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(
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,
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.
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reef, depth
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, Great Barrier Reef, Rib reef, depth
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, coll. Z. Dinesen.
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. The
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is
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high and
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wide, the stalk is very short, almost immediately above the base the colony divides in two stems baring the branches (
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). The polyps are up to
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wide and high, they are grouped in long catkins.
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. With irregular arrangement of sclerites in eight points (
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). Abaxially and lateral point sclerites are spindles with simple tubercles and spines, abaxially up to
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long, laterally up to
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long (
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). Adaxially there are small, curved rods and scales, up to
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long, similar to those of the tentacles (
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). The polyp stalk has straight rods, up to
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long (
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). Supporting bundle not projecting or slightly so, composed of spindles, up to
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long, with simple tubercles and one spiny end (
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).
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<emphasis id="B961DA132348FFB9FF6584FAFE1BFE1E" bold="true" box="[199,474,404,431]" pageId="105" pageNumber="106">Surface layer top stalk.</emphasis>
Spindles, and unilaterally spinose spindles, up to
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long, mostly with complex tubercles (
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e-f).
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<emphasis id="B961DA132348FFB9FF6584B2FE19FE46" bold="true" box="[199,472,476,503]" pageId="105" pageNumber="106">Surface layer base stalk</emphasis>
. A few capstans and derivatives of capstans (not depicted) but mostly spindles and unilaterally spinose spindles, all with simple and complex tubercles (
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Fig.
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,
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a-b). Capstans
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long; spindles up to about
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long.
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<paragraph id="8BAA06012348FFB9FF658726FE30FD36" blockId="105.[151,1437,152,971]" pageId="105" pageNumber="106">
<emphasis id="B961DA132348FFB9FF658726FEA0FDD2" bold="true" box="[199,353,584,611]" pageId="105" pageNumber="106">Interior stalk</emphasis>
. Spindles, up to
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long, with simple and complex tubercles (
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), with pointed ends; many with side branches (
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c-d).
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<subSubSection id="C30F558A2348FFB9FF6587FFFF13FD7F" pageId="105" pageNumber="106" type="etymology">
<paragraph id="8BAA06012348FFB9FF6587FFFF13FD7F" blockId="105.[151,1437,152,971]" pageId="105" pageNumber="106">
<emphasis id="B961DA132348FFB9FF6587FFFE8AFD1A" bold="true" box="[199,331,657,683]" pageId="105" pageNumber="106">Etymology.</emphasis>
The Latin
<emphasis id="B961DA132348FFB9FE6987FFFDC0FD1A" box="[459,513,657,683]" italics="true" pageId="105" pageNumber="106">fuses</emphasis>
, spool, spindle, refers to the many spindles in the surface layer of the base of the stalk.
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<subSubSection id="C30F558A2348FFB9FF6587B6FCACFD43" box="[199,877,728,755]" pageId="105" pageNumber="106" type="distribution">
<paragraph id="8BAA06012348FFB9FF6587B6FCACFD43" blockId="105.[151,1437,152,971]" box="[199,877,728,755]" pageId="105" pageNumber="106">
<emphasis id="B961DA132348FFB9FF6587B6FE94FD42" bold="true" box="[199,341,728,755]" pageId="105" pageNumber="106">Distribution</emphasis>
. Great Barrier Reef: John Brewer reef, Rib reef.
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<subSubSection id="C30F558A2348FFB9FF658793FB64FC7B" pageId="105" pageNumber="106" type="discussion">
<paragraph id="8BAA06012348FFB9FF658793FEAFFC8B" blockId="105.[151,1437,152,971]" pageId="105" pageNumber="106">
<emphasis id="B961DA132348FFB9FF658793FEF3FCA6" bold="true" box="[199,306,765,791]" pageId="105" pageNumber="106">Remarks</emphasis>
. The
<typeStatus id="54AEB8A32348FFB9FED28793FE0FFCA6" box="[368,462,765,791]" pageId="105" pageNumber="106" type="paratype">paratype</typeStatus>
has also big interior stalk spindles, but they have no side branches, apparently the base of the stalk is missing.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BAA06012348FFB9FF65862AFB64FC7B" blockId="105.[151,1437,152,971]" pageId="105" pageNumber="106">
The species resembles
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<emphasis id="B961DA132348FFB9FE64862BFE14FCEF" box="[454,469,837,862]" italics="true" pageId="105" pageNumber="106">L</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B961DA132348FFB9FE46862AFD99FCEF" box="[484,600,836,862]" italics="true" pageId="105" pageNumber="106">snakeensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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regarding the many spindles in the surface layer of the base of the stalk, but that species has many scales in the polyps. It resembles
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<emphasis id="B961DA132348FFB9FCD68607FBD0FC33" box="[884,1041,872,898]" italics="true" pageId="105" pageNumber="106">L. brachiatum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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regarding the interior stalk spindles with side branches and the polyp sclerites, but differs from that species in having only a few radiates and derivatives of radiates in the surface layer of the stalk, and no unilaterally spinose spheroids at all.
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