taxonID	type	description	language	source
D725DAC2C7CDA71A7CDC9D9C93B5BFE3.taxon	materials_examined	Other material examined. RMNH Coel. 8890, Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea, 1.5 km N of Saudi Arabian border, 50 - 70 cm, 10 - 20 m from coast, 15 February 1972, coll. H. Schumacher, det. J. Verseveldt, one specimen and two microscope slides; RMNH Coel. 8891, Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea, 1.5 km N of Saudi Arabian border, 80 cm, 18 February 1972, coll. H. Schumacher, det. J. Verseveldt, one specimen and two microscope slides; RMNH Coel. 8892, Marsa el Muqeibla (= Makbala), Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea, from reef wall, 6 January 1968, coll. Hebrew University, Jerusalem - Smithsonian Red Sea project 63 / SLR 1147, det. J. Verseveldt, one specimen and 3 microscope slides; RMNH Coel. 8944, Marsa abu Zabad, Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea, 15 September 1967, coll. Hebrew University, Jerusalem - Smithsonian Red Sea project, det. J. Verseveldt, one specimen and five microscope slides; RMNH Coel. 8951, Marsa el Maqeilba, Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea, 6 January 1968, coll. Hebrew University, Jerusalem - Smithsonian Red Sea project, det. J. Verseveldt, one specimen and four microscope slides; ZMTAU Co 25287, Red Sea, Gulf of Aqaba, Nakeb Shahin, 25 m, coll. Y. Benayahu, 29 November 1981; ZMTAU Co 25309, Red Sea, southern tip of Sinai Peninsula, Sharm El Sheikh, 25 m, coll. Y. Benayahu, 30 November 1981; ZMTAU Co 25378, Red Sea, Gulf of Aqaba, Nakeb Shahin, 18 - 24 m, coll. Y. Benayahu, 5 November 1981; ZMTAU Co 25419, Red Sea, Gulf of Aqaba, Taba, 1 m, coll. Y. Benayahu, 30 July 1984; ZMTAU Co 26119, Red Sea, North, Tawila Island, 6 m, coll. Y. Benayahu, 24 September 1989; ZMTAU Co 31609, Red Sea, Eritrea, Dahlak Archipelago, Dahlak Island, channel in front of Lul hotel, coll. M. Schleyer, 12 February 1998; ZMTAU Co 31610, Red Sea, Eritrea Dahlak Archipelago, Intere Island, 15 ° 38.504 ' N, 39 ° 53.580 ' E, 12.5 m, coll. M. Schleyer, 3 May 1997; ZMTAU Co 32947, Red Sea, Eritrea, Dahlak Archipelago, between Nocra Island and Dahlak Island, southern entrance to the channel, 15 ° 41.60 ' N, 39 ° 56.40 ' E, 2 - 3 m, coll. Y. Benayahu, 15 February 2005; ZMTAU Co 32961, Red Sea, Eritrea, Dahlak Archipelago, Shumma Island, 15 ° 32.00 ' N, 40 ° 00.00 ' E, 8 - 12 m, coll. Y. Benayahu, 16 February 2005; ZMTAU Co 33104, Israel, Gulf of Aqaba, Eilat, Marine laboratory, reef off the Inter University Institute for Marine Sciences, 50 m, coll. S. Einbinder, 8 June 2004; ZMTAU Co 35301, Israel, Gulf of Aqaba, Eilat, reef off the Inter University Institute for Marine Sciences, 14 m, coll. Y. Benayahu, 19 January 2011; Sinularia compressa material: ZMTAU 34140, ZMTAU 34142, and ZMTAU 34150 used by McFadden et al. (2011).	en	van Ofwegen, Leen P., McFadden, Catherine S., Benayahu, Yehuda (2016): Sinulariapolydactyla (Ehrenberg, 1834) (Cnidaria, Octocorallia) re-examined, with the description of a new species. ZooKeys 581: 71-126, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.581.7455, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.581.7455
8B03ABB6AADAD36055E16D3FC6ECD7F6.taxon	materials_examined	Other material examined. RMNH Coel. 6648, W of harbour, Hellville, Nosy Be, Madagascar, 12 m, 26 July 1967, coll. A. G. Humes, 1205, det. J. Verseveldt, one specimen and six microscope slides; RMNH Coel. 6649, Ambariobe, near Nosy Be, Madagascar, 2 m, 22 August 1967, coll. A. G. Humes, 1307, det. J. Verseveldt, one specimen and four microscope slides; RMNH Coel. 6650, Banc de Cinq Metres, near Nosy Be, Madagascar, 20 m, 6 August 1967, coll. A. G. Humes, det. J. Verseveldt, one specimen and four microscope slides; RMNH Coel. 6651, Banc de Cinq Metres, near Nosy Be, Madagascar, 20 m, 6 August 1967, coll. A. G. Humes, det. J. Verseveldt, one specimen and three microscope slides; ZMTAU 34108, Eilat, Gulf of Aqaba, northern Red Sea, Israel, 29 ° 30.6 ' N, 34 ° 55.35 ' E, 2.4 - 5.5 m, 24 July 2007, coll. Y Benayahu; ZMTAU 36585, Eilat, Gulf of Aqaba, northern Red Sea, Israel, 1 - 2 m, June 2014, coll. E. Shoham and Y. Benayahu; ZMTAU 36607, Eilat, Gulf of Aqaba, northern Red Sea, Israel, 1 - 2 m, June 2014, coll. E. Shoham and Y. Benayahu.	en	van Ofwegen, Leen P., McFadden, Catherine S., Benayahu, Yehuda (2016): Sinulariapolydactyla (Ehrenberg, 1834) (Cnidaria, Octocorallia) re-examined, with the description of a new species. ZooKeys 581: 71-126, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.581.7455, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.581.7455
8B03ABB6AADAD36055E16D3FC6ECD7F6.taxon	description	Description. The holotype is 5.5 cm high and 3 cm wide (Figure 2 D) with a stalk 3 cm long. The primary lobes give off short knob-like lobules up to 5 mm long. The polyp openings are visible as small pits. Sclerites. Polyps without collaret, but with points featuring poorly developed clubs, up to 0.15 mm long (Figure 15 A). Tentacles with rods that sometimes are ramified, up to 0.08 mm long (Figure 15 B). The surface layer of the lobules has clubs with a central wart, the smallest are 0.08 mm long, most are around 0.10 mm, some reach a length of 0.25 mm (Figure 15 C). Furthermore, the surface layer of the lobules has spindles, up to 0.35 mm long, with simple tubercles (Figure 16 A). The sclerites of the surface layer of the base of the colony resemble those of the surface layer of the lobules, but clubs and spindles are shorter, up to 0.20 mm long, and the spindles and handles of the clubs are wider (Figure 17). A few sclerites intermediate between those of surface and interior are also present (Figure 18 C). The interior of the colony has unbranched spindles. In the lobules the spindles are up to 2.5 mm long (Figure 16 B), almost all having complex tubercles (Figure 16 C). In the base of the colony they are up to 2 mm long (Figure 18 A), many with complex tubercles (Figure 18 B). Colour. The alcohol-preserved specimen is brown.	en	van Ofwegen, Leen P., McFadden, Catherine S., Benayahu, Yehuda (2016): Sinulariapolydactyla (Ehrenberg, 1834) (Cnidaria, Octocorallia) re-examined, with the description of a new species. ZooKeys 581: 71-126, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.581.7455, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.581.7455
8B03ABB6AADAD36055E16D3FC6ECD7F6.taxon	etymology	Etymology. Named after the late Prof. Lev Fishelson, Tel Aviv University, pioneering and outstanding marine biologist, who investigated Red Sea coral reefs.	en	van Ofwegen, Leen P., McFadden, Catherine S., Benayahu, Yehuda (2016): Sinulariapolydactyla (Ehrenberg, 1834) (Cnidaria, Octocorallia) re-examined, with the description of a new species. ZooKeys 581: 71-126, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.581.7455, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.581.7455
