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MGS
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cruise MGS35 (Station MGS-35A-BD21),
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.
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.
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The specimen was collected along with
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of carnivorous sponges;
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of deepsea coral,
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of brittle stars, shrimps; and dead gastropod shells from medium-grained basalt rocky bottom with thick Fe-Mn crust.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[151,278,1942,1966]" pageId="2" pageNumber="233">FIGURE 1.</emphasis>
The map shows the collection site of
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in the Central Indian Ridge. The black line indicates the ridge axis.
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The color of colonies ranges from yellowish-brown to dark brown or black; with their ends forming white or cream polyps.
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is known only for its
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locality in the seamounts of the Central Indian Ridge system.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,338,295,321]" pageId="3" pageNumber="234">Etymology:</emphasis>
The specific name refers to the
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locality of the Indian Ocean Ridge. Gender is feminine.
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Coral colonies are inter-connected with polyps by ribbon
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like stolon expanding in irregular patterns on the surface of a dead coral (
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), and budding of secondary polyps (
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like stolon (
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in width).
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.
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NCPOR/HYD-CIR/0048 A, preserved colonies on the dead
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coral; B, polyps; C, budding of secondary polyps; D, tentacles.
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The
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is about
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tall and
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in diameter, with eight polyps attached (
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). Fully retracted polyps are up to
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in width.
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Sclerites in the polyp (
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). The stolon is ribbon-shaped, with sclerites longitudinally arranged along the thin basal stolon (
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). The sclerites in the tentacles and middle of the neck zone are transversely set (
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).
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sclerites are narrow and stellate plates; cross-like forms with slightly tubercular ornamentation; stellate plates (0.19
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wide); cross-like sclerites (
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wide); smaller crosses, all of them with tubercular ornamentation (
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,336,1890,1916]" pageId="3" pageNumber="234">Pharyngeal</emphasis>
sclerites are small warty plates (
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long,
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mm
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,325,1926,1952]" pageId="3" pageNumber="234">Neck zone</emphasis>
sclerites are short, blunt rods, crosses with tubercular ornamentation; 0.16
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in length, 0.05
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wide; some crosses (
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[151,274,1302,1326]" pageId="4" pageNumber="235">FIGURE 3.</emphasis>
Illustration of a
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NCPOR/HYD-CIR/0048, A-C, polyp indicating the locations and types of sclerites; D, arrangement of sclerites in the calyx wall region; E, ribbon-like stolon.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[151,271,1931,1955]" pageId="4" pageNumber="235">FIGURE 4</emphasis>
.
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NCPOR/HYD-CIR/0048, arrangement of sclerites in the neck zone. A, is the neck zone; B, is towards tentacles, after removal of the soft tissue; C, the arrangement of the sclerites in the tentacle after removal of the soft tissue.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[151,270,1943,1967]" pageId="5" pageNumber="236">FIGURE 5</emphasis>
. Sclerites of
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NCPOR/HYD-CIR/0048 A, tentacles with stellate plates, blunt rods with slightly tubercular ornamentation; B, pharyngeal with blunt rods.
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I
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sclerites are irregular-shaped, branched rods with tubercular ornamentation (
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long,
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wide) (
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[151,273,1782,1806]" pageId="6" pageNumber="237">FIGURE 6</emphasis>
. Sclerites of
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NCPOR/HYD-CIR/0048 A, irregularly shaped with dense tubercular ornamentation in a neck zone; B, intrusion tissue with branched forms with dense tubercular ornamentation
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,329,1888,1915]" pageId="6" pageNumber="237">Calyx wall</emphasis>
sclerites are irregular-shaped; crosses with dense tubercular ornamentation (0.45
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,275,1960,1986]" pageId="6" pageNumber="237">Stolon</emphasis>
sclerites are smooth to slightly warty plate,crosses; irregular-shaped with slightly tubercular ornamentation (0.40
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long 0.42
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,315,151,177]" pageId="7" pageNumber="238">Remarks.</emphasis>
The sclerome found in
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<emphasis box="[915,1015,259,285]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="238">Telestula</emphasis>
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with an evident abundance of warty, irregular, and cylinder-like forms of small flattened ovals.
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<emphasis box="[817,1029,295,321]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="238">Telestula ridgensis</emphasis>
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is morphologically closely related to
<emphasis box="[259,538,331,357]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="238">
<taxonomicName authorityName="Madsen" authorityYear="1944" box="[259,534,331,357]" class="Anthozoa" family="Clavulariidae" genus="Telestula" kingdom="Animalia" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="7" pageNumber="238" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="septentrionalis">Telestula septentrionalis</taxonomicName>
,
</emphasis>
<taxonomicName authorityName="Weinberg" authorityYear="1990" box="[543,679,331,357]" class="Anthozoa" family="Clavulariidae" genus="Telestula" isUncertain="true" kingdom="Animalia" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="7" pageNumber="238" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="batoni">
<emphasis box="[543,559,331,356]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="238">T</emphasis>
. cf.
<emphasis box="[605,679,331,357]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="238">batoni</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis box="[679,683,331,357]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="238">,</emphasis>
and
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Nutting" baseAuthorityYear="1908" box="[734,921,331,357]" class="Anthozoa" family="Clavulariidae" genus="Telestula" isUncertain="true" kingdom="Animalia" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="7" pageNumber="238" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="spiculicula">
<emphasis box="[734,750,331,356]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="238">T</emphasis>
. cf.
<emphasis box="[795,921,331,357]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="238">spiculicula</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis box="[922,926,331,357]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="238">.</emphasis>
According to
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species,
<taxonomicName authorityName="Wright &amp; Studer" authorityYear="1889" box="[151,260,367,393]" class="Anthozoa" family="Clavulariidae" genus="Telestula" kingdom="Animalia" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="7" pageNumber="238" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="tubaria">
<emphasis box="[151,260,367,393]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="238">T. tubaria</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has eight chevrons of small sclerites in the neck region and eight longitudinal ridges of sclerites in a calyx wall. However,
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Thomson &amp; Dean" baseAuthorityYear="1931" box="[326,452,403,429]" class="Anthozoa" family="Clavulariidae" genus="Telestula" kingdom="Animalia" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="7" pageNumber="238" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="versluysi">
<emphasis box="[326,452,403,429]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="238">T. versluysi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has densely tuberculate rounded spindles from the calyx wall and irregular spindles from the stolon (
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).
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Thomson &amp; Dean" baseAuthorityYear="1931" box="[466,586,439,464]" class="Anthozoa" family="Clavulariidae" genus="Telestula" kingdom="Animalia" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="7" pageNumber="238" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="mosaica">
<emphasis box="[466,586,439,464]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="238">T. mosaica</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has some arrowhead-like sclerites. The sclerites of
<taxonomicName authorityName="Weinberg" authorityYear="1990" box="[1155,1313,439,465]" class="Anthozoa" family="Clavulariidae" genus="Telestula" kingdom="Animalia" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="7" pageNumber="238" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="kuekenthali">
<emphasis box="[1155,1171,439,464]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="238">T</emphasis>
.
<emphasis box="[1184,1313,439,465]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="238">kuekenthali</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
have loose polyps, plump, coarsely tuberculate spindles from the calyx wall, irregular spindles, and cross-shaped sclerites from the top of the polyp (
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<emphasis box="[569,769,511,537]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="238">
).
<taxonomicName authorityName="Weinberg" authorityYear="1990" box="[595,769,511,537]" class="Anthozoa" family="Clavulariidae" genus="Telestula" kingdom="Animalia" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="7" pageNumber="238" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="stocki">Telestula stocki</taxonomicName>
</emphasis>
has plates on top of tentacles, sparse long spindles, warty spindles with complex tubercles, rods from stolon, and plump (
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).
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