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, figs. 67 (Red Sea);
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, pl. 2, fig. 22e (Cuddalore).
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<paragraph id="8B9E07577B00FFBAFF56FE16FC95FDC6" blockId="22.[151,875,495,522]" box="[151,875,495,522]" pageId="22" pageNumber="23">Opinion: There is evidence that this species occurs in the region.</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B955DB457B00FFBAFF06FDA2FC55FDBA" box="[199,939,603,629]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="23">These Indian records seem to be either invalid or unconfirmable</emphasis>
:
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Kumar
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. 2014a: 106
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, pl. 50, fig. AD (South Andaman);
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Fernando
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. 2017: 17
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, pl. 3, fig. AD (Cuddalore).
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:
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This species was erected by
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for a specimen from Sri Lankan waters, but the description, with no sclerite figures, is totally inadequate to characterise this species.
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stated that he had examined a fragment of the
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to confirm the species occurs in the
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and said that the description by
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is correct.
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In the account of the species in
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and
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Fernando
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. (2017)
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the text is identical, but the illustrations are different even though the material examined is the same. But, in the account of the species in
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Fernando
<emphasis id="B955DB457B00FFBAFEC9FC3DFEC4FC12" box="[264,314,963,989]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="23">et al</emphasis>
. (2017)
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and
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Kumar
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the text is different, but the illustrations are identical even though the material examined is different.
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The specimen figured by
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and
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Kumar
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with its secund branching and secondary dichotomy is quite different from the colony in their underwater photograph and also very different from the irregularly-pinnate/laterally-branched colony illustrated by Stiasny. Likewise, the figured spindles with their large warts, some in girdles, bear little resemblance to the densely warted, robust spindles and ovals figured by Stiasny and also by Grasshoff. However, the colony and the sclerites illustrated with the description by
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do look very much like
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Kumar
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lists the species and provides the colony figure from the 2014 and 2017 publications above.
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