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<emphasis id="B955DB457B24FF9EFF56F97DFE51F953" box="[151,431,1668,1692]" italics="true" pageId="50" pageNumber="51">Placogorgia campanulifera</emphasis>
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, pl. 11, figs. 3, 3a; pl. 21, fig. 13 (Bay of Bima)
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<emphasis id="B955DB457B24FF9EFF56F95DFE51F974" box="[151,431,1699,1723]" italics="true" pageId="50" pageNumber="51">Discogorgia campanulifera</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B955DB457B24FF9EFF56F93BFE51F915" box="[151,431,1730,1754]" italics="true" pageId="50" pageNumber="51">Discogorgia campanulifera</emphasis>
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<paragraph id="8B9E07577B24FF9EFF56F8F1FC70F8ED" blockId="50.[151,910,1800,1827]" box="[151,910,1800,1827]" pageId="50" pageNumber="51">Opinion: There is no evidence that this species occurs in the region.</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B955DB457B24FF9EFF06F88DFC56F841" box="[199,936,1908,1934]" italics="true" pageId="50" pageNumber="51">These Indian records seem to be either invalid or unconfirmable</emphasis>
:
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Thomas
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. 1995: 136138
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, fig. 2c, 13 (NE coast).
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<emphasis id="B955DB457B24FF9EFF06F818FE64F835" box="[199,410,2016,2042]" italics="true" pageId="50" pageNumber="51">Literature analysis</emphasis>
: This species, first collected in
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, was originally named
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by Nutting, but it was later made the type species of the genus
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by
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. Although the species is unrecognisable from Nuttings poorly illustrated description,
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proposed to synonymise the genus
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with
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, which is how it appears in the WoRMS database.
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, however, does not occur in the Indo-West-Pacific, and the report by
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, who examined the
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,
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confirmed
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as a valid genus.
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Although the exact details of the characteristics of the taxon are unknown,
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Thomas
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(1995)
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assigned a specimen to the species. However, as their material was described as being dichotomously branched, unlike the
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, which was an irregular, lateral to pinnately branched fan, the identification would appear to be wrong.
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