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, pl. 25, fig. 7 (Admiralty Islands).
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<emphasis id="B955DB457B3EFF84FF06FB42FE67FB1B" box="[199,409,1210,1236]" italics="true" pageId="40" pageNumber="41">Literature analysis</emphasis>
: This species was erected by
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for material collected off the Admiralty Islands near
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. The polyps were described as being retractile into very short calyces, so the colony they had before them was not a
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The coenenchymal sclerites are described as, “… thickly covered with large, rough surfaced, and sometimes branched warts. The warts on the outer side are always larger and generally provided with spine-like or branching outgrowths” and the calicular sclerites as, “… more club-shaped, curved or straight structures which are provided only with a few sharp spines; or they are structures provided with sharp, sometimes branching spines, and usually somewhat flattened. Their apices project frequently above the margin of the calyx, so that the latter appears to be surrounded by a crown of spines”. This places the species in the
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, but the description is not adequate to determine what genus it should be assigned to.
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Kumar
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. (2017: 52, PY-B) report the species from the
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citing
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listed by
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. The latter authors did not list
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described
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as a new species from the Andamans, which was probably an
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, and also
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where they just paraphrase the description given by
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and do not appear to have had any specimens.
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appears in the index to Thomson &amp; Simpsons publication but
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does not.
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