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(unknown locality);
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<paragraph id="8B9E07577B7BFFC1FF56FD9CFC24FDB0" blockId="109.[151,986,613,640]" box="[151,986,613,640]" pageId="109" pageNumber="110">Opinion: It is not possible to determine if this species occurs in the region.</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B955DB457B7BFFC1FF06FD28FC67FD24" box="[199,921,721,747]" italics="true" pageId="109" pageNumber="110">These Indian records seem to be either invalid or unconfirmable</emphasis>
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, fig. ai; pl. 43, fig. 14 (Andamans);
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, fig. 76. Fig. 77 ai (Andamans);
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, fig. 1v 13, 2a (Andaman Is.);
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, pl. 95, fig. 11e (Andaman and Nicobar Is.);
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Kumar
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. 2014a: 44
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, pl. 19, fig. AE (Andaman and Nicobar Is.);
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Fernando
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. 2017: 308
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, pl. 145, fig. AE (Andaman and Nicobar Is.).
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<emphasis id="B955DB457B7BFFC1FF06FC53FE60FC0C" box="[199,414,937,963]" italics="true" pageId="109" pageNumber="110">Literature analysis</emphasis>
:
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detailed many morphologically different forms of putative
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specimens from the
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and the Ryukyus across to
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that showed a huge range of sclerite forms, and Rowley
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. (2015) suggested there may have been two different species at her study sites in
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. The first record of the species occurring in the region is that of
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, but his material contained quite different sclerites in the tentacles and its identity was questioned by Bayer &amp; Stephani. Unfortunately, none of the other descriptions of Indian specimens assigned to this species mention the tentacle sclerites, and the surface sclerites the authors illustrate are different from those shown by Simpson and also by Bayer &amp; Stephani (1987).
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Kumar
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lists the species and present a very small underwater image of a colony that seems to be similar to those from the Indo-Pacific generally assigned to this species, but the colonies figured by Simpson,
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,
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Kumar
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and
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Fernando
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have a different and quite an unusual growth form. The descriptive texts given by
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and
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Fernando
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(2017)
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are identical, but the illustrations are different, there being only naked colony axes in the 2011 paper. The illustrations in the 2017 paper are the same as those in
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Kumar
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. (2014a)
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.
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and
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just list the species, and
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Kumar
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. (2015
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,
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) list the species and provide an image of part of the material from 2014 and 2017 papers mentioned above.
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Kumar
<emphasis id="B955DB457B7BFFC1FAA3FA5BFA6BFA74" box="[1378,1429,1441,1467]" italics="true" pageId="109" pageNumber="110">et al</emphasis>
. (2019b)
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lists the species and provide a colony image, while
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Kumar
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. (2018a)
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just lists the species.
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