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<taxonomicName id="4C217CD47B71FFCBFF56F975FD68F96B" authority="Ellis &amp; Solander, 1786: 80" authorityName="Ellis &amp; Solander" authorityPageNumber="80" authorityYear="1786" box="[151,662,1675,1700]" class="Anthozoa" family="Gorgoniidae" genus="Gorgonia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="103" pageNumber="104" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="umbraculum">
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, pl. 10 (Batavia).
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(
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<bibRefCitation id="EFB07AA67B71FFCBFCC5F952FBB3F90D" author="Bayer, F. M. &amp; Grasshoff, M." box="[772,1101,1706,1731]" pageId="103" pageNumber="104" pagination="21 - 45" refId="ref98951" refString="Bayer, F. M. &amp; Grasshoff, M. (1994) The genus group taxa of the family Ellisellidae, with clarification of the genera established by J. E. Gray (Cnidaria; Octocorallia). Senckenbergiana biologica, 74 (1 / 2), 21 - 45." type="journal article" year="1994">Bayer &amp; Grasshoff 1994: 3537</bibRefCitation>
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, fig. 8&amp;9 (
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,
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<paragraph id="8B9E07577B71FFCBFF56F912FBD6F8CA" blockId="103.[151,1064,1771,1798]" box="[151,1064,1771,1798]" pageId="103" pageNumber="104">Opinion: There is not enough evidence to affirm this species occurs in the region.</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B955DB457B71FFCBFF06F8AAFC73F8A4" box="[199,909,1875,1899]" italics="true" pageId="103" pageNumber="104">These Indian records seem to be either invalid or unconfirmable</emphasis>
:
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, fig. 1s, 13 (SE, SW coast; Andaman Is.);
<bibRefCitation id="EFB07AA67B71FFCBFE32F88EFC87F840" author="Thomas, P. A. &amp; George, R. M." box="[499,889,1911,1935]" pageId="103" pageNumber="104" pagination="417 - 425" refId="ref108077" refString="Thomas, P. A. &amp; George, R. M. (1990) Discovery of a Deep water bed off Bombay and its qualitative appraisal. Proceedings First Workshop Scientific Result FORV Sagar Sampada, 1990, 417 - 425." type="journal article" year="1990">Thomas &amp; George 1990: 421422</bibRefCitation>
, fig. g, 13; pl. 1E (off
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Thomas
<emphasis id="B955DB457B71FFCBFAA2F881FA68F840" box="[1379,1430,1911,1935]" italics="true" pageId="103" pageNumber="104">et al</emphasis>
. 1995: 140141
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(NE coast);
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, fig. 22&amp;23 (SW coast);;
<bibRefCitation id="EFB07AA67B71FFCBFBFAF862FAE3F87C" author="Fernando, S. A." box="[1083,1309,1947,1971]" pageId="103" pageNumber="104" refId="ref100707" refString="Fernando, S. A. (2011) Monograph on Gorgonids (Sea fans) of India. Centre of Advanced Study in Marine Biology, Faculty of Marine Sciences, Parangipettai, 145 pp." type="book" year="2011">Fernando 2011: 122</bibRefCitation>
, pl. 83, fig. 11n (SW and East coast); Sivaleela &amp; Padmanabhan 2015: 2627, pl. 2, fig. 10 (Erwadi);
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Fernando
<emphasis id="B955DB457B71FFCBFB2BF846FAE4F819" box="[1258,1306,1982,2006]" italics="true" pageId="103" pageNumber="104">et al</emphasis>
. 2017: 282
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, pl. 132, figs. 11n (SW and East coast).
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<emphasis id="B955DB457B7EFFC4FF06FF60FE64FF7F" box="[199,410,152,176]" italics="true" pageId="104" pageNumber="105">Literature analysis</emphasis>
: This species was originally named
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for a specimen from
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(“Batavia”). It was transferred to the genus
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by
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, to
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by
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, to
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, and to
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by Utinomi (1958), but the detailed characteristics of the original material have never been published. To stabilise the taxonomy, and using a specimen collected from
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,
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designated a
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, which meant that all previous descriptions since that of Ellis &amp; Solander cannot be relied upon, including the extensive synonymy given by
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.
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Using the old name
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,
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the species was described by
<bibRefCitation id="EFB07AA67B7EFFC4FBDDFE96FAC9FE48" author="Thomas, P. A. &amp; George, R. M." box="[1052,1335,367,391]" pageId="104" pageNumber="105" pagination="96 - 112" refId="ref107948" refString="Thomas, P. A. &amp; George, R. M. (1986) A systematic appraisal of the commercially important gorgonids of the Indian seas. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India, 28 (1 &amp; 2), 96 - 112." type="journal article" year="1986">Thomas &amp; George (1986</bibRefCitation>
&amp;
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),
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Thomas
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. (1995)
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,
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and Sivaleela &amp; Padmanabhan (2015), but it is not possible to tell what species they had and all sclerite dimensions in their accounts (most written prior to the
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designation) are far too small to be
<emphasis id="B955DB457B7EFFC4FEA8FE23FD89FE3D" box="[361,631,474,498]" italics="true" pageId="104" pageNumber="105">
<taxonomicName id="4C217CD47B7EFFC4FEA8FE23FD8DFE3D" baseAuthorityName="Ellis &amp; Solander" baseAuthorityYear="1786" box="[361,627,474,498]" class="Anthozoa" family="Ellisellidae" genus="Verrucella" kingdom="Animalia" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="104" pageNumber="105" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="umbraculum">Verrucella umbraculum</taxonomicName>
.
</emphasis>
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and
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Venkataraman
<emphasis id="B955DB457B7EFFC4FBB9FE22FB57FE3D" box="[1144,1193,474,498]" italics="true" pageId="104" pageNumber="105">et al</emphasis>
. (2004)
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just listed the species, again using the old name.
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The descriptions of Indian material tentatively assigned to this species by
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and
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Fernando
<emphasis id="B955DB457B7EFFC4FAA5FDDBFA68FDF5" box="[1380,1430,546,570]" italics="true" pageId="104" pageNumber="105">et al</emphasis>
. (2017)
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are identical, however, their sclerite figures are far too small to see much detail, and the different colony forms of their specimens indicate they must have had a mixture of species. From the available data, and allowing for some slight differences in sclerite dimensions (where they are known) it is not possible to distinguish this taxon, as treated by these authors, from the identity of the material they assigned to
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<emphasis id="B955DB457B7EFFC4FCB0FD49FB97FD07" box="[881,1129,688,712]" italics="true" pageId="104" pageNumber="105">Verrucella dichromata</emphasis>
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,
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<emphasis id="B955DB457B7EFFC4FAE8FD49FEE9FD23" italics="true" pageId="104" pageNumber="105">Verrucella ixoboloides</emphasis>
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,
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<emphasis id="B955DB457B7EFFC4FE18FD2DFD4DFD23" box="[473,691,724,748]" italics="true" pageId="104" pageNumber="105">Verrucella diadema</emphasis>
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, and
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<emphasis id="B955DB457B7EFFC4FC68FD2DFB86FD23" box="[937,1144,724,748]" italics="true" pageId="104" pageNumber="105">Verrucella pinnata</emphasis>
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.
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