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<emphasis id="B97E0257CA795A76F0ECFB07FE9D6DDC" bold="true" box="[151,369,1230,1256]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Euplexaura plana</emphasis>
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(
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d, 17)
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<emphasis id="B97E0257CA795A76F0ECFAF7FEE16C6C" bold="true" box="[151,269,1342,1368]" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Material:</emphasis>
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,
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Coel. 38778, Farur Island, coll. S.A. Mohtarami, 2006.
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<emphasis id="B97E0257CA795A76F0BDFAACFEB26C4B" bold="true" box="[198,350,1381,1407]" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Description.</emphasis>
The
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is
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high and
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wide (
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d). The colony is branched in one plane and the end branches especially are flattened in the plane of branching. On large parts of the colony the coenenchyme is lacking; the calyces are low, dome-shaped.
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The polyps have points with flattened spindles, up to
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long (
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a). A collaret is not present.
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The surface layer of the branch has blunt ellipsoids and spindles, up to
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long, with complex tubercles (
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b). Several of them with one side less tuberculate.
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The lower layer has sclerites similar to those of the surface layer, but they are less tuberculate, and smaller, up to
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long (
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c).
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<emphasis id="B97E0257CA795A76F0BEF953FECD6F80" bold="true" box="[197,289,1690,1716]" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Colour.</emphasis>
Alive, the colony was pinkish in colour, preserved it is white. Sclerites are colourless.
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<emphasis id="B97E0257CA795A76F0BEF909FEBD6FEE" bold="true" box="[197,337,1728,1754]" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Etymology.</emphasis>
The species name is from the Latin
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, flat, referring to the flattened branches.
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<emphasis id="B97E0257CA795A76F0BEF92EFED26E35" bold="true" box="[197,318,1767,1793]" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Remarks.</emphasis>
Most
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<emphasis id="B97E0257CA795A76F1F2F921FDFE6E35" box="[393,530,1768,1793]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Euplexaura</emphasis>
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species have rather small sclerites.
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mentioned only four species with coenenchymal sclerites
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long, or more:
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, described from the Aru Islands,
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, with sclerites up to
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long;
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, from
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, with sclerites up to
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long;
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<emphasis id="B97E0257CA795A76F254F895FD446E41" box="[559,680,1884,1909]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">E. robusta</emphasis>
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from
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long;
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<emphasis id="B97E0257CA795A76F0ECF84AFEDD6EA8" box="[151,305,1923,1948]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">E. kukenthali</emphasis>
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from NW
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, with spindles up to
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long. All these four species show no flattened branches and are therefore considered to be different species.
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<emphasis id="B97E0257CA795A76F0BEF819FEBB6EDD" box="[197,343,2000,2025]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">E. rhipidalis</emphasis>
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, originally described from
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, does have flattened branches, and was recorded to occur in the nearby Red Sea (
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). Grasshoff re-examined the
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specimen of
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<emphasis id="B97E0257CA7A5A75F5F8FF51FEE169EC" italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="28">E. rhipidalis</emphasis>
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and observed this species actually has sclerites with a wide range of size, up to
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long, instead of the
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long measured by Studer, and being close to the
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reported for
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.
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<emphasis id="B97E0257CA785A77F0ECF873FECB6EE6" bold="true" box="[151,295,1978,2002]" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">FIGURE 17.</emphasis>
RMNH Coel. 38778, holotype of
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<emphasis id="B97E0257CA785A77F2E1F873FCB76EE5" box="[666,859,1978,2001]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">Euplexaura plana</emphasis>
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: a, polyp spindles; b, ellipsoids and spindles of surface layer; c, spindles of the subsurface layer. Scale at b only applies to b.
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<emphasis id="B97E0257CA7B5A74F0ECF87FFECB6EFA" bold="true" box="[151,295,1974,1998]" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">FIGURE 18.</emphasis>
RMNH Coel. 6040,
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<emphasis id="B97E0257CA7B5A74F271F87FFD1A6EF9" box="[522,758,1974,1997]" italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">Euplexaura rhipidalis</emphasis>
Studer, 1894
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: a, tentacle rods; b, collaret and point spindles; c, ellipsoids and spindles of surface layer; d, spindles of the subsurface layer. Scale at d also applies to a.
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Because of the similarities in colony shape and sclerite size between
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<emphasis id="B97E0257CA7A5A75F464FEC5FB6B6811" box="[1055,1159,268,293]" italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="28">E. plana</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="B97E0257CA7A5A75F4B3FEC5FAB26811" box="[1224,1374,268,293]" italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="28">E. rhipidalis</emphasis>
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, and because the drawings of sclerites presented by Grasshoff are rather schematic, we decided to make extra SEM photographs of RMNH Coel. 6040, a specimen identified by
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as
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<emphasis id="B97E0257CA7A5A75F4EDFE9EFA896844" box="[1174,1381,343,368]" italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="28">Muricella tenera</emphasis>
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, but synonymized with
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<emphasis id="B97E0257CA7A5A75F10DFEB5FDE468A1" box="[374,520,380,405]" italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="28">E. rhipidalis</emphasis>
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by
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. RMNH Coel. 6040 showed even longer blunt ellipsoids and spindles than recorded by Grasshoff for
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<emphasis id="B97E0257CA7A5A75F2DAFE68FCDF688E" box="[673,819,417,442]" italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="28">E. rhipidalis</emphasis>
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, viz. up to
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long (
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c); like in
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<emphasis id="B97E0257CA7A5A75F543FE68FA70688E" box="[1336,1436,417,442]" italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="28">E. plana</emphasis>
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several of them with one side less tuberculate. However, the interior sclerites of RMNH Coel. 6040 (
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d) are different from those of
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<emphasis id="B97E0257CA7A5A75F1A0FE25FDAC6B31" box="[475,576,492,517]" italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="28">E. plana</emphasis>
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(
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c), they have less developed tubercles, and quite some sclerites have pointed ends. Strangely, sclerites like that were not at all depicted by Grasshoff. Because of the differently shaped interior sclerites, a character also present in the below described
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<emphasis id="B97E0257CA7A5A75F401FDFEFAE86B64" box="[1146,1284,567,592]" italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="28">Euplexaura</emphasis>
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spp. and the much more flattened branches than in
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<emphasis id="B97E0257CA7A5A75F20AFD95FCE76B41" box="[625,779,604,629]" italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="28">E. rhipidalis</emphasis>
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we decided to describe the present material as a new species.
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