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<mods:title>Ecotone shifts in southern Madagascar: first barcoding data and six new species of the endemic millipede genus Riotintobolus (Spirobolida, Pachybolidae)</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Wesener, Thomas</mods:namePart>
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 9" captionStartId="F9" captionText="Figure 9. Riotintobolus antafoky sp. nov., holotype (CASENT 9032794) A anterior gonopod, anterior view B anterior gonopod, posterior view C telopodite of left posterior gonopod, anterior view D left posterior gonopod, posterior view. Abbreviations: Cx = coxite; St = sternite; T = telopodite; x = lateral swollen process; y = opening of efferenct duct; z = apical membranous ' flag'. Not to scale." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.953.53977.figure9" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/436170" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Figure 9</figureCitation>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Material examined.</paragraph>
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: ♂,
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">CASENT 9032794</emphasis>
, MGF007, Madagascar, Province Toliara, Antafoky, 80 m, spiny thicket,
<geoCoordinate degrees="23" direction="south" minutes="29" orientation="latitude" precision="15" seconds="16" value="-23.487778">23°29'16&quot;S</geoCoordinate>
,
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, coll. Frontier project, millipede dig (3 m x 3 m), 14.xi.2001.
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Paratypes</emphasis>
: 1 ♂, 1 ♀,
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">CASENT 9032794</emphasis>
, same data as holotype
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Etymology.</paragraph>
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Antafoky, after the type locality, spiny forest of Antafoky (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 2" captionStartId="F2" captionText="Figure 2. Distribution of the newly described Riotintobolus species, as well as of the still undescribed species. Vegetation marks modified from Moat and Smith 2007." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.953.53977.figure2" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/436163" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">2</figureCitation>
). Noun in apposition.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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<taxonomicName lsidName="R. antafoky" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="antafoky">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">R. antafoky</emphasis>
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sp. nov. shares the flag-like membranous tip of the posterior gonopod with
<taxonomicName lsidName="R. mandenensis" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="mandenensis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">R. mandenensis</emphasis>
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,
<taxonomicName lsidName="R. minutus" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="minutus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">R. minutus</emphasis>
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,
<taxonomicName lsidName="R. aridus" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="aridus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">R. aridus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName lsidName="R. anomalus" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="anomalus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">R. anomalus</emphasis>
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and
<taxonomicName lsidName="R. makayi" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="makayi">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">R. makayi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
sp. nov.
<taxonomicName lsidName="R. antafoky" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="antafoky">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">R. antafoky</emphasis>
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sp. nov. shares the absence of tarsal pads only with
<taxonomicName lsidName="R. bovinus" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="bovinus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">R. bovinus</emphasis>
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sp. nov., and the relatively simple tip of the posterior gonopod only with
<taxonomicName lsidName="R. anomalus" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="anomalus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">R. anomalus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
<taxonomicName lsidName="R. antafoky" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="antafoky">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">R. antafoky</emphasis>
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sp. nov. differs from the sympatric
<taxonomicName lsidName="R. anomalus" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="anomalus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">R. anomalus</emphasis>
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in details of the posterior gonopod, the absence of a dorsal red stripe, the much longer antenna (protruding back to body ring 5), and the much smaller size (
<taxonomicName lsidName="R. anomalus" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="anomalus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">R. anomalus</emphasis>
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males 45 mm long, 4.3 mm wide,
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sp. nov. ca. 33 mm long, 3.2 mm wide).
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Description.</paragraph>
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(holotype): 51+0 segments, ca. 33 mm long (fragmented) and 3.2 mm wide.
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Coloration</emphasis>
: segments grey, with a dark grey posterior margin, ozopore highlighted by a black spot. Head, antennae and legs dark grey.
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Head</emphasis>
: each eye with 34 ommatidia in six rows. Incisura lateralis open. Labrum with standard three irregular teeth and a single row of 10-12 stout marginal setae. Clypeus with two setiferous foveolae on each side. Antennae long, protruding back to segment 5. Terminal antennomere with four large sensory cones located together inside a membranous area. Antennomere 5 and 6 latero-apically with sensilla basiconica.
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Gnathochilarium</emphasis>
: lamellae linguales each with two standard setae located behind one another. Stipites each with three apical setae. Endochilarium not dissected.
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Mandible</emphasis>
: Stipes without projection, well rounded. Gnathal lobe not dissected.
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Collum</emphasis>
: smooth, laterally not protruding as far as ring 2.
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Body rings</emphasis>
: ozopores starting at segment 6, marked by a black spot. Located slightly before, but touching suture between meso- and metazonite. Rings with smooth, but irregular coriaceous surface, ventrally on metazona with transverse ridges.
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Telson</emphasis>
: paraprocts without lips, abundant micropunctation especially towards edges. Epiproct well-rounded, covering, but not reaching above paraproct. Hypoproct inconspicuous.
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Legs</emphasis>
: leg 1 with a large cylindrical coxa, twice as long as other podomeres. Tarsus with three pairs of ventral spines and an apical spine beyond claw. Leg 2 with an elongated coxa and a strongly swollen prefemur. Tarsus with two pairs of ventral spines and a short apical spine. Midbody legs with a rectangular coxa, as long as other podomeres. Each podomere ventrally with a single or a pair of apical setae, tarsus without a tarsal pad, a single apical and two pairs of ventral spines. Length of midbody legs ca. 0.9 times body diameter in males.
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Female</emphasis>
: not investigated.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Male sexual characters</emphasis>
: tarsal pads absent. Coxae 3-7 without coxal processes, but coxae 6 and 7 flattened, rectangular.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Anterior gonopod</emphasis>
sternite massive (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 9" captionStartId="F9" captionText="Figure 9. Riotintobolus antafoky sp. nov., holotype (CASENT 9032794) A anterior gonopod, anterior view B anterior gonopod, posterior view C telopodite of left posterior gonopod, anterior view D left posterior gonopod, posterior view. Abbreviations: Cx = coxite; St = sternite; T = telopodite; x = lateral swollen process; y = opening of efferenct duct; z = apical membranous ' flag'. Not to scale." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.953.53977.figure9" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/436170" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">9A</figureCitation>
), elongated into a wide, well-rounded triangular lobe (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 9" captionStartId="F9" captionText="Figure 9. Riotintobolus antafoky sp. nov., holotype (CASENT 9032794) A anterior gonopod, anterior view B anterior gonopod, posterior view C telopodite of left posterior gonopod, anterior view D left posterior gonopod, posterior view. Abbreviations: Cx = coxite; St = sternite; T = telopodite; x = lateral swollen process; y = opening of efferenct duct; z = apical membranous ' flag'. Not to scale." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.953.53977.figure9" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/436170" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">9A</figureCitation>
). Sternite in anterior view well-visible, without discernible apodemes, protruding almost as high as coxal processes. Coxite with sharp triangular mesal process (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 9" captionStartId="F9" captionText="Figure 9. Riotintobolus antafoky sp. nov., holotype (CASENT 9032794) A anterior gonopod, anterior view B anterior gonopod, posterior view C telopodite of left posterior gonopod, anterior view D left posterior gonopod, posterior view. Abbreviations: Cx = coxite; St = sternite; T = telopodite; x = lateral swollen process; y = opening of efferenct duct; z = apical membranous ' flag'. Not to scale." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.953.53977.figure9" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/436170" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">9A, B</figureCitation>
), upper rim bending forward in anterior view (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 9" captionStartId="F9" captionText="Figure 9. Riotintobolus antafoky sp. nov., holotype (CASENT 9032794) A anterior gonopod, anterior view B anterior gonopod, posterior view C telopodite of left posterior gonopod, anterior view D left posterior gonopod, posterior view. Abbreviations: Cx = coxite; St = sternite; T = telopodite; x = lateral swollen process; y = opening of efferenct duct; z = apical membranous ' flag'. Not to scale." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.953.53977.figure9" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/436170" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">9A</figureCitation>
). Telopodite with strong process arising mesally (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 9" captionStartId="F9" captionText="Figure 9. Riotintobolus antafoky sp. nov., holotype (CASENT 9032794) A anterior gonopod, anterior view B anterior gonopod, posterior view C telopodite of left posterior gonopod, anterior view D left posterior gonopod, posterior view. Abbreviations: Cx = coxite; St = sternite; T = telopodite; x = lateral swollen process; y = opening of efferenct duct; z = apical membranous ' flag'. Not to scale." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.953.53977.figure9" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/436170" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">9B</figureCitation>
), process apically curved with a short triangular projection (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 9" captionStartId="F9" captionText="Figure 9. Riotintobolus antafoky sp. nov., holotype (CASENT 9032794) A anterior gonopod, anterior view B anterior gonopod, posterior view C telopodite of left posterior gonopod, anterior view D left posterior gonopod, posterior view. Abbreviations: Cx = coxite; St = sternite; T = telopodite; x = lateral swollen process; y = opening of efferenct duct; z = apical membranous ' flag'. Not to scale." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.953.53977.figure9" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/436170" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">9A</figureCitation>
), tip well-rounded, protruding above lateral margin of telopodite (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 9" captionStartId="F9" captionText="Figure 9. Riotintobolus antafoky sp. nov., holotype (CASENT 9032794) A anterior gonopod, anterior view B anterior gonopod, posterior view C telopodite of left posterior gonopod, anterior view D left posterior gonopod, posterior view. Abbreviations: Cx = coxite; St = sternite; T = telopodite; x = lateral swollen process; y = opening of efferenct duct; z = apical membranous ' flag'. Not to scale." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.953.53977.figure9" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/436170" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">9B</figureCitation>
).
</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Figure 9.</emphasis>
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Riotintobolus antafoky</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
sp. nov., holotype (CASENT9032794)
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">A</emphasis>
anterior gonopod, anterior view
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">B</emphasis>
anterior gonopod, posterior view
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">C</emphasis>
telopodite of left posterior gonopod, anterior view
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">D</emphasis>
left posterior gonopod, posterior view.
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Abbreviations</emphasis>
: Cx = coxite; St = sternite; T = telopodite; x = lateral swollen process; y = opening of efferenct duct; z = apical membranous
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. Not to scale.
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Posterior gonopods</emphasis>
consisting of two parts, separated by an articulation: a long coxite and a slightly shorter telopodite, efferent duct discharging apically (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 9" captionStartId="F9" captionText="Figure 9. Riotintobolus antafoky sp. nov., holotype (CASENT 9032794) A anterior gonopod, anterior view B anterior gonopod, posterior view C telopodite of left posterior gonopod, anterior view D left posterior gonopod, posterior view. Abbreviations: Cx = coxite; St = sternite; T = telopodite; x = lateral swollen process; y = opening of efferenct duct; z = apical membranous ' flag'. Not to scale." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.953.53977.figure9" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/436170" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">9C, D</figureCitation>
). Process of coxite and telopodite standing in same axis (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 9" captionStartId="F9" captionText="Figure 9. Riotintobolus antafoky sp. nov., holotype (CASENT 9032794) A anterior gonopod, anterior view B anterior gonopod, posterior view C telopodite of left posterior gonopod, anterior view D left posterior gonopod, posterior view. Abbreviations: Cx = coxite; St = sternite; T = telopodite; x = lateral swollen process; y = opening of efferenct duct; z = apical membranous ' flag'. Not to scale." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.953.53977.figure9" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/436170" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">9D</figureCitation>
). Pair of posterior gonopods located parallel to each other, connected by a small, sclerotised and visible sternite (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 9" captionStartId="F9" captionText="Figure 9. Riotintobolus antafoky sp. nov., holotype (CASENT 9032794) A anterior gonopod, anterior view B anterior gonopod, posterior view C telopodite of left posterior gonopod, anterior view D left posterior gonopod, posterior view. Abbreviations: Cx = coxite; St = sternite; T = telopodite; x = lateral swollen process; y = opening of efferenct duct; z = apical membranous ' flag'. Not to scale." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.953.53977.figure9" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/436170" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">9D</figureCitation>
). Basal part of coxite wide, mesally with a triangular sclerite located on lower level than remaining part (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 9" captionStartId="F9" captionText="Figure 9. Riotintobolus antafoky sp. nov., holotype (CASENT 9032794) A anterior gonopod, anterior view B anterior gonopod, posterior view C telopodite of left posterior gonopod, anterior view D left posterior gonopod, posterior view. Abbreviations: Cx = coxite; St = sternite; T = telopodite; x = lateral swollen process; y = opening of efferenct duct; z = apical membranous ' flag'. Not to scale." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.953.53977.figure9" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/436170" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">9C</figureCitation>
). Coxite elongated. Efferent duct running at mesal margin of coxite (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 9" captionStartId="F9" captionText="Figure 9. Riotintobolus antafoky sp. nov., holotype (CASENT 9032794) A anterior gonopod, anterior view B anterior gonopod, posterior view C telopodite of left posterior gonopod, anterior view D left posterior gonopod, posterior view. Abbreviations: Cx = coxite; St = sternite; T = telopodite; x = lateral swollen process; y = opening of efferenct duct; z = apical membranous ' flag'. Not to scale." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.953.53977.figure9" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/436170" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">9C, D</figureCitation>
). Telopodite as wide as but slightly shorter than coxite, standing in same axis (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 9" captionStartId="F9" captionText="Figure 9. Riotintobolus antafoky sp. nov., holotype (CASENT 9032794) A anterior gonopod, anterior view B anterior gonopod, posterior view C telopodite of left posterior gonopod, anterior view D left posterior gonopod, posterior view. Abbreviations: Cx = coxite; St = sternite; T = telopodite; x = lateral swollen process; y = opening of efferenct duct; z = apical membranous ' flag'. Not to scale." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.953.53977.figure9" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/436170" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">9D</figureCitation>
), apically with a membranous
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(Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 9" captionStartId="F9" captionText="Figure 9. Riotintobolus antafoky sp. nov., holotype (CASENT 9032794) A anterior gonopod, anterior view B anterior gonopod, posterior view C telopodite of left posterior gonopod, anterior view D left posterior gonopod, posterior view. Abbreviations: Cx = coxite; St = sternite; T = telopodite; x = lateral swollen process; y = opening of efferenct duct; z = apical membranous ' flag'. Not to scale." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.953.53977.figure9" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/436170" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">9C, D</figureCitation>
). Laterally with sclerotised projection bending laterally and completely surrounded by membranous flag. (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 9" captionStartId="F9" captionText="Figure 9. Riotintobolus antafoky sp. nov., holotype (CASENT 9032794) A anterior gonopod, anterior view B anterior gonopod, posterior view C telopodite of left posterior gonopod, anterior view D left posterior gonopod, posterior view. Abbreviations: Cx = coxite; St = sternite; T = telopodite; x = lateral swollen process; y = opening of efferenct duct; z = apical membranous ' flag'. Not to scale." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.953.53977.figure9" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/436170" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">9C, D</figureCitation>
). Efferent duct ending at base of process (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 9" captionStartId="F9" captionText="Figure 9. Riotintobolus antafoky sp. nov., holotype (CASENT 9032794) A anterior gonopod, anterior view B anterior gonopod, posterior view C telopodite of left posterior gonopod, anterior view D left posterior gonopod, posterior view. Abbreviations: Cx = coxite; St = sternite; T = telopodite; x = lateral swollen process; y = opening of efferenct duct; z = apical membranous ' flag'. Not to scale." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.953.53977.figure9" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/436170" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">9C, D</figureCitation>
). Apex laterally with weakly developed finger-shaped process.
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this species lives in direct sympatry with the much larger
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.
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