Turbo-taxonomy: 21 new species of Myzostomida (Annelida)
Author
Summers, Mindi M.
Author
Al-Hakim, Iin Inayat
Author
Rouse, Greg W.
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Zootaxa
2014
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journal article
42367
10.11646/zootaxa.3873.4.1
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Mesomyzostoma lanterbecqae
n. sp.
Summers & Rouse
Fig.
2
I–L
Holotype
:
SIO-BIC A3651
hologenophore
(1 spm: ½—in 70% ethanol after formalin fixation; ½—95% ethanol). Padoz Reef, Madang Harbor,
Papua New Guinea
(
5° 9' 34.8006"S
,
145° 48' 46.2096"W
),
5–
20 m
. Collected using scuba on
27 November 2012
by MMS and GWR. Genbank (COI—KM014176).
Host.
Clarkcomanthus alternans
(Carpenter)
(
Comatulidae
,
Comatulida
, Crinoidea). MNHN-IE-2013-8114 (dried voucher); SIO-BIC E5879 (tissue subsample in 95% ethanol). Genbank (COI—KM491773).
Paratypes
:
SIO-BIC A3652
syngenophores
(3 spms: 2—in 70% ethanol after formalin fixation; 2—95% ethanol). Same location as
holotype
. Genbank (COI—KM491743). Host:
Clarkcomanthus mirabilis
(Rowe et al.)
, MNHN-IE-2013-8174 (dried voucher) & SIO-BIC E5880 (tissue subsample in 95% ethanol); Genbank (COI—KM491774). SIO-BIC A3653
syngenophores
(2 spms: 95% ethanol). South Padoz Reef, Madang Harbor,
Papua New Guinea
(
5° 9' 43.1994"S
,
145° 48' 59.3922"W
),
5–
20 m
. Collected using scuba on
1 December 2012
. Genbank (COI—KM491744). Host:
Comatella nigra
(Carpenter)
, MNHN-IE-2013-8064 (dried voucher) & SIO- BIC E5891 (tissue subsample in 95% ethanol); Genbank (COI—KM491775).
Etymology.
Named for Deborah Lanterbecq, who first sequenced DNA from a
Mesomyzostoma
and led the work resulting in the first molecular phylogeny for myzostomids (
Lanterbecq
et al.
2006
).
Diagnosis and description.
Located within host’s coelom.
Holotype
body thin and elongate. Length ~
2.5 mm
following fixation (specimen cut and curled) [
paratypes
2–4 mm
]. Body margin acirrate. Mouth and cloaca terminal. Five pairs of small parapodia, with large hooks (
Fig. 2
L). Color cream in life, white in preservative.
Remarks.
There are nine other species of
Mesomyzostoma
—two described,
Mesomyzostoma katoi
Okada, 1933
and
Mesomyzostoma reichenspergeri
Remscheid, 1918
, and four currently being described Eeckhaut
et al.
(
in prep
) and three undescribed species in
Summers & Rouse (2014)
. All of these species have a similar body form and occupy the coelom and/or gonads of feather star crinoids. The species are best distinguished by molecular data, followed by host use. This is likely a highly undersampled lifestyle due to the requirement of dissection.