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<emphasis id="B97E0257CA6A5A65F0ECFCD4FE746A03" bold="true" box="[151,408,797,823]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">Astrogorgia fruticosa</emphasis>
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(
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,
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)
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<emphasis id="B97E0257CA6A5A65F0ECFC44FEFA6A93" bold="true" box="[151,278,909,935]" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">Material:</emphasis>
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,
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Coel. 38768, N of Hengam Island, washed ashore, coll. M. Hosein Pour Khalajani, 2006.
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<emphasis id="B97E0257CA6A5A65F0BDFC13FEB36AC0" bold="true" box="[198,351,986,1012]" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">Description.</emphasis>
The
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is a colony fragment with part of the holdfast still present. It has a bushy colony shape and anastomoses, the latter mostly situated in the lower part of the colony. The colony is
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high and about
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wide, the main stem is
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wide and branching starts at
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above the holdfast (
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). Polyps are situated all around the branches; calyces are about
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high.
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Polyps are retracted; the collaret has 67 rows of spindles and the points have many sclerites. These sclerites do not differ much from those of the calyx, and are up to
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long, with simple tubercles or spines (
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a). Tentacle sclerites are similar to those of the points but slightly shorter, more flattened and less tuberculate (
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b).
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The surface layer of the coenenchyme has spindles up to
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long; with simple or complex tubercles (
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cd). The interior of the coenenchyme has capstans and rods, up to
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long, with simple tubercles (
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e).
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<emphasis id="B97E0257CA6A5A65F0BEFA4AFECB6CA9" bold="true" box="[197,295,1411,1437]" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">Colour.</emphasis>
Colony red, tentacle sclerites yellow, point sclerites partly yellow partly reddish; all other sclerites are reddish.
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<emphasis id="B97E0257CA6A5A65F0BEFA19FEBE6CDE" bold="true" box="[197,338,1488,1514]" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">Etymology.</emphasis>
The Latin
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<taxonomicName id="4C0AA5C6CA6A5A65F199FA18FDA36CDF" box="[482,591,1489,1515]" class="Anthozoa" family="Plexauridae" genus="Astrogorgia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="11" pageNumber="12" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="fruticosa">fruticosa</taxonomicName>
”, bushy or full of bushes, refers to the colony form.
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<emphasis id="B97E0257CA6A5A65F0BEFA3EFEAD6F25" bold="true" box="[197,321,1527,1553]" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">Remarks.</emphasis>
Only three other species of
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<emphasis id="B97E0257CA6A5A65F2E2FA31FCC46F25" box="[665,808,1528,1553]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">Astrogorgia</emphasis>
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have been reported having a bushy colony form,
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<emphasis id="B97E0257CA6A5A65F5F9FA31FF186F0C" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">A. arborea</emphasis>
(Thompson &amp;
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)
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from
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,
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<emphasis id="B97E0257CA6A5A65F28CF9D6FC6A6F0C" box="[759,902,1567,1592]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">A. mengalia</emphasis>
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from
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and
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<emphasis id="B97E0257CA6A5A65F5F8F9D6FEE26F6A" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">A. balinensis</emphasis>
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from Bali.
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<emphasis id="B97E0257CA6A5A65F34CF98CFC596F6A" box="[823,949,1605,1630]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">A. arborea</emphasis>
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has spindles up to
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long and in
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<emphasis id="B97E0257CA6A5A65F5F8F98CFEE86FB1" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">A. mengalia</emphasis>
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they are up to
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long; both much longer than the
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of the present species. On the other hand
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has much shorter spindles, up to
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long. Moreover,
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has anastomoses, the other three bushy species do not.
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