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Remarks |
Colony: one colony.
This specimen was identified as Eunephthya spiculosa Kükenthal (= Paraspongodes spiculosa) by Utinomi (1951, 1960). According to Utinomi’s paper, there was another label, “Eunephthya spiculosa det. K. Kinoshita. Collected by K. Aoki”, which I could not find. However, the type specimens of P. spiculosa have slender rods peculiar to the genus Scleronephthya in the polyps according to the figures of the original description (Kükenthal, 1906), and my preliminary studies on the type specimen confirm this (Imahara, unpublished). It seems that this specimen belongs to the genus Paraspongodes or Chromonephthea on account of the polyps not having have these peculiar slender rods.
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