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<emphasis id="B955DB457B0CFFB6FF56FDE6FEA5FDF8" box="[151,347,543,567]" italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">Acabaria biserialis</emphasis>
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, fig. 24 (
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<emphasis id="B955DB457B0CFFB6FF05FDA5FE78FDBB" box="[196,390,604,628]" italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">Acabaria biserialis</emphasis>
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, figs. 2223.
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<paragraph id="8B9E07577B0CFFB6FF56FD5AFC70FD72" blockId="26.[151,910,675,701]" box="[151,910,675,701]" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">Opinion: There is no evidence that this species occurs in the region.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B9E07577B0CFFB6FF56FD12FED7FCCA" blockId="26.[151,1436,747,845]" box="[151,297,747,773]" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">Justification:</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B955DB457B0CFFB6FF06FCF6FC75FCE6" box="[199,907,783,809]" italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">These Indian records seem to be either invalid or unconfirmable</emphasis>
:
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, pl. 6, fig. 1&amp;1c (SE coast);
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Fernando
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. 2017: 26
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, pl. 8, fig. 11c (SE coast).
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<emphasis id="B955DB457B0CFFB6FF06FC82FE64FC5A" box="[199,410,891,917]" italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">Literature analysis</emphasis>
: This species was originally named
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The accounts provided by
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and
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Fernando
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. (2017)
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are identical. Their specimen is quite robust, has massive clubs and ovoids in the coenenchyme and extremely large anthocodial sclerites, but
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illustrations of the
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show that the colony is finely branched with very pronounced nodes, and that the polyp and coenenchymal sclerites are small. The accounts by
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and
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Fernando
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. (2017)
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provide illustrations but lack any description, referring instead to
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. However, they cite
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in their synonymy when that author stated that
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of Ofwegen is not synonymous. Kumar
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. (2017: PY-B, 2019, 2019a) record that the species occurs in the region and give references.
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