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(
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)
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<emphasis id="B953EA979905D97AD4C09E2D8168325B" bold="true" box="[151,264,1369,1394]" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">Material:</emphasis>
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Description (colony shape after
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).
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The
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wide, branched in one plane, and many anastomoses are present (
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a). The main stem, which has a diameter of
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, divides in two main branches shortly above the base. The branches have an average diameter of
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. The calyces are dome shaped, closely set to each other, and situated all around the branches.
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The points have triradiates (
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a), along with curved, hockeystick or boot-shaped sclerites or spindles (
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b),
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long. The upper ray of the triradiates and upper part of the spindles is slightly echinulate for up to
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. The collaret spindles are
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long (
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c); the middle part of the convex side is slightly more tuberculate than the concave side and both the ends. The polyp sclerites have strong tuberculation. A few tentacle scales are present, up to
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long (
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d).
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The calyces have thornscales,
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long, with an echinulate or tuberculate thorn up to
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long and complexly branched roots (
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a). Several of these thornscales have more than one thorn.
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The coenenchyme has spindles,
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long, with simple and complex tubercles (
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b). Several of these spindles have one blunt end, many are markedly robust.
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<emphasis id="B953EA979905D97AD4909C01814030A7" bold="true" box="[199,288,1909,1934]" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">Colour.</emphasis>
The preserved colony is grey. All sclerites are colourless. There is no information about the colour of the colony and polyp.
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<emphasis id="B953EA979905D97AD4909CC9815B30FF" bold="true" box="[199,315,1981,2006]" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">Remarks.</emphasis>
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a shows the
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, a label is attached to it marked 10a (removed in the
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a).
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b is a second specimen also stored under BMNH 1933.5.3.104. Gordon mentioned a single specimen in her publication, and therefore we assume the second specimen was added after her description and is not
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material. Gordon reported the
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to be 13 high and
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wide, probably due to subsequent sampling (i.e. BMNH 1925.11.24.23) the colony is now only
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wide.
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<paragraph id="8B9836859906D979D4909A5383EA3669" blockId="22.[151,1436,151,429]" box="[199,906,295,320]" pageId="22" pageNumber="23">Gordon did not describe the sclerite arrangement in the polyps.</paragraph>
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This species mostly resembles
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<emphasis id="B953EA979906D979D6799A398358364C" box="[558,824,332,357]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="23">Trimuricea tuberculosa</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B953EA979906D979D7149A3883E5364C" bold="true" box="[835,901,332,357]" pageId="22" pageNumber="23">n. sp.</emphasis>
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but differs in having a few spindles with one blunt end (also observed by Gordon), and the spindles with less dense tuberculation. In addition
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has some spindles with a few thorns, and irregular shaped sclerites are occasionally also present in the coenenchyme.
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