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<emphasis id="65CFEA89FF9BFFB194A01A76F791FBDF" bold="true" box="[151,418,1119,1145]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="334">Thysanozoon brocchii</emphasis>
(Risso, 1818)
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(
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,
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)
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locality
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.
<collectingCountry id="2FAC760BFF9BFFB1950B1AE0F743FB44" box="[316,368,1225,1250]" name="Italy" pageId="9" pageNumber="334">Italy</collectingCountry>
(
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)
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<emphasis id="65CFEA89FF9BFFB194F01AC4F7B3FAA0" bold="true" box="[199,384,1261,1286]" pageId="9" pageNumber="334">Other localities</emphasis>
. Cosmopolitan, temperate to cold seas, reported from both the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans (
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Bahia
<emphasis id="65CFEA89FF9BFFB194DF1B3BF712FA8C" box="[232,289,1297,1322]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="334">et al.</emphasis>
2012
</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="332A4B6AFF9BFFB195591B3BF403FA8C" author="Brusa" box="[366,560,1297,1322]" pageId="9" pageNumber="334" refString="Brusa, F., Damborenea, C. &amp; Quiroga, S. (2009) First records of Pseudocerotidae (Platyhelminthes: Polycladida: Cotylea) from Patagonia, Argentina. Zootaxa, 2283, 51 - 59." type="journal article" year="2009">
Brusa
<emphasis id="65CFEA89FF9BFFB195811B3BF7DCFA8C" box="[438,495,1297,1322]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="334">et al.</emphasis>
2009
</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="332A4B6AFF9BFFB1960B1B3BF48BFA8C" author="Lang" box="[572,696,1298,1322]" pageId="9" pageNumber="334" refString="Lang, A. (1884) Fauna und Flora des Golfes von Neapel. Monogr. 11. Die Polycladen (Seeplanarien) des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeresabschnitte. Engelmann, Leipzig, 668 pp. [Germany]" type="book" year="1884">Lang 1884</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="332A4B6AFF9BFFB196F31B3BF5E2FA8C" author="Marcus" box="[708,977,1297,1322]" pageId="9" pageNumber="334" refString="Marcus, E. &amp; Marcus, E. (1968) Polycladida from Curacao and Faunistically Related Regions. In: Studies on the Fauna of Curacao and other Caribbean Islands, 1 - 133." type="book chapter" year="1968">Marcus &amp; Marcus 1968</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="332A4B6AFF9BFFB197EA1B38F24EFA8C" author="Prudhoe" box="[989,1149,1297,1322]" pageId="9" pageNumber="334" refString="Prudhoe, S. (1989) Polyclad turbellarians recorded from African waters. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), 55, 47 - 96." type="journal article" year="1989">Prudhoe 1989</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="332A4B6AFF9BFFB190BF1B38F3B5FA8C" author="Yeri" box="[1160,1414,1297,1322]" pageId="9" pageNumber="334" refString="Yeri, M. &amp; Kaburaki, T. (1918) Description of some Japanese polyclad turbellaria. The Journal of the College of Science, Imperial University of Tokyo, 39 3 - 58." type="journal article" year="1918">Yeri &amp; Kaburaki 1918</bibRefCitation>
).
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Location in
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.
</emphasis>
Specimens of
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<emphasis id="65CFEA89FF9BFFB196011B1CF51EFAE8" box="[566,813,1333,1358]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="334">Thysanozoon brocchii</emphasis>
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in this study were collected from the Persian Gulf (
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stations 12, 31, 33 and Table 1), and from the Gulf of
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(
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station 36 and Table 1). We collected our specimens mainly under stones and pebbles in close association with didemnid ascidians (
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C).
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<emphasis id="65CFEA89FF9BFFB194F01B88F47CFA1C" bold="true" box="[199,591,1441,1466]" pageId="9" pageNumber="334">Material examined and localities</emphasis>
(Table 1). Fourteen specimens collected: Two mature specimens as
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platy
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HS collected from Chiruyeh station, the Persian Gulf (
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station 12); four specimens as
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platy 1280 S (containing two specimens) and
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platy 1277 S collected from Chiruyeh station; eight specimens
<collectionCode id="31AAAE5EFF9BFFB194A01827F6D3F980" box="[151,224,1550,1574]" pageId="9" pageNumber="334">ZUTC</collectionCode>
platy 1278 S, collected from Cinema- Darya station (
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station 33) and
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platy 1279 S, collected from Shib- Deraz station (
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station 31). The following description is based on observations from
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platy 1276, unless otherwise stated.
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<emphasis id="65CFEA89FF9BFFB194F01850F790F934" bold="true" box="[199,419,1657,1682]" pageId="9" pageNumber="334">Generic diagnosis.</emphasis>
Dorsal region adorned with conical papillae, papillae become smaller toward the margin; male apparatus doubled (
<figureCitation id="CF802A1EFF9BFFB1958718B4F7C7F910" box="[432,500,1693,1718]" captionStart="FIGURE 6" captionStartId="10.[151,250,1479,1501]" captionTargetBox="[157,1430,489,1453]" captionTargetId="figure@10.[152,1435,481,1457]" captionTargetPageId="10" captionText="FIGURE 6. Thysanozoon brocchii: (A) Living specimens (B) drawing of a whole cleared specimen (C) tentacles with eyes (D) reconstruction of the male and female reproductive systems. Abbreviations: cfa, ciliated female atrium; cg, cement glands; cma, ciliated male atrium; fp, female pore; i, intestine; ml, muscular layer; mp, male pore; ph, pharynx; pp, penis papilla; pv, prostatic vesicle; s, stylet; su, sucker; sv, seminal vesicle; ts, testis; vd, vas deferens." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/249713/files/figure.png" pageId="9" pageNumber="334">Fig. 6</figureCitation>
A).
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<emphasis id="65CFEA89FF9BFFB194F018E8F76AF97C" bold="true" box="[199,345,1729,1754]" pageId="9" pageNumber="334">Description.</emphasis>
<emphasis id="65CFEA89FF9BFFB1955618E8F46BF97C" box="[353,600,1729,1754]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="334">External morphology.</emphasis>
Body long, oval, soft and delicate, with slightly undulating margin (
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A); the average size of the fixed specimens is 15.2 × 12.6 (SE± 1.4 ×
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), largest specimen 17.3 × 13.4 (ZUTC platy 1278). Dorsal surface of living specimens purplish cream or grey, with whitish or cream longitudinal median line, a purple marginal band (
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A); papillae conical, slender, dark grayish or brownish with a tint of purple, except at the base of papilla which is colorless, with pointed and mostly dark apical part, a few papillae with white pointed tips, papilla size ranges from 850 µm (ZUTC platy 1275) to
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, becoming larger medially, smaller towards margin and finally disappearing near the margin; in some of the specimens examined, papillae were more crowded on the median line of body (
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A). Marginal tentacles
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long, with white tips (
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A, C). Cerebral eyespots horseshoe shaped, with 42 to 65 eyes, about
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from the anterior margin (
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C); the ventral pseudo-tentacular eyes are more numerous, about 5070 ocelli per tentacle, arranged in four separate clusters, the dorsal pseudo-tentacular eyes are fewer, 2532 ocelli, in two clusters (
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C). Ventral surface translucent white, two male gonopores positioned immediately behind the pharynx, on both sides of the mid-ventral line; female gonopore immediately posterior to male gonopores, 500 µm apart (ZUTC platy 1275,
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B). The ventral body wall is about 50 µm thick (
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C), thicker than the dorsal wall, with more developed muscular fibers including an outer longitudinal layer, followed by circular fibers and a well-developed innermost layer of diagonal muscles.
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<emphasis id="65CFEA89FF98FFB294A01BEEF721FA7A" bold="true" box="[151,274,1479,1501]" pageId="10" pageNumber="335">FIGURE 6.</emphasis>
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: (A) Living specimens (B) drawing of a whole cleared specimen (C) tentacles with eyes (D) reconstruction of the male and female reproductive systems. Abbreviations: cfa, ciliated female atrium; cg, cement glands; cma, ciliated male atrium; fp, female pore; i, intestine; ml, muscular layer; mp, male pore; ph, pharynx; pp, penis papilla; pv, prostatic vesicle; s, stylet; su, sucker; sv, seminal vesicle; ts, testis; vd, vas deferens.
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<emphasis id="65CFEA89FF98FFB294F01849F7E8F9DE" box="[199,475,1632,1657]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="335">Reproductive structures.</emphasis>
In ventral view, vasa deferentia appear as two coiled strips, parallel to mid-ventral line (
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B), in sagittal view, each entering into the seminal vesicle from the ventral surface (
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D). Male structures double, the seminal vesicle oval, large (
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D, 7A), ranging from 450 Μm long × 250 Μm wide (ZUTC platy 1275) to 730 Μm × 370 Μm (ZUTC platy 1276); prostatic vesicle free and small, somewhat round and muscular, situated ventrally to the large seminal vesicle (
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D, 7A), ranging from 93 Μm × 55 Μm (ZUTC platy 1275) to 140 Μm × 100 Μm (ZUTC platy 1276); penis stylet (
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B), ranging from 110 µm × 80 µm (ZUTC platy 1275) to 126 µm × 91 µm (ZUTC platy 1276), stylet length to width ratio 1: 1.38. Numerous testes scattered ventrally in two rows (
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C), 50 Μm in diameter. Female atrium, typical of pseudocerotids, long, oriented backwards and surrounded by cement glands (
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D, 7B); uteri branched and dorsal to male structures.
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<emphasis id="65CFEA89FF98FFB294F0198DF708F81B" bold="true" box="[199,315,1956,1981]" pageId="10" pageNumber="335">Remarks.</emphasis>
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established the genus
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, within the family
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. Occasionally, species determinations within the genus
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can be made using coloration and color pattern (
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Bolaños
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). The presence of the two external characters such as a papillated dorsal surface (unlike
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) and two male gonopores (unlike
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with one male pore) placed these worms in this genus.
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is a cosmopolitan species distributed from the temperate to cold seas in both the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans (
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Bahia
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Brusa
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Bulnes
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;
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;
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).
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With regard to the dorsal color, the species described here (
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A) agrees well with the description provided by
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, but differs from the description of
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Bahia
<emphasis id="65CFEA89FF99FFB397AA1F58F5FCFE2E" box="[925,975,367,392]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="336">et al</emphasis>
. (2012)
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and by Bursa
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. (2009). Their specimens were depicted as having a brown to yellowish dorsal region with a median longitudinal cream line, while those described here are purplish cream with a purple marginal band.
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<emphasis id="65CFEA89FF99FFB394F01FF5F768FE53" box="[199,347,476,501]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="336">Thysanozoon</emphasis>
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sp. has been previously reported by
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Khalili
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(2009)
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from
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Island, Persian Gulf. Based on the figures 811 provided by
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Khalili
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. (2009)
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, we believe that what they have illustrated might have been
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<emphasis id="65CFEA89FF99FFB391B01C28F6C0FD9B" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="336">T. brocchii</emphasis>
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, particularly because we found specimens of that species from the same localities. Unlike the study of
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Khalili
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. (2009)
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that was limited only to one locality in the Persian Gulf, we expanded our sampling stations to the
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coastline of the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of
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).
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was found in two stations of the Persian Gulf (
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station 31&amp; 33) and one station in the Gulf of
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(
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station 36). We found our specimens mostly associated with didemnid ascidians (
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C), an association previously noted by
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Bahia
<emphasis id="65CFEA89FF99FFB3915E1C9CF3AFFD6B" box="[1385,1436,692,717]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="336">et al</emphasis>
(2012)
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. We hereby report
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<emphasis id="65CFEA89FF99FFB395F71CF0F40AFD56" box="[448,569,727,752]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="336">T. brocchii</emphasis>
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from the tropical Western Indo-Pacific, and from
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coastal waters of the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of
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, for the first time.
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