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<paragraph id="C85453509CFCB99EBB582A5DF3E845AB" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">Taxon classification Animalia Alcyonacea Nephtheidae</paragraph>
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<taxonomicName id="1A5783A6321A3F64A58709369DCE8342" ID-CoL="3VMBN" authority="Forskal, 1775" authorityName="Forskal" authorityYear="1775" class="Anthozoa" family="Nephtheidae" genus="Litophyton" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Litophyton arboreum" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="5" pageNumber="6" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="arboreum">
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Litophyton arboreum
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, 1775
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Figures 1B, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16
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<taxonomicName id="F6887ABDEBCDA7350E30843ADF28D65C" class="Anthozoa" family="Nephtheidae" genus="Litophyton" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Litophyton arboreum" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="6" pageNumber="7" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="arboreum">
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<pageBreakToken id="FB02B40353277F1EDEE36089522F0E31" pageId="6" pageNumber="7" start="start">Litophyton</pageBreakToken>
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arboreum
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<normalizedToken id="CEAF10E7A36BFF02D83BAB27F199E1C6" originalValue="Forskål">Forskal</normalizedToken>
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, 1775: 139 (Red Sea);
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<bibRefCitation id="A05A8E10169CEFFE69CE46599DE8AF05" author="Roxas, HA" journalOrPublisher="Philippine Journal of Science" pageId="29" pageNumber="30" pagination="345 - 470" title="Philippine Alcyonaria, II. The Families Alcyoniidae and Nephthyidae." volume="50" year="1933">Roxas 1933</bibRefCitation>
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: 384 (in key only; discussion about synonymy); Verseveldt 1965: 33 (Red Sea).
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="6E0DAF761159C18D303629E57B5FCBAF" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">
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<taxonomicName id="8877998497E8B98AE31EEE60DAE31183" class="Anthozoa" family="Nephtheidae" genus="Ammothea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Ammothea virescens" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="6" pageNumber="7" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="virescens">Ammothea virescens</taxonomicName>
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Lamarck, 1816: 411; Savigny 1817: pl. 2 fig. 6;
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<bibRefCitation id="9D1A7BFCD6D9BD43DEA14EB38404C55D" author="Blainville, HMD de" journalOrPublisher="Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles" pageId="27" pageNumber="28" pagination="1 - 631" title="Paris." volume="60" year="1830">Blainville 1830</bibRefCitation>
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: 486;
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<bibRefCitation id="8ECBF7DD37A9028B61D6B96906AEC95B" author="Blainville, HMD de" journalOrPublisher="Paris" pageId="27" pageNumber="28" title="Manuel d'Actinlogie ou de Zoophytologie" year="1834">1834</bibRefCitation>
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: 522;
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<bibRefCitation id="6187F06BA904438002D4B80400E5A4CA" author="Ehrenberg, CG" journalOrPublisher="Abhandlungen der Koeniglichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin Aus dem Jahre 1832" pageId="27" pageNumber="28" pagination="225 - 380" title="Beitraege zur physiologischen Kenntniss der Corallenthiere im allgemeinen, und besonders des rothen Meeres, nebst einem Versuche zur physiologischen Systematik derselben." volume="Erster Theil" year="1834">Ehrenberg 1834</bibRefCitation>
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: 283 (listed);
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<bibRefCitation id="6240B86F2FE9CF8D2DC3FBC42AD10913" author="Gray, JE" journalOrPublisher="Annals and Magazine of Natural History" pageId="27" pageNumber="28" pagination="117 - 131" title="Notes on the fleshy alcyonoid corals (Alcyonium, Linn., or Zoophytaria carnosa)." url="10.1080/00222936908695893" volume="3" year="1869">Gray 1869</bibRefCitation>
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: 129;
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<bibRefCitation id="19218243372C0326980AF83E402A6BCD" author="Haeckel, E" journalOrPublisher="Georg Reimer, Berlin" pageId="27" pageNumber="28" title="Arabische Korallen. Ein Ausflug nach den Korallenbanken des Rothen Meeres und ein Blick in des Leben der Korallenthiere" year="1876">Haeckel 1876</bibRefCitation>
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: pl. 1 fig. 9;
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<bibRefCitation id="FF7D5FE87A5C68B91E2BB9AF6022E013" author="Kuekenthal, W" editor="Kuekenthal, W" journalOrPublisher="Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft" pageId="27" pageNumber="28" pagination="81 - 144" title="Alcyonaceen von Ternate." volume="23" volumeTitle="Ergebnisse einer zoologischen Forschungsreise in den Molukken und Borneo, im Auftrage der Senckenbergischen naturforschenden Gesellschaft ausgefurt von Dr Willy Kuekenthal, Teil 2, Band." year="1896">
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<normalizedToken id="3984E95C59FDA648B462F1C3E97080DD" originalValue="Kükenthal">Kuekenthal</normalizedToken>
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1869
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</bibRefCitation>
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: 129.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="D1E5B5DCAB05349E1E50429E90462758" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">
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<taxonomicName id="CF6159C1315BE513C070C9B8E330E2BC" class="Anthozoa" family="Nephtheidae" genus="Nephthea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Nephthea cordierii" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="6" pageNumber="7" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="cordierii">Nephthea cordierii</taxonomicName>
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Audouin, 1828: 48 (Savigny's, pl. 2 fig. 6).
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="A8FEA2903D0C283EE2EBE40CA8F8D329" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">
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<taxonomicName id="12C6236F9A27D2CC4E765255BFDF7456" class="Anthozoa" family="Nephtheidae" genus="Neptaea" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Neptaea inominata" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="6" pageNumber="7" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="inominata">Neptaea inominata</taxonomicName>
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Blainville, 1830: 487 (Savigny's, pl. 2 fig. 6);
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<bibRefCitation id="DFB44CDCC4C283ACBBE076D9AD19146F" author="Blainville, HMD de" journalOrPublisher="Paris" pageId="27" pageNumber="28" title="Manuel d'Actinlogie ou de Zoophytologie" year="1834">1834</bibRefCitation>
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: 523.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="53806421896CB148535F3C687EB4FE65" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">
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<taxonomicName id="570359A1F3492DE0482ECB848A0225BB" class="Anthozoa" family="Nephtheidae" genus="Ammothea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Ammothea arborea" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="6" pageNumber="7" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="arborea">Ammothea arborea</taxonomicName>
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Klunzinger, 1877: 31, pl. 2 fig. 4 (Red Sea);
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<bibRefCitation id="CC7F3F25E9CC2800241C582E3F0C29A1" author="May, W" journalOrPublisher="Jenaischen Zeitschrift fuer Naturwissenschaft" pageId="28" pageNumber="29" pagination="1 - 180" title="Beitraege zur Systematik und Chorologie der Alcyonaceen." volume="33" year="1899">May 1899</bibRefCitation>
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: 133.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="9908CF8742761F656B55A2BB9610989C" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">
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<taxonomicName id="728A57731DB22BB86EB658D14D4F823A" genus="Litophytum" lsidName="Litophytum arboreum" pageId="6" pageNumber="7" rank="species" species="arboreum">Litophytum arboreum</taxonomicName>
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;
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<bibRefCitation id="6C1801F54A7A4159D50D286B86F4BE28" author="Kuekenthal, W" journalOrPublisher="Zoologische (Syst.)" pageId="27" pageNumber="28" pagination="99 - 178" title="Versuch einer Revision der Alcyonarien. 2. Die Familie der Nephthyiden 1. Theil." volume="19" year="1903">
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<normalizedToken id="889301ADC4B4D8BCF6408FB8E0763CC7" originalValue="Kükenthal">Kuekenthal</normalizedToken>
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1903
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</bibRefCitation>
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: 124 (Red Sea);
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<bibRefCitation id="BBB6F1A10DFB38D76A0064333072799A" author="Kuekenthal, W" journalOrPublisher="Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften Wien, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse" pageId="28" pageNumber="29" pagination="1 - 33" title="Alcyonaria des Roten Meeres. Expeditionen S. M. Schiff " Pola " in das Rote Meer. Zoologische Ergebnisse 29." volume="89" year="1913">1913</bibRefCitation>
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: 12 (Red Sea);
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<bibRefCitation id="050E4DA3DCCC35BC90AE5B8445CBFC13" author="Thomson, JA" journalOrPublisher="Society London" pageId="29" pageNumber="30" pagination="48 - 75" title="Reports on the marine biology of the Sudanese Red Sea. - VII. The Alcyonarians. Journal of the Linnean." volume="31" year="1908">Thomson and McQueen 1908</bibRefCitation>
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: 55 (Sudanese Red Sea);
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<bibRefCitation id="E7E3C62C6B6EEC2F9D4FB274A2F6E50C" author="Shann, EW" journalOrPublisher="Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London" pageId="29" pageNumber="30" pagination="507 - 527" title="Observations on some Alcyonaria from Singapore, with a brief discussion of the classification of the family Nephthyidae." volume="1912" year="1912">Shann 1912</bibRefCitation>
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: 511, pl. 61 fig. 1 (reproduction of Savigny's, pl. 2 fig. 6).
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="8C81D06E3524FC264356E5082C0E7A28" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">
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<taxonomicName id="510FDD0C74334EB4F6B8BFEE86A7E8DE" class="Anthozoa" family="Nephtheidae" genus="Litophyton" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Litophyton viride" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="6" pageNumber="7" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="viride">Litophyton viride</taxonomicName>
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;
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<bibRefCitation id="E73FE06E1198FD6F346755C63A1848E9" author="Bayer, FM" journalOrPublisher="Leiden" pageId="27" pageNumber="28" pagination="1 - 75" title="Illustrated trilingual glossary of morphological and anatomical terms applied to Octocorallia" year="1983">Bayer et al. 1983</bibRefCitation>
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: pl. 17 fig. 121.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="04070B08EBB9123CDAAE3201C428DDAE" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">
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<taxonomicName id="EB2482C73FF1ECBEC27A75A45A63F660" class="Anthozoa" family="Nephtheidae" genus="Litophyton" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Litophyton arboreum" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="6" pageNumber="7" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="arboreum">Litophyton arboreum</taxonomicName>
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Not
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<taxonomicName id="E70F03B0BA937B6866358FF861DAF606" class="Anthozoa" family="Nephtheidae" genus="Litophyton" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Litophyton arboreum" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="6" pageNumber="7" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="arboreum">Litophyton arboreum</taxonomicName>
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;
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<bibRefCitation id="0492664E008669B71A496DB23826BFF5" author="Verseveldt, J" journalOrPublisher="Zoologische Verhandelingen Leiden" pageId="29" pageNumber="30" pagination="1 - 109" title="Biological Results of the Snellius Expedition XXII. Octocorallia from the Malay Archipelago (Part II)." volume="80" year="1966">Verseveldt 1966</bibRefCitation>
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: 5, figs 1-2, pl. 1 (Sulawesi);
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<bibRefCitation id="15D3882ADDA65B7F04686931318C6E76" author="Tixier-Durivault, A" journalOrPublisher="Cahiers du Pacifique" pageId="29" pageNumber="30" pagination="115 - 236" title="Les octocoralliaires de Nha-Trang (Viet-Nam)." volume="14" year="1970 a">Tixier-Durivault 1970a</bibRefCitation>
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: 222 (Vietnam);
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<bibRefCitation id="FD11ACFF161C7C5FF749852C4A665030" author="Tixier-Durivault, A" journalOrPublisher="Tethys" pageId="29" pageNumber="30" pagination="11 - 68" title="Nouvel rapport d'octocoralliaires de Madagascar et des iles avoisinantes." volume="3" year="1972">1972</bibRefCitation>
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: 29 (Madagascar).
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</paragraph>
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<subSubSection id="0B012526FFC28F6E54BD9BF9AEB19EF3" pageId="6" pageNumber="7" type="materials_examined">
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<paragraph id="8EC8293E0A22B26DCED64349F2A24BAF" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">Material examined.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="BD8174E154FB23540B68F11CF2377063" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">ZMTAU Co 26246, neotype, Red Sea, Gulf of Aqaba Eilat Marine lab, 12 m depth, 20 March 1978, coll. Y. Benayahu; RMNH Coel. 8917, Red Sea, Gulf of Suez, Abu Durba, coll. Hebrew Univ.-Smiths. Red Sea project; RMNH Coel. 8918, Red Sea, Gulf of Aqaba, 5 March 1972, coll. H. Schumacher; RMNH Coel. 8919, Red Sea, Gulf of Suez, Et Tur, depth 12 m, 1 January 1969, coll. Hebrew Univ.-Smiths. Red Sea project; RMNH Coel. 8949, Red Sea, Gulf of Suez, Et Tur, 20 September 1967, coll. Hebrew Univ.-Smiths. Red Sea project; ZMTAU Co 25847, two colonies, Red Sea, 1986-1987, coll. Y. Benayahu; ZMTAU Co 25858, Red Sea, Gulf of Suez, Shag Rock, depth 3-24 m, 14 July 1987, coll. Y. Benayahu; ZMTAU Co 26234, Red Sea, Gulf of Suez, El Bilaiyim lagoon, 24 August 1971, coll. D. Popper; RMNH Coel. 42083, Indian Ocean, Socotra, Ras Farun SW, sta. 207, sample 80, subtidal, 11 April 1999, coll. G. Reinicke, microscope slides only.</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection id="DDFC3C222922C8E46C2E9001FBAC6196" pageId="6" pageNumber="7" type="reassigned to the species">
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<paragraph id="098EB4CAB4D047416C93DB98C5DD484B" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">Reassigned to the species.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="1311AC58AC4CA98C46231E50F37D6D86" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">
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RMNH Coel. 8941, Red Sea, Gulf of Aqaba, Ophir Bay, 30 August 1967, coll. Hebrew Univ.- Smiths. Red Sea project (misidentified by Verseveldt as
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<taxonomicName id="6504E3CCAFFDE984CC9C2975243EA045" class="Anthozoa" family="Nephtheidae" genus="Nephthea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Nephthea laevis" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="6" pageNumber="7" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="laevis">Nephthea laevis</taxonomicName>
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).
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<subSubSection id="FD9344B0F88184A603368D7C29F3C21C" pageId="6" pageNumber="7" type="removed from the species">
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<paragraph id="75448EA7D9B9B0BBE4F24C8D1DB1EBE9" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">Removed from the species.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="7CB34FADEAB044530A82F72F280D6874" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">RMNH Coel. 2218, Indonesia, Sulawesi, 18 April 1978; RMNH Coel. 17122, Australia, Lodestone reef, July 1972, coll. G.R. Pettit (see remarks).</paragraph>
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<subSubSection id="32B7D5E89FD26FD4BC2A6D67C66E03B3" pageId="6" pageNumber="7" type="diagnosis">
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<paragraph id="7C9EBAD50F13C40A8ACBF1C3441CB419" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="01697137251DEDF0CD1C77835E8598B1" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">
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<taxonomicName id="B53259C0C8E921690D790C00C06702C8" class="Anthozoa" family="Nephtheidae" genus="Litophyton" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Litophyton" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="6" pageNumber="7" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="genus">Litophyton</taxonomicName>
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with many internal spindles of the base of the stalk with blunt ends. The polyp stalk with scales.
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<paragraph id="CF18AB8B993D4EA6A9D5948424DF91D1" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">Description.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="F857BC61DF0F0F8B0F4D8880063C766F" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">The neotype is 5 cm high and 7.5 cm wide; the colony stalk is 2-3 cm high (Figure 12).</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="F00E8EACAABD273B9C9A022182F48E8D" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">The polyps (Figure 13) are up to about 0.5 mm wide and high. Supporting bundle not projecting, composed of clavate spindles with simple, tall tubercles, outer side and one end thorny (Figure 14A). Length of these spindles is up to 0.7 mm. Polyp body sclerites irregularly arranged, the smallest are present adaxially, they are sparsely tuberculated spindles (Figure 14B); abaxially they merge into the smaller spindles of the supporting bundle and likewise have a thorny outer side (Figure 14C). The tentacles have rodlets up to 0.05 mm long (Figure 14D). The polyp stalk has scales up to 0.05 mm long (Figure 14E).</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="CE00D191102B6C14D67A9635EFA9D670" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">Surface layer top of stalk. Spindles, radiates, and derivatives of these, merging into unilaterally spinose spindles; all sclerites with simple tubercles (Figures 14F, 15A). The spindles are up to 0.3 mm long.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="9EB6A4397D8BBF2D5C1C8512414AF693" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">
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Surface layer base of stalk. Sclerites similar to those of the top of the stalk but with longer and sharper spines (Figure 15
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<normalizedToken id="2302D496088CDBFAE549C082B736C391" originalValue="B–C">B-C</normalizedToken>
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).
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="D401E4A1F6173335BE1A821C635D6D71" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">
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Interior base of stalk. Spindles, up to 1.2 mm long, with simple sparse tubercles (Figure 16
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<normalizedToken id="F8AA5F9725729B98B2B21E5EA183582D" originalValue="A–B">A-B</normalizedToken>
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). A few spindles have one or more side branches, many have one or two blunt ends. The smaller spindles are more often branched than the larger ones.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="1EA50627A426F35D3F10B79BEE27F5C8" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">Colour. The colony is white.</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection id="4221E8DD63ADF3432EDA9FCCFDBF526C" pageId="6" pageNumber="7" type="distribution">
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<paragraph id="B3A36A9E261EB0E1D1788C3C2AFEE896" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">Distribution.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="151BAAEB50A991800292F462E757D1BC" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">Red Sea, Socotra.</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection id="DD703A8875EFA2B306A5E483BC934DE6" lastPageId="7" lastPageNumber="8" pageId="6" pageNumber="7" type="remarks">
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<paragraph id="BEE1AFDD0C06C84E3ACB25D3316DBF91" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">Remarks.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="9C815922FFEDA0699436F8E1541B9A0B" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">The microscope slide of the stalk of ZMTAU Co 26234 only has internal sclerites of the stalk because the specimen has the surface layer missing.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="1FDE05424762A661203E7B3F2BAFEB60" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">RMNH Coel. 8917, 8918, and 8919 agree with the above description, although of RMNH Coel. 8918 no interior stalk microscope slide exists.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="3FC71C91D21A5DE2F61F117991636ABB" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">
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<pageBreakToken id="493982387B608EF14B586E4132CE3459" pageId="7" pageNumber="8" start="start">Two</pageBreakToken>
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of the 14 microscope slides of RMNH Coel. 2218, from Indonesia, are missing, notably those of the interior stalk sclerites. The unilaterally spinose sclerites of the surface layer of the stalk have much higher spines than those of the neotype of
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<taxonomicName id="3B6EF772DD13DBFB9BA80FF2BDED9BFA" class="Anthozoa" family="Nephtheidae" genus="Litophyton" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Litophyton arboreum" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="7" pageNumber="8" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="arboreum">Litophyton arboreum</taxonomicName>
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, and the slide with polyp sclerites also shows different sclerites, no polyp stalk scales at all. I regard this a misidentification.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="39D0DC8E5C3B3B23F4C16ECD4255CAC5" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">RMNH Coel. 17122, from Australia, is clearly a misidentification, it has pointed interior sclerites in the base of the stalk.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="0E471CC7810E89975C6736B0CD296C7B" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">
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<taxonomicName id="E951CF9942EA7B893CFD75DB26F1AB30" class="Anthozoa" family="Nephtheidae" genus="Litophyton" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Litophyton arboreum" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="7" pageNumber="8" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="arboreum">Litophyton arboreum</taxonomicName>
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is characterized by having large spindles with blunt ends in the interior of the stalk.
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<taxonomicName id="B6E6521E6CFCED4918935CEB5E2F4500" class="Anthozoa" family="Nephtheidae" genus="Litophyton" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Litophyton acuticonicum" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="7" pageNumber="8" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="acuticonicum">Litophyton acuticonicum</taxonomicName>
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and
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<taxonomicName id="6440EDFBDF852AC074C03B58E0F28B9B" class="Anthozoa" family="Nephtheidae" genus="Litophyton" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Litophyton simulatum" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="7" pageNumber="8" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="simulatum">Litophyton simulatum</taxonomicName>
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also have this type of sclerites.
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<taxonomicName id="7F515C008602CCEADC1B3936EAA3BD72" class="Anthozoa" family="Nephtheidae" genus="Litophyton" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Litophyton acuticonicum" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="7" pageNumber="8" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="acuticonicum">Litophyton acuticonicum</taxonomicName>
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differs in having branched, unilaterally spinose spindles in the surface layer of the stalk, which are also twice as long as the unbranched spinose spindles of
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<taxonomicName id="296E6B2DC41AA7D7E046A9D75615079C" class="Anthozoa" family="Nephtheidae" genus="Litophyton" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Litophyton arboreum" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="7" pageNumber="8" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="arboreum">Litophyton arboreum</taxonomicName>
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.
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<taxonomicName id="4F1F262DC96F8B6366F9006963F62220" class="Anthozoa" family="Nephtheidae" genus="Litophyton" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Litophyton simulatum" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="7" pageNumber="8" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="simulatum">Litophyton simulatum</taxonomicName>
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also differs in having twice as long unilaterally spinose spindles in the surface layer of the stalk. Moreover,
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<taxonomicName id="1A7820F9C4420A527E0C4D45F477DB11" class="Anthozoa" family="Nephtheidae" genus="Litophyton" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Litophyton arboreum" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="7" pageNumber="8" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="arboreum">Litophyton arboreum</taxonomicName>
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has small oval scales in the polyp stalk, a type of sclerite not present in
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<taxonomicName id="5AF3A1A15DC62AD4D18956D7FF4BD39C" class="Anthozoa" family="Nephtheidae" genus="Litophyton" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Litophyton acuticonicum" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="7" pageNumber="8" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="acuticonicum">Litophyton acuticonicum</taxonomicName>
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and
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<taxonomicName id="DDD097352B4D236B1EC3A13354D4F1EE" class="Anthozoa" family="Nephtheidae" genus="Litophyton" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Litophyton simulatum" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="7" pageNumber="8" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="simulatum">Litophyton simulatum</taxonomicName>
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.
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</paragraph>
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