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<taxonomicName id="6CD66A1581D2A9AAB91ED19F6E45D80A" ID-CoL="3TQ64" authority="Verrill, 1868" authorityName="Verrill" authorityYear="1868" class="Anthozoa" family="Gorgoniidae" genus="Leptogorgia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Leptogorgia diffusa" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="0" pageNumber="67" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="diffusa">Leptogorgia diffusa (Verrill, 1868)</taxonomicName>
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Figures 16A, B, 17, 18
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<taxonomicName id="B818B65ED0958E9FC07569769768B52C" class="Anthozoa" family="Gorgoniidae" genus="Litigorgia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Litigorgia diffusa" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="0" pageNumber="67" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="diffusa">Litigorgia diffusa</taxonomicName>
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Verrill, 1868a; 1868b: 397-398.
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<taxonomicName id="18C29855D68C713567E6F24D4F5E4C3C" class="Anthozoa" family="Gorgoniidae" genus="Gorgonia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Gorgonia (Litigorgia) diffusa" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="0" pageNumber="67" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="diffusa" subGenus="Litigorgia">Gorgonia (Litigorgia) diffusa</taxonomicName>
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Verrill, 1868c: 415.
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<taxonomicName id="957FB604D8F12234F79E3B785DA1DA54" class="Anthozoa" family="Gorgoniidae" genus="Leptogorgia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Leptogorgia diffusa" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="0" pageNumber="67" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="diffusa">Leptogorgia diffusa</taxonomicName>
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Verrill, 1868a; 1868b: 397-398; pl V, fig. 6; pl VI, fig. 3; 1869b: 421. Nutting 1910d: 5.
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<bibRefCitation id="AE6E465D357B92F49438976D3560F14D" author="Bielschowsky, E" journalOrPublisher="Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung der Doktorwuerde der Hohen Philisophischen Facultaet der Schlesischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitaet zu Breslau, Buchdruckerei H Fleischmann, Breslau" pageId="0" pageNumber="67" title="Eine Revision der Familie Gorgoniidae." year="1918">Bielschowsky 1918</bibRefCitation>
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: 30;
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<bibRefCitation id="820452A7ACBB362B5C8B8A8217E8C1DF" author="Bielschowsky, E" journalOrPublisher="Zoologische Jahrbuecher, Supplement" pageId="0" pageNumber="67" pagination="63 - 234" title="Die Gorgonarien Westindien. 6. Die Familie Gorgoniidae, zugleich eine Revision." volume="16" year="1929">1929</bibRefCitation>
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: 112.
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<normalizedToken id="5E5B8926E62B5CA611F48A84B1F9B1F0" originalValue="Kükenthal">Kuekenthal</normalizedToken>
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1919
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: 771;
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<bibRefCitation id="D8B231D1FF2450ECBF83B5216590EFBF" author="Kuekenthal, W" journalOrPublisher="Walter de Gruyter & Company, Berlin" pageId="0" pageNumber="67" title="Gorgonaria. Das Tierreich, Vol. 47." year="1924">1924</bibRefCitation>
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: 329-330.
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<bibRefCitation id="AC03D52C096DB00032FCDC18FC846E8F" author="Hickson, SJ" journalOrPublisher="Videnskabelige Meddelelser Fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening" pageId="0" pageNumber="67" pagination="325 - 422" title="Papers from Dr Theodor Mortensen's Pacific Expedition 1914 - 16. XLVII. The Gorgonacea of Panama Bay together with a description of one species from the Galapagos Islands and one from Trinidad." volume="85" year="1928">Hickson 1928</bibRefCitation>
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: 413-414.
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<bibRefCitation id="BF0DED8A4A8ED78CB099249784E1F541" pageId="0" pageNumber="67">Stiasny 1935</bibRefCitation>
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: 29.
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<bibRefCitation id="620123D4F4CA5B98AB1018E28CC18375" author="Breedy, O" journalOrPublisher="Zootaxa" pageId="0" pageNumber="67" pagination="1 - 90" title="A revision of the genus Leptogorgia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857 (Coelenterata: Octocorallia: Gorgoniidae) in the eastern Pacific." url="https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1419.1.1" volume="1419" year="2007">
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Breedy and
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2007
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: 32-37.
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Nec
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<taxonomicName id="6F73C9D9FBAA7B025C2E3726451BD06F" class="Anthozoa" family="Gorgoniidae" genus="Leptogorgia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Leptogorgia diffusa" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="0" pageNumber="67" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="diffusa">Leptogorgia diffusa</taxonomicName>
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:
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<bibRefCitation id="A72B2B9018C9F9E97D3ABBABD38AFDB2" author="Stiasny, G" journalOrPublisher=") A," pageId="0" pageNumber="67" pagination="1 - 80" title="Alcyonides et gorgonides des collections du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle (II). Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (n. s." volume="3" year="1951">Stiasny 1951</bibRefCitation>
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: 71 [Guyane
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, Ile Royale] = (
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<taxonomicName id="1FD92866630B6827AB46F440480261E0" class="Anthozoa" family="Gorgoniidae" genus="Leptogorgia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Leptogorgia punicea" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="0" pageNumber="67" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="punicea">Leptogorgia punicea</taxonomicName>
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(Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857) [see
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<bibRefCitation id="CD8D94C3BD85E18460E7BB6CDFDF6852" pageId="0" pageNumber="67">Bayer 1961</bibRefCitation>
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]).
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<paragraph id="0BE8FB253B026093299808E6457536CE" pageId="0" pageNumber="67">
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<taxonomicName id="08BB398295D4C259E96C290D0D3A80A5" class="Anthozoa" family="Gorgoniidae" genus="Leptogorgia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Leptogorgia rubra" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="0" pageNumber="67" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="rubra">Leptogorgia rubra</taxonomicName>
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Bielschowsky, 1918: 29 [nomen nudum]; 1929: 92-94.
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<bibRefCitation id="F824EAF315D99E99249474AD7F535060" pageId="0" pageNumber="67">
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<normalizedToken id="C683B287B76969A059738CDEC2A64FFE" originalValue="Kükenthal">Kuekenthal</normalizedToken>
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1919
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: 911-912;
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<bibRefCitation id="62C8BAC976EA515D48BCEE82EBB0C58C" author="Kuekenthal, W" journalOrPublisher="Walter de Gruyter & Company, Berlin" pageId="0" pageNumber="67" title="Gorgonaria. Das Tierreich, Vol. 47." year="1924">1924</bibRefCitation>
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: 325.
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<paragraph id="44A76C499D5C0D4832CE1D7EA3F7EFFC" pageId="0" pageNumber="67">
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<taxonomicName id="E404495B8CE9AC9FD845F2D8D5F5E7DA" class="Anthozoa" family="Gorgoniidae" genus="Lophogorgia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Lophogorgia diffusa" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="0" pageNumber="67" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="diffusa">Lophogorgia diffusa</taxonomicName>
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:
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<bibRefCitation id="DB3353178C2EC7F6AF7CB55C6E9B3211" author="Prahl, H von" journalOrPublisher="Revista de Biologia Tropical" pageId="0" pageNumber="67" pagination="13 - 33" title="Octocorales (Octocorallia: Gorgoniidae y Plexauridae) de aguas someras del Pacifico colombiano." url="https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rbt/article/view/24352/0" volume="34" year="1986">Prahl et al. 1986</bibRefCitation>
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: 21.
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<paragraph id="C5E02F857D04543FE05983E2556491AE" pageId="0" pageNumber="67">Type locality.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="881B7B5BB704DF6F4C9A7B6B62B4458E" pageId="0" pageNumber="67">(Lectotype) Gulf of Panama, Panama, Pearl Islands; additionally (Paralectotypes) Gulf of Nicoya, Costa Rica.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="43C706C73DAB7217F74EB91BD16913BF" pageId="0" pageNumber="67">Type specimens.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="BDD0C90D246714C398D13B2AC9B2241B" pageId="0" pageNumber="67">
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Holotype, as
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Verrill, 1868); YPM 1659a [dry]. Lectotype
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Breedy and
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2007
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: YPM 1659 [dry]. Paralectotypes
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Breedy and
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2007
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: MCZ 7081 [dry]; YPM 5151 [wet].
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Breedy and
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(2007)
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believe it unlikely that YPM 1659a or 1659b are this species.
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<subSubSection id="32A20F026F209D37707373B3187E08B2" pageId="0" pageNumber="67" type="materials_examined">
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<paragraph id="B1C32ED581DAFD7D83133D7D49743392" pageId="0" pageNumber="67">Material examined.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="A15A620B1D98DE676470AC266E0A6678" pageId="0" pageNumber="67">4 lots (see Appendix 1: List of material examined). I was unable to examine the designated type specimens, but again, distinctive characters of the species made this unnecessary for ID of SBMNH specimens.</paragraph>
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<subSubSection id="30D27472084249DDDDAE6F4828787966" pageId="0" pageNumber="67" type="description">
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<paragraph id="E871DFF4F9E511C48339E431B8BFE2C1" pageId="0" pageNumber="67">Description.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="07F045F0A8CAD0841DF43FA7DB85BD69" pageId="0" pageNumber="67">
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Colony form (Figure 16A), appearance of branch and polyp placement (with overall effect of polyp placement that of serrated or zig-zag appearance; Figure 16B) and sclerites (Figures 17, 18
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) correspond with that given in description of the species in
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Breedy and
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(2007
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: 32-36), although in the SBMNH material examined, the anthocodial sclerites (Figure 18A) seem exceptionally long.
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Figure 16.
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, SBMNH 423090. A Colony measures 19-20 cm tall, 13.5 cm wide, at widest point B Close up, branch tips and placement of polyps on branch surface.
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Figure 17.
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, SBMNH 423090, light microscopy, 10
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, showing sclerites typical of genus and this species. Note pale yellow anthocodial sclerite, upper middle portion of field, amongst deep red to mauve-pink spindles. Longest sclerites may be part of the anthocodial armature.
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<paragraph id="185BEE481FCF11E36697072D6D51262C" pageId="0" pageNumber="67">
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Figure 18.
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<taxonomicName id="292A8B04466157CC2D33A952CD49DFCF" class="Anthozoa" family="Gorgoniidae" genus="Leptogorgia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Leptogorgia diffusa" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="0" pageNumber="67" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="diffusa">Leptogorgia diffusa</taxonomicName>
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, SBMNH 423090, SEM image. A Anthocodial sclerites; some were surprisingly and unexpectedly long
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<normalizedToken id="7BFC266EB64A2FAD0D38AD1B4CFA0000" originalValue="B–D">B-D</normalizedToken>
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Coenenchymal spindles. Images, for the most part, match those shown in
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<bibRefCitation id="BAE9D6AFBD8410A2F2C1C0EBAA890EC2" author="Breedy, O" journalOrPublisher="Zootaxa" pageId="0" pageNumber="67" pagination="1 - 90" title="A revision of the genus Leptogorgia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857 (Coelenterata: Octocorallia: Gorgoniidae) in the eastern Pacific." url="https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1419.1.1" volume="1419" year="2007">
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Breedy and
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2007
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</bibRefCitation>
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(figs 23, 24).
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</paragraph>
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</caption>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection id="127374D35B18EA5574996F8A4BFB370C" pageId="0" pageNumber="67" type="etymology">
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<paragraph id="0F9AAEB980C22D9AF07FF6376D41206B" pageId="0" pageNumber="67">Etymology.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="5B325134317784CC2826954C0CD938DA" pageId="0" pageNumber="67">Latin diffuses- means spreading, perhaps in reference to open shrub-like appearance that the branches create. No discussion of the species name is given by Verrill.</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection id="438B73EBBE7498F1C691F4D51F59E96C" pageId="0" pageNumber="67" type="distribution">
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<paragraph id="FF5B0AC5A53393D7E0A05173A323B903" pageId="0" pageNumber="67">Distribution.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="BE29EA790F1BA391EF9BDCDC4A60B8DB" pageId="0" pageNumber="67">From Panama and Costa Rica to southern California, at least.</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection id="EF425141EBFFA05FCECB8302D43C7C06" pageId="0" pageNumber="67" type="remarks">
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<paragraph id="682B44B4E05E35F7850E84DB6E621AC6" pageId="0" pageNumber="67">Remarks.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="539D55C280623132E37399D2B7C802CB" pageId="0" pageNumber="67">
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The lax, flattened branches, large polyps that produce zig-zag appearance, large (and in this case, long) anthocodial rods and the dull brick-red coloring are clear diagnostic features for this species. The species is listed as an accepted form in
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<bibRefCitation id="12039BD090A6D31D41DB88D73DB19557" author="Cordeiro, R" journalOrPublisher="American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, Maryland" pageId="0" pageNumber="67" url="http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=125302" year="2018 c">Cordeiro et al. (2018c)</bibRefCitation>
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.
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</paragraph>
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