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<emphasis id="B953EA97991AD965D4C09C5781023014" bold="true" box="[151,354,1827,1853]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Trimuricea flava</emphasis>
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(
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d, 912, 31ab)
<emphasis id="B953EA979901D97ED4909BE381393799" bold="true" box="[199,345,151,176]" pageId="17" pageNumber="18">Description.</emphasis>
The
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is
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high and
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wide, branched in one plane, and many anastomoses are present forming a network; the meshes of the network are mostly elongate (
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d). The stem is about
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long and thick and the branches are
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thick. The calyces are dome shaped, arranged closely together and situated all around the branches. They are low, only a few mm tall and a have diameter of up to
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.
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<th id="76C65DBB991A2690D4C09CF9829A308F" box="[151,762,1933,1958]" gridcol="0" gridrow="0" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">
<emphasis id="B953EA97991AD965D4C09CF98168308F" bold="true" box="[151,264,1933,1958]" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Material:</emphasis>
Holotype, RMNH Coel. 39861, Iran, Gulf
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<th id="76C65DBB991A2690D7529CF984A9308F" box="[773,1225,1933,1958]" gridcol="1" gridrow="0" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">of Oman, Chabahar, 25° 16ʹ 26.65ʺ N,</th>
<th id="76C65DBB991A2690D0869CF985FD308F" box="[1233,1437,1933,1958]" gridcol="2" gridrow="0" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">60° 40 38.93″ E,</th>
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<th id="76C65DBB991A2690D4C09CC5829A30E3" box="[151,762,1969,1994]" gridcol="0" gridrow="1" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">1015 m depth, coll. K. Samimi-Namin, 27 January</th>
<td id="76C65DBB991A2690D7529CC584A930E3" box="[773,1225,1969,1994]" gridcol="1" gridrow="1" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">2009. Paratypes, two colonies, RMNH</td>
<td id="76C65DBB991A2690D0869CC585FD30E3" box="[1233,1437,1969,1994]" gridcol="2" gridrow="1" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Coel. 39862, and</td>
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<tr id="351734C7991A2690D4C09CA185FD30C7" box="[151,1437,2005,2030]" gridrow="2" pageId="10" pageNumber="11" rowspan-1="1" rowspan-2="1">
<th id="76C65DBB991A2690D4C09CA1829A30C7" box="[151,762,2005,2030]" gridcol="0" gridrow="2" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">RMNH Coel. 41668, same data as holotype.</th>
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<paragraph id="8B983685991BD964D4C09CD9819130CB" blockId="11.[151,1436,1965,2018]" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">
<emphasis id="B953EA97991BD964D4C09CD9817230EA" bold="true" box="[151,274,1965,1987]" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">FIGURE 7.</emphasis>
The polyp sclerites of
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<emphasis id="B953EA97991BD964D5AD9CDB82E230EA" box="[506,642,1965,1988]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">T. caledonica</emphasis>
Grasshoff, 1999
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, paratype, SMF 6753: a, point triradiates; b, point spindles; c, collaret spindles; d, tentacle scale.
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<paragraph id="8B983685991CD963D4C09CD5845130FC" blockId="12.[151,1435,1953,2005]" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">
<emphasis id="B953EA97991CD963D4C09CD58178309F" bold="true" box="[151,280,1953,1975]" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">FIGURE 8.</emphasis>
Sclerites of
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Grasshoff, 1999
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, paratype, SMF 6753: a, calicular thornscales; b, coenenchymal spindles; c, small, irregular shaped coenenchymal sclerites. Scale at c, only applies to c.
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<paragraph id="8B983685991DD962D4C09CCC812330C4" blockId="13.[151,1436,1976,2029]" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">
<emphasis id="B953EA97991DD962D4C09CCC817530E4" bold="true" box="[151,277,1976,1998]" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">FIGURE 9.</emphasis>
The polyp sclerites of
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<emphasis id="B953EA97991DD962D6599CCE823D30E7" box="[526,605,1976,1999]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">T. flava</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B953EA97991DD962D6319CCD82C230E7" bold="true" box="[614,674,1977,1998]" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">n. sp.</emphasis>
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, holotype, RMNH Coel. 39861: a, point triradiates; b, point spindles; c, collaret spindles.
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<emphasis id="B953EA97991ED961D4C09CC9817F30FB" bold="true" box="[151,287,1981,2003]" pageId="14" pageNumber="15">FIGURE 10.</emphasis>
Sclerites of
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<emphasis id="B953EA97991ED961D5C99CCA818A30FA" box="[414,490,1981,2003]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="15">T. flava</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B953EA97991ED961D5A79CC9824930FB" bold="true" box="[496,553,1981,2002]" pageId="14" pageNumber="15">n. sp.</emphasis>
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, holotype, RMNH Coel. 39861: a, calicular thornscales; b, coenenchymal spindles.
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<paragraph id="8B983685991FD960D4C09CC7812330CE" blockId="15.[151,1436,1971,2023]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">
<emphasis id="B953EA97991FD960D4C09CC7814130E1" bold="true" box="[151,289,1971,1993]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">FIGURE 11.</emphasis>
The polyp sclerites of
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<emphasis id="B953EA97991FD960D6419CC0820530E0" box="[534,613,1971,1993]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">T. flava</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B953EA97991FD960D63A9CC782C930E1" bold="true" box="[621,681,1971,1992]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">n. sp.</emphasis>
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, paratype, RMNH Coel. 39862: a, point triradiates; b, point spindles; c, collaret spindles.
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<emphasis id="B953EA979900D97FD4C09CBD817F30F7" bold="true" box="[151,287,1993,2015]" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">FIGURE 12.</emphasis>
Sclerites of
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<emphasis id="B953EA979900D97FD5C99CBE818A30F6" box="[414,490,1993,2015]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">T. flava</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B953EA979900D97FD5A79CBD824930F7" bold="true" box="[496,553,1993,2014]" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">n. sp.</emphasis>
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, paratype, RMNH Coel. 39862: a, calicular thornscales; b, coenenchymal spindles.
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The points have triradiates (
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a), along with curved, hockeystick or boot-shaped sclerites, or spindles (
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b),
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long. The upper ray of the triradiates and upper part of the spindles is slightly echinulate for up to
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(
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a). The collaret spindles are
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long (
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c); the middle part of the convex side is slightly more tuberculate than the concave side and both ends. These polyp sclerites have strong tuberculation. A few tentacle scales are present, up to
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long.
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The calyces have thornscales,
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long, with an echinulate or tuberculate thorn up to
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long (
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a). Some of these thornscales have more than one thorn. The thornscales have complexly branched roots.
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The coenenchyme has spindles,
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long, with simple, and complex, densely placed tubercles (
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b). Several of these spindles have side branches or a few thorns.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B953EA979901D97ED4909918814035AC" bold="true" box="[199,288,620,645]" pageId="17" pageNumber="18">Colour.</emphasis>
In live colonies the extended polyps are yellow (
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a,
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) but the colonies appear as more orange when the polyps are retracted (
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b,
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); preserved colonies are brown. All sclerites are faintly yellow.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C33D650E9901D97ED49099A3822D343C" pageId="17" pageNumber="18" type="etymology">
<paragraph id="8B9836859901D97ED49099A3822D343C" blockId="17.[151,1437,151,1257]" pageId="17" pageNumber="18">
<emphasis id="B953EA979901D97ED49099A3812E35D9" bold="true" box="[199,334,727,752]" pageId="17" pageNumber="18">Etymology.</emphasis>
The specific epithet is derived from the Latin
<emphasis id="B953EA979901D97ED70699A383F435D9" box="[849,916,727,752]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="18">flavus</emphasis>
(gold-coloured, yellow). It refers to the colour of the polyps and the colonial sclerites.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C33D650E9901D97ED490986B833333C1" pageId="17" pageNumber="18" type="discussion">
<paragraph id="8B9836859901D97ED490986B84E834A9" blockId="17.[151,1437,151,1257]" pageId="17" pageNumber="18">
<emphasis id="B953EA979901D97ED490986B815B3411" bold="true" box="[199,315,799,824]" pageId="17" pageNumber="18">Remarks.</emphasis>
One of the
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RMNH Coel. 39862 has a side fan perpendicular to the main fan. It also has slightly longer coenenchymal spindles than the
<typeStatus id="549C88279901D97ED6F8983083713474" box="[687,785,836,861]" pageId="17" pageNumber="18" type="holotype">holotype</typeStatus>
(
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b). It also contains thornscales with slightly more complex thorns (
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a). The polyp sclerites are also more complexly warted (
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b).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B9836859901D97ED49098F883FE34E1" blockId="17.[151,1437,151,1257]" pageId="17" pageNumber="18">
The live colony of one of the
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, RMNH Coel. 41668, was slightly different from the other specimens. It was dark orange to magenta in some parts of the colony (
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b).
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<paragraph id="8B9836859901D97ED49098A184DF33ED" blockId="17.[151,1437,151,1257]" pageId="17" pageNumber="18">
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<emphasis id="B953EA979901D97ED49098A181E234C4" box="[199,386,980,1005]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="18">Trimuricea flava</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B953EA979901D97ED5DE98A081A834C4" bold="true" box="[393,456,980,1005]" pageId="17" pageNumber="18">n. sp.</emphasis>
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resembles
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<emphasis id="B953EA979901D97ED61098A182D834C5" box="[583,696,981,1004]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="18">T. spinosa</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B953EA979901D97ED6E898A0829E34C4" bold="true" box="[703,766,980,1005]" pageId="17" pageNumber="18">n. sp.</emphasis>
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, as both species have thornscales possessing more than one thorn, and similar looking coenenchymal spindles.
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<emphasis id="B953EA979901D97ED6AD988D83BA3339" box="[762,986,1017,1040]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="18">Trimuricea spinosa</emphasis>
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differs in having colourless sclerites, triradiates with a strongly echinulate ray, and less tuberculate collaret spindles. Due to its longer and more complex coenenchymal spindles, the other
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of
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<emphasis id="B953EA979901D97ED6CF9F3583343371" box="[664,852,1087,1112]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="18">Trimuricea flava</emphasis>
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has considerable resemblance to
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<emphasis id="B953EA979901D97ED09C9F35850C3371" box="[1227,1388,1089,1112]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="18">T. merguiensis</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="B953EA979901D97ED4C09F1181583354" box="[151,312,1124,1149]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="18">T. tuberculosa</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B953EA979901D97ED5169F1081E33354" bold="true" box="[321,387,1124,1149]" pageId="17" pageNumber="18">n. sp.</emphasis>
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However, both of these species differ from
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<emphasis id="B953EA979901D97ED7D59F1184203354" box="[898,1088,1124,1149]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="18">Trimuricea flava</emphasis>
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in having colourless sclerites.
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<emphasis id="B953EA979901D97ED4C09FFD81C33389" box="[151,419,1161,1184]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="18">Trimuricea merguiensis</emphasis>
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further differs in having coenenchymal spindles with a blunt end, and
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<emphasis id="B953EA979901D97ED08C9FFD84893389" box="[1243,1257,1161,1184]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="18">T</emphasis>
.
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in having coenenchymal sclerites that include small, irregularly forms and triradiates and crosses.
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<paragraph id="8B9836859901D97ED4C09FBB833333C1" blockId="17.[151,1437,151,1257]" box="[151,851,1231,1257]" pageId="17" pageNumber="18">This is the only species of the genus having coloured sclerites.</paragraph>
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