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,
<figureCitation id="130C72E3FFAAA174FF09D9C8115FFCCF" box="[248,352,761,786]" captionStart-0="FIGURE 8" captionStart-1="FIGURE 9" captionStartId-0="21.[151,250,1693,1715]" captionStartId-1="22.[151,250,1670,1692]" captionTargetBox-0="[151,1435,193,1672]" captionTargetBox-1="[158,1405,193,1648]" captionTargetId-0="figure@21.[151,1435,193,1672]" captionTargetId-1="figure@22.[151,1436,193,1649]" captionTargetPageId-0="21" captionTargetPageId-1="22" captionText-0="FIGURE 8. Comaster. (A G) Comaster schlegelii— (A) live, exposed on sediment; (B) aboral surface, showing pentagonal centrodorsal lacking cirri; (C) live, exposed on reef; (D) paired comb teeth of equal shape, well separated and confluent with edge of pinnular, tapering to pinnule tip; (E) aboral surface, showing pentagonal centrodorsal with row of cirri; (F), live, tucked within coral structure; (G) aboral surface showing centrodorsal with ring of cirri. (H M) Comaster audax— (H I) live, exposed on reef, (J L) aboral surface showing centrodorsal with few cirri, yellow distally; (M) paired comb teeth of equal shape, well separated and confluent with edge of pinnular, tapering to pinnule tip. Madang, Papua New Guinea: A B. MNHN-IE- 2013 - 8147; C. MNHN-IE- 2013 - 8178; E. MNHN-IE- 2013 - 8071. I, L. not vouchered, SIO-BIC E 5998 (DNA subsample). Raja Ampat, Indonesia: D, F. SIO-BIC E 6260; G. SIO-BIC E 6261; H. not vouchered. K, M. SIO-BIC E 6258. Lizard Island, Australia: J. AM J 17567, holotype." captionText-1="FIGURE 9. Maximum likelihood tree of Comaster inferred from COI. Symbols and labels as in Figure 2. Location abbreviations — Madang, Great Barrier Reef, Australia (GBR); Papua New Guinea (PNG); Raja Ampat, Indonesia (Raja); Goodwyn Island, Western Australia (WA). New COI sequences are Genbank KR 010330 - KR 010347." httpUri-0="https://zenodo.org/record/580181/files/figure.png" httpUri-1="https://zenodo.org/record/580182/files/figure.png" pageId="20" pageNumber="171">Figs. 89</figureCitation>
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<emphasis id="B943B274FFAAA174FF66D870110DFC87" bold="true" box="[151,306,833,858]" pageId="20" pageNumber="171">Type species.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B943B274FFAAA174FF36D85411D7FCA3" bold="true" box="[199,488,869,894]" pageId="20" pageNumber="171">Other included taxa (2).</emphasis>
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;
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<emphasis id="B943B274FFAAA174FF36D89C117EFC1B" bold="true" box="[199,321,941,966]" pageId="20" pageNumber="171">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
Mouth excentric in fully developed individuals; up to 180 arms; centrodorsal small, discoidal or pentagonal; cirri absent or present; aboral surface with irregular plates between bases of adjacent rays; IBr2 united by synarthry; IIBr and beyond 2 or 4(3+4), usually with IIIBr of 2 ossicles exteriorly and 4(3+4) interiorly; first syzygy on undivided arms always 3+4; distal intersyzygial interval 4; distalmost pinnule comb at least P2 (usually P3P8), sometimes at intervals to P14; combs arising gradually and tapering to a sharp point distally; pinnules on brachitaxes and sometimes P1 with comb of single, nonconfluent teeth; combs on brachial pinnules of paired, confluent, erect, more or less equal-sized and well separated teeth; pairs sometimes joined to form a transverse bar (
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D, M). Paired comb teeth may be absent on juvenile specimens (1013 arms).
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<emphasis id="B943B274FFAAA174FF36DFFC115FFB3B" bold="true" box="[199,352,1229,1254]" pageId="20" pageNumber="171">Distribution.</emphasis>
Tropical Indo-western Pacific from northern
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. Depth range:
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2
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. All but a very few records are from depths shallower than
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Specimens identified as
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and
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are less than 1.6% divergent in uncorrected distances of COI. As a clade, specimens of
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were at least 4% divergent in uncorrected distances of COI from
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(
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). A more comprehensive molecular and morphological analysis of
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<emphasis id="B943B274FFAAA174FF36DEF81104FA3F" bold="true" box="[199,315,1481,1506]" pageId="20" pageNumber="171">Remarks.</emphasis>
Species of
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<emphasis id="B943B274FFAAA174FE37DEFB120CFA3C" box="[454,563,1482,1505]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="171">Comaster</emphasis>
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are most easily distinguished from other comatulids by the irregular plates between the bases of adjacent rays, which give the aboral surface a solid, paved appearance. Because specimens identifiable as
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<emphasis id="B943B274FFAAA174FECEDD231192F9F4" box="[319,429,1553,1577]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="171">C. nobilis</emphasis>
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or
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<emphasis id="B943B274FFAAA174FE27DD23125BF9F4" box="[470,612,1553,1577]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="171">C. schlegelii</emphasis>
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exhibit such minimal sequence divergence, we reinstate the former as a junior synonym of the latter, in agreement with AH
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,
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,
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,
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). Nevertheless, substantial morphological variation exists. Smaller
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<emphasis id="B943B274FFAAA174FDAFDD6B12D4F9AC" box="[606,747,1625,1649]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="171">C. schlegelii</emphasis>
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with numerous cirri are easily distinguished from larger cooccurring “
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<emphasis id="B943B274FFAAA174FEE9DD4F11B8F948" box="[280,391,1661,1685]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="171">C. nobilis</emphasis>
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” on the Great Barrier Reef. The distinction may be ontogenetic, although accompanied by distinct and consistent color pattern differences. Specimens attributed to “
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<emphasis id="B943B274FFAAA174FC1CDD931462F964" box="[1005,1117,1697,1721]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="171">C. nobilis</emphasis>
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” lose cirri with growth. At Raja Ampat,
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,
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<emphasis id="B943B274FFAAA174FE55DDF7120FF900" box="[420,560,1733,1757]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="171">C. schlegelii</emphasis>
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and “
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<emphasis id="B943B274FFAAA174FD83DDF712E1F900" box="[626,734,1733,1757]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="171">C. nobilis</emphasis>
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” with similar centrodorsal diameters have ~20 versus 1 (plus a few tiny buds) cirri, respectively, whereas a smaller “
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<emphasis id="B943B274FFAAA174FD1EDDDB1362F8DC" box="[751,861,1769,1793]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="171">C. nobilis</emphasis>
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” with the same color pattern as the large specimen has ~20 cirri. Specimens attributed to
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<emphasis id="B943B274FFAAA174FDA1DC3F12E1F8F8" box="[592,734,1805,1829]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="171">C. schlegelii</emphasis>
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from
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, where “
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<emphasis id="B943B274FFAAA174FBE1DC3F14BFF8F8" box="[1040,1152,1805,1829]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="171">C. nobilis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
” has not been collected, retain well-developed cirri, reach a larger size, and perch in the open instead of nestling in crevices as
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<emphasis id="B943B274FFAAA174FAE1DC0315A3F894" box="[1296,1436,1841,1865]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="171">C. schlegelii</emphasis>
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typically does elsewhere (
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).
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