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, fig. 3;
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, fig. 80;
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, figs. 21c, 2425.
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. (=
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<paragraph id="8B9E07577B50FFEAFF56FACAFD59FA82" blockId="70.[151,679,1331,1358]" box="[151,679,1331,1358]" pageId="70" pageNumber="71">Opinion: This species does occur in the region.</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B955DB457B50FFEAFF06FA66FD83FA76" box="[199,637,1439,1465]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="71">These Indian records seem to be invalid</emphasis>
:
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, pl. 26, figs 11e (SE coast);
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Fernando
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. (2017)
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: 105, pl. 47, fig. 11e (SE coast).
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<emphasis id="B955DB457B50FFEAFF06F9FEFE64F9EF" box="[199,410,1542,1568]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="71">Literature analysis</emphasis>
: Originally described as
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the species was reassigned to
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by Gordon and was comprehensively redescribed by
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. Both publications of
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and
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Fernando
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. (2017)
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describe the same material, which appears to be a different species because the triradiate thornscales do not have a long narrow spine with small prickles and rather flattened rootprocess with a tuberculate margin as occurs in the
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material. Also, the authors do not show any 3-rayed polyp sclerites that are typical of the genus, so without more detailed descriptions and larger illustrations of the sclerites it would be difficult to recognise their species and to distinguish it from
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<emphasis id="B955DB457B50FFEAFC1BF926FB4CF937" box="[986,1202,1759,1784]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="71">Trimuricea persica</emphasis>
Sammimi-Namin &amp; van Ofwegen, 2016
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, from the Persian
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. The description of Fernandos specimen says branch anastomoses are mostly around the middle of the colony, which is hard to reconcile with the illustration.
<bibRefCitation id="EFB07AA67B50FFEAFBADF8DFFABAF88F" author="Rao, D. V. &amp; Devi, K." box="[1132,1348,1830,1856]" pageId="70" pageNumber="71" pagination="1 - 99" refId="ref105853" refString="Rao, D. V. &amp; Devi, K. (2003) Studies on the soft corals (Octocorallia: Alcyonacea) of Andaman Islands, Bay of Bengal. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Occasional paper, 206, 1 - 99." type="journal article" year="2003">Rao &amp; Devi (2003)</bibRefCitation>
just list the species.
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<emphasis id="B955DB457B50FFEAFEDEF8B2FE06F8AB" box="[287,504,1866,1892]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="71">Trimuricea robusta</emphasis>
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(see below) is much closer to
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.
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