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<emphasis id="B955DB457B0DFFB7FF06FA2DFC75FA21" box="[199,907,1492,1518]" italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="28">These Indian records seem to be either invalid or unconfirmable</emphasis>
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, pl. 42, fig. AE (South Andaman);
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Fernando
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, pl. 11, fig. AD (Andaman Is.).
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: This species was originally named
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Kumar
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are identical, but it is impossible to know the true characteristics of their specimen as virtually all of their description is taken word-for-word from Grasshoffs original text, which has resulted in some of their figures being quite different from their own text. The authors state that colonies are red and the polyps are arranged all around the branches, but in fig. C of their plates the pale-yellow brown colony has the biserial polyps. They also state that the coenenchyme contains long, slender spindles “with high tubercles and flat processes, many are curious looking caterpillar shapes” (as per Grasshoff), but the cortex sclerites in their figure are just short spindles and none bear any resemblance to the leaf spindles of the
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Kumar
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lists the species and provide a colony image, and
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Kumar
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) remark that the species occurs in the region and give references. The species is probably endemic to
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