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Koeda
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described the Red Sea representative of the
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complex as the new species
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from the south coast of
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, SMF 35489 and NHCY-P-10).
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claim
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to be the Indian Ocean sister species of
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of the Pacific. This cannot be true because the
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is the Batu Islands off the SW coast of Sumatra in the Indian Ocean. Of the eight records listed in their synonymy for
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, only a single one (
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) is valid as this species. They included the record of
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by
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as
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, but Heemstra &amp; Heemstra's material is now known to consist of two undescribed species of
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.
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Koeda
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Fig. 7a, an underwater photo of an aggregation of
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taken by Gerald R. Allen in
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, is also an undescribed species, not
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. Furthermore, the description of
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<emphasis id="B905EAF9FF92FFC7FA66FC62FEBF3FFC" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="387">P. tominagai</emphasis>
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is flawed, because many of the
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designated by
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have proven to be an undescribed species of
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from Southern Africa and
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, more than 15% different in COI sequence from
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of the Red Sea (15.6% K2P distance, 13.7% pairwise; Makinen &amp; Heemstra (pers. comm.); note Koeda
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would have been unaware of this).
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reported the posterior nostril of
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<emphasis id="B905EAF9FF92FFC7FA66FBEFFEB73846" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="387">P. tominaga</emphasis>
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compressed in contrast to the anterior, illustrated as their Fig. 8. However, we are unable to confirm this character. Of our five Red Sea specimens of this species, only one has the posterior nostril narrower than the anterior on both sides, none has the nostril completely closed as their Fig. 8 b. Of the
<specimenCount id="9D77FD62FF92FFC7FB80FB57FB4F388F" box="[1121,1273,1173,1198]" pageId="10" pageNumber="387" type="generic">22 specimens</specimenCount>
from the Gulf of Aden, only 5 have one nostril fully compressed on one side.
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