype (of Xenia macrospiculata Gohar, 1940) RMNH 23525, geounit Jordanian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]

Nontype (of Xenia macrospiculata Gohar, 1940) RMNH 23526, geounit Jordanian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]

Nontype (of Xenia macrospiculata Gohar, 1940) RMNH 23527, geounit Egyptian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]

Nontype (of Xenia macrospiculata Gohar, 1940) RMNH 23528, geounit Sudanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]

Nontype (of Xenia macrospiculata Gohar, 1940) RMNH 23529, geounit Sudanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]

Nontype (of Xenia macrospiculata Gohar, 1940) RMNH 23530, geounit Sudanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]

Nontype (of Xenia macrospiculata Gohar, 1940) RMNH 23531, geounit Sudanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]

Nontype (of Xenia macrospiculata Gohar, 1940) RMNH 23532, geounit Sudanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]

Nontype (of Xenia macrospiculata Gohar, 1940) RMNH 23533, geounit Sudanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]

Nontype (of Xenia macrospiculata Gohar, 1940) RMNH 23534 [details]

Nontype (of Xenia macrospiculata Gohar, 1940) RMNH 6702, geounit Madagascan Exclusive Economic Zone [details]

Nontype (of Xenia macrospiculata Gohar, 1940) RMNH 6849, geounit Egyptian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]

Nontype (of Xenia macrospiculata Gohar, 1940) RMNH Coel. 6702, geounit Madagascan Exclusive Economic Zone [details]

Definitions

To Barcode of Life (11 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Xenia macrospiculata Gohar, 1940)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Ovabunda macrospiculata)
To GenBank (101 nucleotides; 97 proteins) (from synonym Xenia macrospiculata Gohar, 1940)
To GenBank (101 nucleotides; 97 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (2 records)