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Genus
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(following
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, after
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). “Calcareous deposits include tables, anchors, and rosettes of racquet-shaped plates and large fusiform rods in various combinations. Tail deposits tables or fusiform rods. Phosphatic deposits present or absent.”
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commented that there has been no complete revision of
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since Pawson put
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and eight other genera into the group between 1965 and 1977. Pawson himself noted the ongoing issues with successfully splitting the loosely defined group into multiple genera, and the acceptance between taxonomists to maintain it for practical purposes, until more is known (
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). There are 60 currently accepted species within
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(WoRMS 2024)
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, with eight of these previously known from
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:
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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and
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(
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)
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, though there are some discrepancies between this list and genera recorded in ALA and in the NMV catalogue. Additional work will be needed to resolve the distribution discrepancies for the genus within
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. In the IOT we found two lots of
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, both from stations over
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, which we have identified here as
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cf
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Tri-radiate tables with a three-pillared spire, along with the presence of phosphatic deposits and lack of plate/cup ossicles, puts specimens into
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rather than
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, while lack of three-armed anchor plates puts them in
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rather than
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(
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key). Although we have a reduced dataset, both COI and 16S sequence data indicates that
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is paraphyletic, which is concordant with previous findings (
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). Specific genetic placement of these IOT specimens is noted in Remarks for the species description below.
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