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(
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a)
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520: Pl. I. figs. 5, 5a.
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1933.5.3.102,
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(=
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Description (colony shape after
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).
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The
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is
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high and
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wide, branched in one plane and without anastomoses (
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a). The calyces are dome shaped, closely set together, and situated all around the branches. They are low, usually under
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tall, with a diameter of up to
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. Each polyp point has two pairs of triradiates, and there is one row of flattened spindles in the collaret.
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The triradiates (
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a), along with curved, hockeystick or boot-shaped sclerites, or spindles (
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b) of the points are of similar length,
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long; the upper ray of the triradiates and the upper part of the spindles is slightly echinulate for over a length up to
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. Collaret spindles are
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long (
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c). These polyp sclerites have very few tubercles. Tentacles have a few curved, or boot-shaped scales up to
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long (
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d).
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The calyces have thornscales,
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long, with one or several smooth thorns up to
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long (
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ab).
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The coenenchyme has both simple and unilaterally spinose spindles,
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long, with simple or complex tubercles (
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e, 3c).
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<emphasis id="B953EA979914D96BD490986D8140341B" bold="true" box="[199,288,793,818]" pageId="4" pageNumber="5">Colour.</emphasis>
The preserved colony is white, the sclerites are colourless. There is no information about the colour of the live colony and polyps.
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<emphasis id="B953EA979914D96BD4909815815B3453" bold="true" box="[199,315,865,890]" pageId="4" pageNumber="5">Remarks.</emphasis>
This species is unique in the genus
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having a colony without anastomoses and many unilateral spinose spindles in the coenenchyme.
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<emphasis id="B953EA979914D96BD69798F283DC34B4" box="[704,956,902,925]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="5">Trimuricea omanensis</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B953EA979914D96BD79298F1846634B7" bold="true" box="[965,1030,901,926]" pageId="4" pageNumber="5">n. sp.</emphasis>
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, and
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<emphasis id="B953EA979914D96BD01E98F2853134B7" box="[1097,1361,901,926]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="5">Trimuricea tuberculosa</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B953EA979914D96BD10C98F185FC34B7" bold="true" box="[1371,1436,901,926]" pageId="4" pageNumber="5">n. sp.</emphasis>
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also have some spindles in the coenenchyme that superficially resemble unilateral spinose spindles but their colony has many anastomoses and these spindles are far shorter than those in
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<emphasis id="B953EA979914D96BD78498BA843134CF" box="[979,1105,974,998]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="5">T. africana</emphasis>
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. This species has by far the longest spindles reported for the genus, up to
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long.
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Gordon (1926: Pl. 1
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depicted only part of the
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, and her description of the polyp arrangement is incomplete as no mention at all is made about the presence of curved, hockeystick or boot-shaped sclerites in the points.
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