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<emphasis id="B955DB457B4DFFF7FF56FDF7FE9CFDEA" box="[151,354,526,550]" italics="true" pageId="91" pageNumber="92">Heliania spinescens</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B955DB457B4DFFF7FF56FDB2FE9CFDAC" box="[151,354,587,611]" italics="true" pageId="91" pageNumber="92">Heliania spinescens</emphasis>
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, fig. 119 (
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<paragraph id="8B9E07577B4DFFF7FF56FD72FC70FD6A" blockId="91.[151,910,651,677]" box="[151,910,651,677]" pageId="91" pageNumber="92">Opinion: There is no evidence that this species occurs in the region.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="8B9E07577B4DFFF7FF56FD35FED7FD29" blockId="91.[151,1436,716,815]" box="[151,297,716,742]" pageId="91" pageNumber="92">Justification:</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B955DB457B4DFFF7FF06FD09FC5BFCC5" box="[199,933,752,778]" italics="true" pageId="91" pageNumber="92">These Indian records seem to be either invalid or unconfirmable</emphasis>
:
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, pl. 73, fig. 11d (SE coast);
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Fernando
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, pl. 119, fig. 11d (SE coast).
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<emphasis id="B955DB457B4DFFF7FF06FCA4FE63FCB9" box="[199,413,860,886]" italics="true" pageId="91" pageNumber="92">Literature analysis</emphasis>
: This species was established by Gray for a colony collected in the
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, possibly from shallow water. The
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and the much-damaged colony was figured. Later,
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described a specimen from
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with a good figure of the colony showing the typical subsecund branching. The descriptions of the Indian material by
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and
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Fernando
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are more-or-less identical, but unfortunately it is not possible to accurately compare the sclerites of the
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with those of the Indian material as the illustrations of the latter are exceedingly small and also unsharp. However, the colony figured has a very different growth form to that of the Central West Pacific material and it does seem that some of the characteristic sclerites illustrated for the
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may not be present in the Indian material, and some present there may not occur in the
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Grasshoff said that the question of whether
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could be a synonym of
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remains open, commenting that the original material was collected at
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compared to all records of
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<emphasis id="B955DB457B4DFFF7FF77FB10FEB8FACD" box="[182,326,1257,1282]" italics="true" pageId="91" pageNumber="92">H. spinecens</emphasis>
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being from less than
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.
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He also stated that an orange colony with yellow polyp tips referable to
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<emphasis id="B955DB457B4DFFF7FF74FAF4FEBBFAE9" box="[181,325,1293,1318]" italics="true" pageId="91" pageNumber="92">H. racemosa</emphasis>
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had been collected from Baa Atoll,
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, which must be that described by
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(see
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; 56 bottom).
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and
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Fernando
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. (2017)
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include
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treatment of that species as a synonym, even though it was not illustrated, but did not include the species in any of their papers.
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