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, pl. 12(1415).—
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.—Clark, A.M. 1976: 258259 [Non
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. A.M.
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identified small amphiurids collected from the coastal zone around Île Saint-Paul and Île Amsterdam as the South African species
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, apparently unaware that an earlier species
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had been described from Île Saint-Paul on the Novara expedition in 1857 and later collected by the La Dive expedition in 1872 (
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). The two species are very similar, having oblong proximally divergent radial shields, 1/6 dd in length, small disc scales, often sparser near the oral shields, DAPs slightly wider than long, one small tentacle scale, spear-head-shaped oral shields and a small conical adoral shield spine (distal oral papilla). There are generally 45 small arm spines at
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dd, the middle ones slightly flattened and truncate. Large
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dd specimens of
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from
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can have up to 7 arm spines (
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Olbers
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).
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broods its young(
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)and presumably
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does as well.Consequently, the common ancestor of
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presumably rafted to SPA in kelp holdfasts or on wood. Interestingly,
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has also been collected from the remote island of
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in the South Atlantic (
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). Unfortunately, we do not have DNA data for these populations. However, phylogeographic data is available for the benthic egg-laying asteroid
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(Lamarck)
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with a similar distribution (
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Hart
<emphasis id="7DF0EAA5537CFFB2FB22832EFAFAF9E8" box="[1302,1362,1580,1606]" italics="true" pageId="34" pageNumber="35">et al.</emphasis>
2006
</bibRefCitation>
;
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). Network analyses of COI sequences showed that
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<emphasis id="7DF0EAA5537CFFB2FDFB8353FBFDF9C4" box="[975,1109,1616,1642]" italics="true" pageId="34" pageNumber="35">Parvulastra</emphasis>
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specimens from Amsterdam Island were phylogenetically distinct from clades on the South African and Australian coasts (
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Hart
<emphasis id="7DF0EAA5537CFFB2FB238376FAFBF920" box="[1303,1363,1652,1678]" italics="true" pageId="34" pageNumber="35">et al.</emphasis>
2006
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;
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). Presumably, long distance rafting is an infrequent event allowing the island populations to diverge from their African source populations. Until there is genetic data for this
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<emphasis id="7DF0EAA5537CFFB2FA5783BFFB7BF978" box="[1123,1235,1724,1750]" italics="true" pageId="34" pageNumber="35">Amphiura</emphasis>
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, the conservative approach is taken here of recognising
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<emphasis id="7DF0EAA5537CFFB2FC7583E3FD7DF954" box="[577,725,1760,1786]" italics="true" pageId="34" pageNumber="35">A. brevispina</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
as an endemic species of the SPA islands.
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Except for the next species, the numerous other
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<emphasis id="7DF0EAA5537CFFB2FCC08207FCCCF8B0" box="[756,868,1796,1822]" italics="true" pageId="34" pageNumber="35">Amphiura</emphasis>
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specimens (&lt;
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dd) collected by the MD50 expedition (
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) were small and damaged and not readily identifiable.
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