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NSMT-Co 1717, Kanmu Seamount,
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; NSMT-Co 1718, Kanmu Seamount,
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; NSMT-Co 1719, Kanmu Seamount,
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(
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).
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Fig. 9.
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cf.
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, NSMT-Co 1717. Composition of sclerites from each part sampled.
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Colony is in one plane with a few anastomoses. Branching in an asymmetrically dichotomous manner, at acute to right angles. Contracted autozooids making hemispherical mounds, distributed on only one side of the colony, about
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in height, sometimes forming clusters of over four or five on the twigs. Coenenchyme is about
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thick, with small but distinct warts. Almost orange in color, and yellowish on branchlets. Some commensal polychaete burrows with I or T-shaped openings are found on the surface. Axis is stout, no pits underneath autozooids, surface with longitudinally grooved, white in color. Tentacles contain small (about
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Description of the
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Colony form. The specimens include large branches (NSMT-Co 1718, NSMT-Co 1719, NSMT-Co 1722, NSMT-Co 1723,
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), and small fragments (NSMT-Co 1717, NSMT-Co 1720, NSMT-Co 1721, NSMT-Co 1724, NSMT-Co 1725, NSMT-Co 1726, NSMT-Co 1727,
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). Angles of branching are acute to right. Almost all colonies are wider than tall, curving backward (opposite the side with autozooids). The branchlets are thick and rounded. The thickest part is more than
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in diameter. The cross sections of main branches are rounded.
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Polyps. The autozooids are retracted into the coenenchyme, making hemispherical mounds. These mounds are distributed on only one side of the colony (
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) and sometimes make clusters of over four or five (
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,
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). They are denser on the branchlets than on the base of the colony (
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). They are
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in diameter (
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).
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Axis. The surface of the axis is faintly longitudinally grooved (
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intervals (
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). Removal of autozooid mounds in order to collect the sclerites from the tentacles and the autozooids confirmed that there are no rounded pits on the surface of the axis at the position of the autozooids.
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Coenenchyme. The coenenchyme is
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thick (
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) and the longitudinal axial grooves are not visible through it (
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). Some commensal polychaete burrows with I or T-shaped openings are found on the surface of the autozooids (
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)
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Color. The dry coenenchyme is red to orange and yellowish on branchlets (
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). The axis is white (
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).
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Fig. 10.
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Sclerites. The tentacles contain mainly small symmetric 8-radiates (ranging from 1369%;
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The autozooid mounds contain mainly symmetric 8-radiates (2147%;
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; Table 3).
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The branch tips contained mainly double-clubs with a rough surface (1966%;
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; Table 3).
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The coenenchyme on the base of the colony also contains mainly double-clubs with a rough surface (1167%;
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; Table 3). in the basal coenenchyme.
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<paragraph id="444736D1FFC7FF88FF2EFBADFE4BFB18" blockId="9.[156,771,198,2076]" pageId="9" pageNumber="306">The average size of the symmetric 8-radiates is similar from all three parts (autozooid mounds, branchlets and base) of the colonies (Table 3).</paragraph>
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Fig. 11.
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, NSMT-Co 1724. Composition of sclerites from each part sampled.
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<emphasis id="768CEAC3FFC7FF88FF2EFB0CFE9DFB38" bold="true" box="[181,281,1239,1263]" pageId="9" pageNumber="306">Remarks.</emphasis>
Some species belonging to genus
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, such as
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(
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,
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<emphasis id="768CEAC3FFC7FF88FDACFB22FD4BFAC7" box="[567,719,1272,1296]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="306">P. carusrubrum</emphasis>
(
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)
</taxonomicName>
,
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<emphasis id="768CEAC3FFC7FF88FEE2FAC2FE68FAE7" box="[377,492,1304,1328]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="306">P. clavatum</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
,
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<emphasis id="768CEAC3FFC7FF88FD75FAC2FF62FA86" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="306">P. konojoi</emphasis>
(Kishinouye, 1903)
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="83F84D52FFC7FF88FE26FAE1FD35FA86" authority="(Bayer, 1956)" baseAuthorityName="Bayer" baseAuthorityYear="1956" box="[445,689,1337,1361]" class="Anthozoa" family="Coralliidae" genus="Pleurocorallium" kingdom="Animalia" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="9" pageNumber="306" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="niveum">
<emphasis id="768CEAC3FFC7FF88FE26FAE1FDA4FA86" box="[445,544,1338,1361]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="306">P. niveum</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="20694B20FFC7FF88FDB5FAE2FD2DFA86" author="Bayer, F. M." box="[558,681,1337,1361]" pageId="9" pageNumber="306" pagination="67 - 95" refId="ref23669" refString="Bayer, F. M. 1956. Descriptions and redescriptions of the Hawaiian octocorals collected by the U. S. Fish Commission steamer &quot; Albatross &quot; (2. Gorgonacea: Scleraxonia). Pacific Science 10: 67 - 95." type="journal article" year="1956">Bayer, 1956</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
,
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<emphasis id="768CEAC3FFC7FF88FD27FAE1FF76FAA6" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="306">P. norfolkicum</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="83F84D52FFC7FF88FD9CFA81FD18FAA6" baseAuthorityName="Pasternak" baseAuthorityYear="1981" box="[519,668,1369,1393]" class="Anthozoa" family="Coralliidae" genus="Pleurocorallium" kingdom="Animalia" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="9" pageNumber="306" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="porcellanum">
<emphasis id="768CEAC3FFC7FF88FD9CFA81FD18FAA6" box="[519,668,1369,1393]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="306">P. porcellanum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="83F84D52FFC7FF88FD36FA81FE0BFA45" authority="(Kishinouye, 1903)" baseAuthorityName="Kishinouye" baseAuthorityYear="1903" class="Anthozoa" family="Coralliidae" genus="Pleurocorallium" kingdom="Animalia" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="9" pageNumber="306" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="pusillum">
<emphasis id="768CEAC3FFC7FF88FD36FA81FF47FA45" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="306">P. pusillum</emphasis>
(Kishinouye, 1903)
</taxonomicName>
,
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<emphasis id="768CEAC3FFC7FF88FE06FAA0FD95FA45" box="[413,529,1402,1426]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="306">P. occultum</emphasis>
(
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are also known to have autozooid-clusters as well as the present specimens. Of these nine species,
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<emphasis id="768CEAC3FFC7FF88FDE7FA67FD7DFA04" box="[636,761,1467,1491]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="306">P. borneense</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<emphasis id="768CEAC3FFC7FF88FF07FA07FE32FA24" box="[156,438,1499,1523]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="306">
<taxonomicName id="83F84D52FFC7FF88FF07FA07FEBDFA24" baseAuthorityName="Tu, Dai, and Jeng" baseAuthorityYear="2012" box="[156,313,1499,1523]" class="Anthozoa" family="Coralliidae" genus="Pleurocorallium" kingdom="Animalia" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="9" pageNumber="306" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="carusrubrum">P. carusrubrum</taxonomicName>
,
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</emphasis>
and
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<emphasis id="768CEAC3FFC7FF88FE75FA07FDE7FA24" box="[494,611,1499,1523]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="306">P. occultum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are having orange or reddish coenenchyme. However, the autozooids of
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<emphasis id="768CEAC3FFC7FF88FF07F9C6FE93F9E2" box="[156,279,1565,1589]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="306">P. borneense</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are distributed on all side of the branch (
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).
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<emphasis id="768CEAC3FFC7FF88FF78F9E6FD88F982" box="[227,524,1597,1621]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="306">Pleurocorallium carusrubrum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has smaller autozooids (about
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in diameter), axis in crimson red, and almost no 8-radiate sclerite in its coenenchyme (
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). And
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<emphasis id="768CEAC3FFC7FF88FF4AF944FEC0F960" box="[209,324,1695,1719]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="306">P. occultum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is an Atlantic species. Therefore, the characters of these three species dont fit the present
<specimenCount id="52FEFD58FFC7FF88FD3AF964FF56F920" pageId="9" pageNumber="306" type="generic">11 specimens</specimenCount>
in this study.
</paragraph>
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In contrast, many characters of the present specimens fit the features of the original description of
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<emphasis id="768CEAC3FFC7FF88FDDFF8F9FD35F8EE" box="[580,689,1825,1849]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="306">P. pusillum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
<bibRefCitation id="20694B20FFC7FF88FD24F8FAFEA6F88E" author="Kishinouye, K." pageId="9" pageNumber="306" pagination="372" refId="ref24133" refString="Kishinouye, K. 1903 c. [Kosango]. Dobutsugaku Zasshi 15: 372. [In Japanese]" type="journal article" year="1903">Kishinouye 1903c</bibRefCitation>
,
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,
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), such as color of coenenchyme (“orange color, gradually changing to pale yellow at the terminal branches”) and axis (“white and striated”), distribution of autozooid clusters (“making small groups here and there”), diameter of autozooids (“about
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in diameter”), presence of commensal polychaetes in burrows in the coenenchyme.
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reported “spicules of
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<emphasis id="768CEAC3FFC7FF88FCAFFB23FC2EFAC7" box="[820,938,1272,1296]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="306">C. pusillum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are the largest” in the Japanese
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he had ever studied at that time. Nonaka et al. (2012) measured the sizes of the sclerites of the
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specimens studied by Kishinouye preserved in the Smithsonian Institution, reporting that the largest sclerite was about
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long [cross shape of
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<emphasis id="768CEAC3FFC7FF88FB95FA40FBFFFA65" box="[1038,1147,1435,1458]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="306">P. gotoense</emphasis>
(
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)
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, or 6-radiate shape of
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<emphasis id="768CEAC3FFC7FF88FB0EFA67FB7CFA04" box="[1173,1272,1467,1491]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="306">P. konojoi</emphasis>
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]. In this study, large 8-radiate sclerites are about
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long.
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<emphasis id="768CEAC3FFC7FF88FA1CFA07FC0EF9C3" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="306">P. pusillum</emphasis>
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was first described by
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, but the original specimen collected from around Izu-Ohshima Island (depth unknown) has been lost, and no further specimens have been found since then. Therefore, the identifications are tentative, and specimens of this study are reported as
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<emphasis id="768CEAC3FFC7FF88FCD4F944FCD9F961" box="[847,861,1695,1718]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="306">P</emphasis>
. cf.
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</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
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The most abundant sclerites are symmetric 8-radiates and double-clubs in most of the specimens, such as NSMT-Co 1717 (
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). However, in
<specimenCount id="52FEFD58FFC7FF88FBC3F8DBFB5CF8CF" box="[1112,1240,1792,1816]" pageId="9" pageNumber="306" type="generic">4 specimens</specimenCount>
(NSMT-Co 1722, NSMT-Co 1723, NSMT-Co 1724 and NSMT-Co 1726) asymmetric 6-radiates are most abundant (
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). However, the size of autozooids (
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) and sclerites (Table 3) are very uniform, and the other characters are also similar. Therefore, we conclude that the differences in % composition of sclerites can be attributed to intraspecific variation.
</paragraph>
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The photograph of a specimen of
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in
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: figure 4) showed very similar colony shape cies in 1904 (e.g.
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). However, a onepage description in Japanese with this scientific name (Kisinouye 1903c) was found, and thus, the year of publication of the specific name
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is corrected in this paper.
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