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<emphasis id="33917554FFC1FF8FFE2EB225A061FD03" bold="true" box="[405,861,639,663]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="2505">Holothuria (Mertensiothuria) papillifera</emphasis>
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Mortensen, 1938: 55, pl. XI, figures 13.
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<emphasis id="33917554FFC1FF8FFE82B286A1EDFD65" box="[313,721,732,753]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="2505">Holothuria (Mertensiothuria) papillifera</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="33917554FFC1FF8FFEDAB377A134FCD1" box="[353,520,813,837]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="2505">Original name.</emphasis>
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Heding
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Mortensen, 1938.
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<emphasis id="33917554FFC1FF8FFEDAB317A102FCF1" box="[353,574,845,869]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="2505">Name-bearing type.</emphasis>
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series ZM Karaf no. 85,
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ZM Karaf no. 85/2,3.
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locality.
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.
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<emphasis id="33917554FFC1FF8FFEDAB397A136FC71" box="[353,522,973,997]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="2505">Current status.</emphasis>
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Heding
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Mortensen, 1938.
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ZM
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.
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<emphasis id="33917554FFC1FF8FFEDAB477A2D4FBD0" box="[353,488,1069,1092]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="2505">Description.</emphasis>
Medium size to large specimens (
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225×
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and 160×
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); body club-shaped, narrow anteriorly, much larger posteriorly. Colour of living specimen uniform greyish brown. Colour in alcohol brown dorsally (figure 12H), beige to light brown ventrally (figure 12K). Mouth ventral, anus terminal. Twenty short, yellowish tentacles surrounded by a circle of papillae. Dorsally, numerous, large conical papillae without alignment (figure 12J). Ventrally, tube feet densely crowded in the ambulacral as well as in the interambulacral areas (figure 12J).
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Calcareous ring (figure 7A) typical of the subgenus
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; two long Polian vesicles (one-sixth of body length) and two very short (±2% of body length), contorted stone canals (figure 7B); tentacle ampullae very short (22.5% body length). Cuvierian tubules numerous, whitish, very thin.
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m across, round to quadrangular (figure 7C), perforated by four central and 910 peripheral holes; four pillars united by one cross-beam and ending in a small crown of spines; table height ±
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m. Buttons regular with three to five pairs of holes (three pairs being the most frequent),
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m long (figure 7D); a few irregular buttons (figure 7E). In the ventral body wall same types of ossicle, tables (figure 7F) being more numerous and buttons (figure 7G) smaller than dorsally. At the base of the dorsal papillae same ossicles as in the dorsal body wall. At the top of the papillae, tables (figure 7H), buttons (figure 7J) generally with three pairs of holes and rods,
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m long, with lateral processes (figure 7K). In the dorsal papillae of the
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m to 95×
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m (figure 8B), and small tables (figure 8C),
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long, ossicles of the tube feet somewhat larger, especially the regular and irregular perforated plates (figure 8D and E, respectively). In the tentacles rods, spiny at the extremities (figure 8F, G),
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m long, C- or S-shape (figure 8H). In the longitudinal muscles numerous regular to irregular C-shape and O-ring ossicles (figure 8J),
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1065
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m long.
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F. 7.
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<emphasis id="33917554FFC6FF88FE2FB596A017FA75" box="[404,811,1484,1505]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="2506">Holothuria (Mertensiothuria) papillifera</emphasis>
Heding
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<emphasis id="33917554FFC6FF88FC3FB597A0AAFA76" box="[900,918,1485,1506]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="2506">in</emphasis>
Mortensen, 1938. (A) Calcareous ring (r, radial plate; ir, interradial plate) (L=225 mm); (B) stone canal (L=225 mm); (C) tables of dorsal body wall (L=225 mm); (D) regular buttons of dorsal body wall (L=225 mm); (E) irregular buttons of dorsal body wall (L=225 mm); (F) tables of ventral body wall (L=225 mm); (G) buttons of ventral body wall (L=225 mm); (H) tables of top of dorsal papillae (L=225 mm); (J) buttons of top of dorsal papillae (L= 225 mm); (K) rods of top of dorsal papillae (L=225 mm); (L) rods of top of dorsal papillae (L=165 mm); (M) buttons of tube feet (L=225 mm). Scale bars: (A, B) 5 mm; (CJ, M) 50
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m; (K, L) 100
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m.
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F. 8.
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<emphasis id="33917554FFC7FF89FE2EB495A00DFB70" box="[405,817,1231,1252]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="2507">Holothuria (Mertensiothuria) papillifera</emphasis>
Heding
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<emphasis id="33917554FFC7FF89FC34B48AA09DFB71" box="[911,929,1232,1253]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="2507">in</emphasis>
Mortensen, 1938. (A) Irregular perforated plates of ventral tube feet (L=225 mm); (B) regular perforated plates of ventral tube feet (L=225 mm); (C) tables of ventral tube feet (L=225 mm); (D) regular perforated plate of ventral tube feet (L=165 mm); (E) irregular perforated plates of ventral tube feet (L=165 mm); (FH) rods of tentacles (L=225 mm); (J) ossicles of longitudinal muscles (L=225 mm). Scale bars: (F) 200
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m; (AE, GJ) 50
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m.
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<emphasis id="33917554FFC4FF8AFEDAB0AAA2E9FE93" box="[353,469,240,263]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="2508">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
Present note.
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<emphasis id="33917554FFC4FF8AFEDAB155A2FEFEB3" box="[353,450,271,295]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="2508">Ecology.</emphasis>
Unknown.
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<emphasis id="33917554FFC4FF8AFEDAB175A1B0FED3" box="[353,652,303,327]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="2508">Geographical distribution.</emphasis>
Up to now only recorded from the
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(Ghardaqa, Abu Sadaf and Abu Fanadir).
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<emphasis id="33917554FFC4FF8AFEDAB135A10FFE13" box="[353,563,367,391]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="2508">Proposed status.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="33917554FFC4FF8AFDF6B135A77BFE13" box="[589,1095,367,391]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="2508">Holothuria (Mertensiothuria) papillifera</emphasis>
Heding
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<emphasis id="33917554FFC4FF8AFB5BB12AA7C8FE13" box="[1248,1268,368,391]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="2508">in</emphasis>
Mortensen, 1938.
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<emphasis id="33917554FFC4FF8AFEDAB1F5A2E2FE52" box="[353,478,431,454]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="2508">Comments.</emphasis>
The original description of
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<emphasis id="33917554FFC4FF8AFC89B1EAA737FE53" box="[818,1035,431,455]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="2508">H. (M.) papillifera</emphasis>
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given by Heding (
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Mortensen, 1938) in a footnote (without any illustration) is very succinct. Since the type series is available in the collection of the ZM, we take the opportunity to describe and illustrate the species, and to designate a
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and
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.
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Heding (
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Mortensen, 1938) suggested that
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<emphasis id="33917554FFC4FF8AFCDFB275A702FDD2" box="[868,1086,558,582]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="2508">H. (M.) papillifera</emphasis>
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is very close to
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<emphasis id="33917554FFC4FF8AFE82B215A11EFDF2" box="[313,546,590,614]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="2508">H. (M.) leucospilota</emphasis>
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. Rowe (1969) suggested it is possibly conspecific with
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<emphasis id="33917554FFC4FF8AFB2EB215A287FD12" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="2508">H. (M.) leucospilota</emphasis>
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. Examination of the
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series confirms that both species are close to each other. Moreover, presence or absence of Cuvierian tubules is no longer a distinctive character (Heding
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Mortensen, 1938) since both species possess them. The main characters separating
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<emphasis id="33917554FFC4FF8AFD0BB295A0B0FD72" box="[688,908,718,742]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="2508">H. (M.) papillifera</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
from
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<emphasis id="33917554FFC4FF8AFC63B295A7FAFD72" box="[984,1222,718,742]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="2508">H. (M.) leucospilota</emphasis>
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are the greyish brown colour of the body wall, the long, soft dorsal papillae, the tables with a smooth disc margin, a very narrow crown of spines at the top of the tables, the rods of the dorsal papillae with lateral perforated processes and the presence of ossicles in the tentacles.
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