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<emphasis id="B955DB457B5AFFE0FF56F891FE7FF8B0" box="[151,385,1895,1919]" italics="true" pageId="76" pageNumber="77">Gorgonia australiensis</emphasis>
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(new comb.)
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var.
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<emphasis id="B955DB457B5AFFE0FF56F85DFE1FF873" box="[151,481,1956,1980]" italics="true" pageId="76" pageNumber="77">Pseudopterogorgia australiensis</emphasis>
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, figs. 7A, B, D; 8, 9, 10, 13.
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<paragraph id="8B9E07577B5BFFE1FF56FF6EFBF6FF7E" blockId="77.[151,1032,151,177]" box="[151,1032,151,177]" pageId="77" pageNumber="78">Opinion: There is not enough evidence to say this species occurs in the region.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="8B9E07577B5BFFE1FF56FF26FED7FF36" blockId="77.[151,1437,223,357]" box="[151,297,223,249]" pageId="77" pageNumber="78">Justification:</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B955DB457B5BFFE1FF06FEFAFC57FED2" box="[199,937,259,285]" italics="true" pageId="77" pageNumber="78">These Indian records seem to be either invalid or unconfirmable</emphasis>
:
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, fig. in, 13 (SW &amp; SE coast);
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, fig. 16&amp;17;
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, pl. 54, fig. 22e (SE coast);
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Fernando
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. 2017: 176177
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, pl. 80, fig. 11e (SE coast).
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<emphasis id="B955DB457B5BFFE1FF06FE6AFE62FE62" box="[199,412,403,429]" italics="true" pageId="77" pageNumber="78">Literature analysis</emphasis>
: This species was erected for material collected from the Torres Straits between
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and originally named
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placed it in the new genus
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.
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reported that 2 varieties occur in
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but the descriptions are unrecognisable. The descriptions given by
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and
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, under the original name, are not recognisable and the figured oval-shaped sclerites do not look like those from
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Also, in the latter paper the pinnate branches of the figured colony re-branched further, which is quite unlike
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. The descriptions of the Indian material by
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and
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Fernando
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. (2017)
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are identical, but without more detailed descriptions and larger images of the sclerites it is not possible to recognise what species they have. The authors, however, admitted the colony shape was quite different and the sclerites larger than those of this species.
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and
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Varghese
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(2007: 15
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, fig. 7) list the taxon under the old original name and the latter provides a colony image that is not a
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