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<emphasis id="B97E0257CA4B5A44F0ECFD7CFEF36BFB" bold="true" box="[151,287,693,719]" italics="true" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">Trimuricea</emphasis>
aff.
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(
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)
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(
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,
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–33)
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<emphasis id="B97E0257CA4B5A44F0ECFCECFE4B6A08" box="[151,423,805,828]" italics="true" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">Echinomuricea reticulata</emphasis>
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: 206
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.
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<emphasis id="B97E0257CA4B5A44F0ECFCA2FEE16AB1" bold="true" box="[151,269,875,901]" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">Material:</emphasis>
<collectionCode id="ED1B4680CA4B5A44F16EFCA5FE816AB2" LSID="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34992" box="[277,365,876,902]" httpUri="http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34992" name="National Museum of Natural History, Naturalis" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">RMNH</collectionCode>
Coel. 38785, one specimen, Farur Island, coll. S.A. Mohtarami.
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<emphasis id="B97E0257CA4B5A44F0BDFC5BFEB26A98" bold="true" box="[198,350,914,940]" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">Description.</emphasis>
The colony is
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high and
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wide, branched in one plane, and many anastomoses form a network (
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). Calyces dome shaped, closely set to each other, and situated all around the branches.
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The polyps have a collaret and points made up of spindles which are up to
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long; triradiates are also present in the polyps (
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).
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The coenenchyme has thornscales (Fig. 33a), up to
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long, and spindles up to
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long (Fig. 33b); occasionally one of these spindles has a short spine. The smallest spindles have simple tubercles, the larger ones also complex tubercles.
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<emphasis id="B97E0257CA4B5A44F0BEFB0EFECD6DD5" bold="true" box="[197,289,1223,1249]" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">Colour.</emphasis>
Alive, the colony was reddish-purple, preserved it is brown. All sclerites are colourless.
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<emphasis id="B97E0257CA4B5A44F0BEFB27FEA96C3C" bold="true" box="[197,325,1262,1288]" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">Remarks.</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EF9BA3B4CA4B5A44F135FB27FDA66C3C" author="Gordon" box="[334,586,1262,1288]" pageId="42" pageNumber="50" refString="Gordon, I. (1926) Notes on a number of muriceid genera (Alcyonaria, Gorgonaceae), with special reference to spiculation. Proceedings of the scientific meetings of the Zoological Society of London 1926, 509 - 531." type="proceedings paper" year="1926">Gordon (1926: 515)</bibRefCitation>
recognized four species when she erected the genus
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<emphasis id="B97E0257CA4B5A44F492FB26FA986C3C" box="[1257,1396,1263,1288]" italics="true" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">Trimuricea</emphasis>
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:
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<emphasis id="B97E0257CA4B5A44F5FEFB26FED36C1A" italics="true" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">T. andamanensis</emphasis>
(
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)
</taxonomicName>
;
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<emphasis id="B97E0257CA4B5A44F2CAFADCFCD36C1A" box="[689,831,1301,1326]" italics="true" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">T. reticulata</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EF9BA3B4CA4B5A44F334FADCFB706C1B" author="Thomson" box="[847,1180,1301,1327]" pageId="42" pageNumber="52" refString="Thomson, J. A. &amp; Simpson J. J. (1909) An account of the alcyonarians collected by the Royal Indian Marine Survey Ship Investigator in the Indian Ocean; with a report on the species of Dendronephthya by W. D. Henderson. II. The alcyonarians of the littoral area. Calcutta, The Indian Museum, i - xviii + 1 - 319." type="book chapter" year="1909">Thomson &amp; Simpson, 1909</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
;
<taxonomicName id="4C0AA5C6CA4B5A44F4C9FADCFF376C62" authority="Gordon, 1926" authorityName="Gordon" authorityYear="1926" class="Anthozoa" family="Plexauridae" genus="Trimuricea" kingdom="Animalia" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="42" pageNumber="43" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="africana">
<emphasis id="B97E0257CA4B5A44F4C9FADCFADF6C1A" box="[1202,1331,1301,1326]" italics="true" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">T. africana</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EF9BA3B4CA4B5A44F540FADCFF376C62" author="Gordon" pageId="42" pageNumber="50" refString="Gordon, I. (1926) Notes on a number of muriceid genera (Alcyonaria, Gorgonaceae), with special reference to spiculation. Proceedings of the scientific meetings of the Zoological Society of London 1926, 509 - 531." type="proceedings paper" year="1926">Gordon, 1926</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
; and
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<emphasis id="B97E0257CA4B5A44F15BFAF5FE356C61" box="[288,473,1340,1365]" italics="true" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">T. merguiensis</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EF9BA3B4CA4B5A44F19EFAF5FD776C62" author="Gordon" box="[485,667,1340,1366]" pageId="42" pageNumber="50" refString="Gordon, I. (1926) Notes on a number of muriceid genera (Alcyonaria, Gorgonaceae), with special reference to spiculation. Proceedings of the scientific meetings of the Zoological Society of London 1926, 509 - 531." type="proceedings paper" year="1926">Gordon, 1926</bibRefCitation>
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. Later on
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added a fifth species,
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<emphasis id="B97E0257CA4B5A44F5FEFAF5FA786C61" box="[1413,1428,1340,1365]" italics="true" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">T</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B97E0257CA4B5A44F0ECFAAAFECC6C48" box="[151,288,1379,1404]" italics="true" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">caledonica</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Of these
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<emphasis id="B97E0257CA4B5A44F1DFFAAAFD9B6C48" box="[420,631,1379,1404]" italics="true" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">T. andamanensis</emphasis>
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should be considered a species of
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<emphasis id="B97E0257CA4B5A44F44AFAAAFB306C48" box="[1073,1244,1379,1404]" italics="true" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">Echinogorgia</emphasis>
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as Thomson &amp; Simpson’s picture of sclerites (Pl. 8
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) suggests.
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.
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differs from the present material in lacking anastomoses, and
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differs in having “clubbed spindles in the coenenchyme”, i.e. spindles which are wider at one end.
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has thornscales with much shorter spine (
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: Fig. 81;
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: 196).
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resembles the present material, the thornscales and spindles look similar, although it should be considered that the few drawings of sclerites presented in the literature (
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: Pl. 8
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;
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: Fig. 80) are all a bit schematic, and too few were given to obtain certainty about the amount of variation of these sclerites. Thomson &amp; Simpson reported their specimens had polyp spindles up to
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long, twice as long as those of the present Persian Gulf specimen. According to us a difference like that is big enough to establish a new species, however, Grasshoff depicted much smaller polyp sclerites with his re-examination of the
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long). Because of these uncertainties in the existing literature and pending a new re-examination of the
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material we decided to identify the present material as
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. aff.
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.
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