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BD, 15CE).
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Photograph of
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<emphasis id="CF80EAA6A13BFFFBFD8C9E289711FFF1" box="[573,776,1385,1408]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">Paragorgia regalis</emphasis>
Nutting
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(USNM 98789).
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<emphasis id="CF80EAA6A13BFFFBFE899E9295C9FF9C" bold="true" box="[312,464,1491,1517]" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">Description.</emphasis>
Profusely branching colonies up to
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in length with slender terminal branches down to
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in diameter (Grasshoff 1979:
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). A few long, lateral branches arise from the main branches and have a clavate appearance. Medulla perforated by 34 large canals (
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). Autozooid polyps on all sides of branches (
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) but with tendency towards one side (
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). Autozooids clustered in distinct globular nodes up to
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in height; siphonozooids much smaller (
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in height) but distributed throughout the surface (
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). Salmon pink color. Autozooid polyp tentacles contain ovals up to
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in length, irregularly ornate with small conical tubercles (
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A: 15AB). Surface of the cortex, including autozooid apertures, with small 7­ and 8­radiate sclerites up to
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long but averaging
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(0.003 SD, n=10,
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; 0.005 SD, n=10, USNM 98789). Rays with smooth surfaces but greatly asymmetrical in the smaller 7­radiate forms (
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BD: 15CE). Surface radiates about 1.61.7 times longer than wider, averaging
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in width (0.002 0.003 SD). The subsurface/outer medulla with larger, chiefly 8­radiates, up to
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in length (
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). Medulla with ornate, coarsely warted spindles, oftentimes forked and ramified, up to
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in length but frequently smaller (
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E; 15F).
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<emphasis id="CF80EAA6A138FFF8FEB99D9D9583FC85" bold="true" box="[264,410,1756,1780]" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">FIGURE 14.</emphasis>
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Nutting
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, holotype (USNM 30018): A, sclerites from the polyps (scales 10 m); BD, radiate sclerites from the colony surface (scales 10 m) (BC are stereo pairs); E, sclerites from the colony medulla (scales 100 m and 20 m).
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<emphasis id="CF80EAA6A139FFF9FEB99D699580FC31" bold="true" box="[264,409,1576,1600]" pageId="27" pageNumber="28">FIGURE 15.</emphasis>
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Nutting
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(USNM 98789): AB, sclerites from the polyps (A is a stereo pair) (scale 20 m); CE, radiate sclerites from the colony surface (scales 10 m) (CD are stereo pairs); F, sclerites from the colony medulla (scales 100 m).
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<emphasis id="CF80EAA6A139FFF9FE899D85966AFCAF" bold="true" box="[312,627,1732,1758]" pageId="27" pageNumber="28">Morphological variation.</emphasis>
Surface sclerites, which include the diagnostic forms for most
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species, are quite variable in
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. The sclerite drawings by
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Bayer (1956b:
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)
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are clearly the forms from the subsurface, which are usually large 8­radiates, and were also observed in the studied material (e.g.,
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BD). Since only two specimens were examined, a larger survey is needed to determine if Japanese specimens (
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locality) differ from Hawaiian populations (e.g.,
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,
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).
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<emphasis id="CF80EAA6A13EFFFEFE899A2A95C1FBF4" bold="true" box="[312,472,363,389]" pageId="28" pageNumber="29">Distribution.</emphasis>
Pacific Ocean, Hawaii and
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,
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.
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<emphasis id="CF80EAA6A13EFFFEFE899AD29659FBDC" bold="true" box="[312,576,403,429]" pageId="28" pageNumber="29">Species comparisons.</emphasis>
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was the first who suggested that
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<emphasis id="CF80EAA6A13EFFFEFB189AD59536FBA4" italics="true" pageId="28" pageNumber="29">P. dendroides</emphasis>
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should be a junior synonymy of
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based on sclerite morphology. It is clear that sclerites from the
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material of
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(
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resemble those of the Hawaiian specimens identified by F.M. Bayer as
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<emphasis id="CF80EAA6A13EFFFEFCD0994D901BF854" box="[865,1026,524,549]" italics="true" pageId="28" pageNumber="29">P. dendroides</emphasis>
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. Nonetheless, a detailed revision of specimens throughout the Pacific is needed to clarify the synonymy of
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and/or the presence of a morphological cline across the Pacific. In comparison with other
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species, the 8­radiates from the subsurface/outer medulla of
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<emphasis id="CF80EAA6A13EFFFEFAA499C59541F8B4" italics="true" pageId="28" pageNumber="29">P. regalis</emphasis>
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resemble those from
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and
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<taxonomicName id="3AF44D37A13EFFFEFC8599ED97D5F8B4" box="[820,972,684,709]" class="Anthozoa" family="Paragorgiidae" genus="Paragorgia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="28" pageNumber="29" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="splendens">P. splendens</taxonomicName>
,
</emphasis>
but the smaller forms in
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<emphasis id="CF80EAA6A13EFFFEFAA499ED9574F89C" italics="true" pageId="28" pageNumber="29">P. johnsoni</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are smoother without the irregular ornamentation observed in
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<emphasis id="CF80EAA6A13EFFFEFBED999590D3F89C" box="[1116,1226,724,749]" italics="true" pageId="28" pageNumber="29">P. regalis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and the colonial features from
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<emphasis id="CF80EAA6A13EFFFEFDA399BD96BBF964" box="[530,674,764,789]" italics="true" pageId="28" pageNumber="29">P. splendens</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are quite different to those of
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<taxonomicName id="3AF44D37A13EFFFEFBB499BD906FF964" box="[1029,1142,764,789]" class="Anthozoa" family="Paragorgiidae" genus="Paragorgia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="28" pageNumber="29" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="regalis">P. regalis</taxonomicName>
.
</emphasis>
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