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). The previously recorded specimen is from the type locality
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.
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Although their colonies are similar and their spicules are the same size,
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:
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and
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<emphasis id="C98FB861FB29FFA9FE8AFA2766C2FA4E" box="[334,500,1510,1534]" italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="2435">P. pavimentum</emphasis>
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from Chesterfield Reef and
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appear not to be conspecific. The nominal species has 1315 pointed rays in optical
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Figure 5. (AC)
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(SAM E3253): (A) colony; (B) thorax; (C) gut loop. (DF)
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(SAM E3272): (D) colony (E) thorax, (F) abdomen. Scale bars: 1.0 mm (A);
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(B, C, E, F); 1.0 cm (D).
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<paragraph id="FB446473FB2EFFAEFFB9FF48654EFF70" blockId="28.[125,1172,136,704]" pageId="28" pageNumber="2436">transverse section, while those of the new species have only 911 conical, pointed or truncated rays in optical transverse section.</paragraph>
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and
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<emphasis id="C98FB861FB2EFFAEFD74FF0A6461FF51" box="[688,855,201,225]" italics="true" pageId="28" pageNumber="2436">P. pavimentum</emphasis>
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, both from Chesterfield Reef and
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, have similar stellate spicules with 1315 pointed rays in optical transverse section and some globular spicules, six coils of the vas deferens, a small retractor muscle, similar larvae with the larval trunk
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long, and a circle of 24 larval epidermal ampullae. However,
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was wrong in thinking them synonymous, for, despite their very similar appearance, the maximum diameter of spicules of
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:
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is only
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—half the size of the largest spicules in
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<emphasis id="C98FB861FB2EFFAEFBBFFE496632FE70" italics="true" pageId="28" pageNumber="2436">P. pavimentum</emphasis>
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. Further, the
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species,
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(Brewin, 1956)
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is distinguished from the tropical
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:
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by its larger spicules with rounded rays. It is probable that
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<emphasis id="C98FB861FB2EFFAEFDF5FE2865E6FDB0" box="[561,720,488,512]" italics="true" pageId="28" pageNumber="2436">P. lithostrotum</emphasis>
:
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is another undescribed species in this related group, with a maximum spicule diameter of
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and pointed spicule rays—different from the large spicules with rounded rays of the
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species.
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It appears that the scale line of
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applied to the larvae of
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<emphasis id="C98FB861FB2EFFAEFCB3FDA96320FD30" box="[887,1046,616,640]" italics="true" pageId="28" pageNumber="2436">P. lithostrotum</emphasis>
:
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is incorrect, the larval trunk being reported as
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long but measuring
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(
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,
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).
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