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; Downey in
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: 265
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;
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: 133
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; Mah 2011: 44.
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<emphasis id="A3EAEAA4FFB3FFCEF4CBFE9E4575CB60" bold="true" box="[151,273,350,375]" pageId="81" pageNumber="82">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
Body pentagonal (e.g.,
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). Abactinal plates weakly tabulate, covered by evenly distributed granules (e.g.
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). Marginal plates few, tumid with swollen or enlarged penultimates (e.g.,
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). Pedicellariae spatulate.
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<emphasis id="A3EAEAA4FFB3FFCEF49BFE0A452BCBF4" bold="true" box="[199,335,458,483]" pageId="81" pageNumber="82">Comments.</emphasis>
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together with
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and
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,
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which all share similar defining characters, including a pentagonal body shape, relatively few marginal plates, shallow to well-developed abactinal plates, granule-covered, either partially or completely, marginal plates with bald region on the superomarginal surface, and variably granule to spinelet covered abactinal and actinal surfaces. Several characters present among species within these genera overlap or else show poor correspondence with taxonomic concept boundaries.
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Seven species of
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are currently recognized (Mah, 2018), including five Pacific species, one Atlantic species,
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, and
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from the southern Indian Ocean, included herein.
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established
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based on an enlarged “ultimate or ante-penultimate” superomarginal plate.
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all of these species fall within the constraints of the original genus definition as clearly as the
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species,
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. Enlarged near-terminal superomarginals are present in many species of each genus and in some specimens, enlarged plates are variably, absent or weakly developed. There has, for example, been some question as to the placement of
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in
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or
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(e.g.
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,
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). Subsequent authors, such as
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, have liberally applied the enlarged ultimate/antepenultimate marginal plate criterion and differing definitions of “enlarged” have qualified different species as
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<emphasis id="A3EAEAA4FFB3FFCEF6C6FC024721C9CC" box="[666,837,962,987]" italics="true" pageId="81" pageNumber="82">Sphaeriodiscus</emphasis>
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versus
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<emphasis id="A3EAEAA4FFB3FFCEF49BFC2645A2C9E8" bold="true" box="[199,454,998,1023]" pageId="81" pageNumber="82">Type Specimen Note.</emphasis>
Perriers original type series of
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<emphasis id="A3EAEAA4FFB3FFCEF767FC26402AC9E8" box="[827,1102,998,1023]" italics="true" pageId="81" pageNumber="82">Sphaeriodiscus bourgeti</emphasis>
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is in the MNHN collections, rendering
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conclusion that the MCZ specimens were the only extant types incorrect and designation of the specimens as
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and paralectoype inappropriate.
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