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CD, 6, 1416
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Collection data for each sample set is shown in
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are from the main basin of Bay dEspoir, southern Newfoundland (
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Table 3 summarizes the catalogue/accession information and basic morphological data for each specimen included in the
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series. All specimens are deposited in the Mollusc Collection of the Canadian Museum of Nature; five of these were used to extract partial
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(CMNML 097156): Complete specimen, left valve preserved dry (
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A), right valve (posterior margin damaged) and tissue preserved in 70% ethanol; nearly equivalved (see byssal notch below), thin, ovate with narrow hinge region (hinge length to shell width ratio = 0.43; Tab. 3), exterior light beige in colour, with whitish radial ribs in median portion of shell; anterior and posterior radial ribs most prominent, attenuating toward median region, becoming broader and flattened; at least 89 major growth lines irregularly interrupting radial ribs. Poorly developed anterior auricle, dorsally delineating lunule; posterior auricle extending from umbo and representing about 83% of hinge length (Tab. 3). Lunule length
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, representing 41% of shell length, with weak inward curve. Byssal notch indistinct on left valve with lunule inner margin nearly straight, slightly gapping on right valve, particularly toward the dorsal region of the lunule. Shell moderately inflated with highest inflation point at first third of shell length.
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Shell interior translucent, glossy, whitish, with weak but demarcated muscle scars in the dorsoposterior region of the shell; pallial line weak. Hinge plate with deep, oblique, V-shape ligament pit extending from shell beak to mid-ventral edge of hinge plate. Hinge line delineating interior edge of hinge plate on either sides of ligament pit, nearly linear; ligament pit extending only slightly ventrally below hinge line; hinge length approx. 32% of shell length; hinge plate approx.
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high from beak to hinge line (about 5.2 % of shell length). Umbonal cavity present behind hinge plate.
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Soft tissue: mantle margin uniform and unfused, without siphon, bordered by short (contracted) tentacles. Foot small with broad, distal sole with deep byssal groove; three byssal threads attached anterodorsally to base of foot. Mouth bordered above and below by short palps, forming wide “lips”; palps not connected to gills. In living animal, soft tissue bright orange in colour, with long tentacles extending from gaping mantle margin (
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).
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Character variations within
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series: Tables 3 and 6 and
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present some of the morphometric variations between specimens. Shell thin, almost transparent in smallest specimen (CMNML 0 97162,
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), whitish to beige, translucent in some intermediate specimens (CMNML 0 97158,
<figureCitation id="64B22A68FFEB9279FBC352630ED5FAC8" box="[1099,1168,1302,1327]" captionStart="FIGURE 3" captionStartId="3.[151,250,1797,1819]" captionTargetBox="[162,1430,402,1725]" captionTargetId="figure@3.[151,1436,395,1758]" captionTargetPageId="3" captionText="FIGURE 3. External and internal views of the valve of six North Atlantic groups of Acesta. (A) A. excavata; ZMUC Trondheimsfjord, Norway, 09 - 1934, right valve. (B) A. excavata; The Azores, CMNML 0 42946, mirror image of left valve. (C) A. cryptadelphe sp. nov.; Bay dEspoir, Newfoundland, CMNML 0 92957, right valve. (D) A. cryptadelphe sp. nov.; The Gully, northwest Atlantic Ocean, CMNML 0 97158, right valve. (E) A. bullisi; Gulf of Mexico, USNM 811251, mirror image of left valve. (F) A. oophaga; Gulf of Mexico, USNM 639047, mirror image of left valve. Scales = 5 cm." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/235016/files/figure.png" pageId="23" pageNumber="174">Fig. 3</figureCitation>
D; CMNML 0 97157.1,
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B) and thick, opaque with patchy whitish, beige to light brown exterior and white interior in oldest specimens (e.g., CMNML 0 92958, CMNML 097161.1); highest valve inflation point closer to middle of shell length in larger specimens (valve inflation to shell length ratio ranges from 0.15 to 0.26;
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E), shell width to length ratio ranges from 0.74 to 0.84. Lunule of variable length relative to shell length with ratios ranging from 0.22 to 0.58 (
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C). Byssal notch usually represented by slight gapping of right valve, occasionally on both valves (e.g., CMNML 097157.1). Hinge length to shell length ratio ranges from 0.24 to 0.32; hinge plate height to shell length ratio varies from
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smallest specimens (e.g.,
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B, 15B) to
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older specimens (e.g.,
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B, D); hinge length to shell-width-ratio ranges from 0.30 to 0.43. Prominence of radial ribs on exterior of valves variable, faint in some specimens (e.g., CMNML 0 97160.2, CMNML 097161.1).
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The two specimens with well-preserved larval shell from The Gully and Beothuk Knoll (
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;
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) display a dome-shaped, subcircular prodissoconch (P1), with a uniform glossy surface; shell
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2D (or 2C?) (
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). Their lengths vary between 241 and 261 µm. A prodissoconch 2 region could not be clearly identified by light microscopy.
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<emphasis id="CEFDEAFFFFEB9279FF4F507B0B25F8C0" bold="true" box="[199,352,1806,1831]" pageId="23" pageNumber="174">Distribution.</emphasis>
Only known from the material examined, off Nova
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, in The Gully, from
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, and around Beothuk Knoll, southwest Flemish Cap, from
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, and from Newfoundland in Bay dEspoirs Main Basin, from approx.
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400 to
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. See
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for map.
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<subSubSection id="B4936566FFEB9279FF4F500F0B22F83C" pageId="23" pageNumber="174" type="etymology">
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<emphasis id="CEFDEAFFFFEB9279FF4F500F0B0BF874" bold="true" box="[199,334,1914,1939]" pageId="23" pageNumber="174">Etymology.</emphasis>
From the terms “crypto”, meaning hidden or concealed, and “adelphe”, meaning sister or sibling, referring to the very similar shell morphology between this northwest Atlantic species and
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<emphasis id="CEFDEAFFFFEB9279FB1650EA0F11F851" box="[1182,1364,1951,1974]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="174">Acesta excavata</emphasis>
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in the northeast Atlantic.
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<emphasis id="CEFDEAFFFFE49276FF1F50FB0B5AF844" bold="true" box="[151,287,1934,1956]" pageId="24" pageNumber="175">FIGURE 14.</emphasis>
External and internal views of the valves of
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<emphasis id="CEFDEAFFFFE49276FC3450FA0E48F843" bold="true" box="[956,1037,1935,1956]" pageId="24" pageNumber="175">sp. nov.</emphasis>
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from The Gully, offshore Nova Scotia. (A) Holotype CMNML 0 97156, left valve. (B) Paratype CMNML 0 97157.1, left valve. Scales = 5 cm.
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<emphasis id="CEFDEAFFFFE59277FF1F54190B5BFC66" bold="true" box="[151,286,876,898]" pageId="25" pageNumber="176">FIGURE 15.</emphasis>
External and internal views of the valves of
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<emphasis id="CEFDEAFFFFE59277FD56541909EEFC65" box="[734,939,876,898]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="176">Acesta cryptadelphe</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="CEFDEAFFFFE59277FC3954190E44FC66" bold="true" box="[945,1025,876,897]" pageId="25" pageNumber="176">sp. nov.</emphasis>
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from Beothuk Knoll, southwest Flemish Cap. (A) Paratype CMNML 0 97159.1, left valve; scale = 5 cm. (B) CMNML 0 97162, left valve; scale = 0.2 cm.
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<emphasis id="CEFDEAFFFFE59277FF1F51750B5CF9F2" bold="true" box="[151,281,1536,1558]" pageId="25" pageNumber="176">FIGURE 16</emphasis>
. Close-up internal view of the hinge of
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<emphasis id="CEFDEAFFFFE59277FC0A51740996F9F1" bold="true" box="[898,979,1537,1558]" pageId="25" pageNumber="176">sp. nov.</emphasis>
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from The Gully (offshore Nova Scotia), Bay dEspoir (Newfoundland), and Beothuk Knoll (southwest Flemish Cap). (A) Paratype CMNML 0 97157.2, left valve; The Gully. (B) Paratype CMNML 0 92958, left valve; Bay dEspoir. (C) Paratype CMNML 0 97160.1, left valve; Beothuk Knoll. (D) Paratype CMNML 0 97159.2, right valve; Beothuk Knoll. Scales = 1 cm.
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<paragraph id="FC3636EDFFE59277FF4F51EA0910F88B" blockId="25.[151,1436,1695,2008]" pageId="25" pageNumber="176">
<emphasis id="CEFDEAFFFFE59277FF4F51EA0B7EF95F" bold="true" box="[199,315,1695,1720]" pageId="25" pageNumber="176">Remarks.</emphasis>
There is no DNA information available for the specimens collected by
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in Bay dEspoir, Newfoundland. However, according to our shell shape analysis, the specimens cluster with the Beothuk Knoll and The Gully specimens, which plot marginally outside the
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<emphasis id="CEFDEAFFFFE59277FC6F519D0ED9F918" box="[999,1180,1768,1791]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="176">Acesta excavata</emphasis>
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cluster suggesting that they share close genetic affinities. The specimens from the Azores also cluster along with the Newfoundland and Nova
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specimens in the shell shape analysis, and may also represent
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<emphasis id="CEFDEAFFFFE59277FC5250450ECEF8A0" box="[986,1163,1839,1863]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="176">A. cryptadelphe</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="CEFDEAFFFFE59277FB1A505A0EAEF8AF" bold="true" box="[1170,1259,1839,1864]" pageId="25" pageNumber="176">sp. nov.</emphasis>
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Further genetic work on Azorean specimens is required to test that hypothesis.
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The molecular data indicate that the
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<emphasis id="CEFDEAFFFFE59277FC40500D0EC4F868" box="[968,1153,1911,1935]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="176">A. cryptadelphe</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="CEFDEAFFFFE59277FB1850020EB7F877" bold="true" box="[1168,1266,1911,1936]" pageId="25" pageNumber="176">sp. nov.</emphasis>
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, each form a monophyletic clade (
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,
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). The specimens from Newfoundland (Beothuk Knoll) and Nova
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(The Gully) have a low genetic divergence (average 0.012) comparable to that of other
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species (range 0.003 to 0.012), and with divergence from other
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<emphasis id="CEFDEAFFFFE69274FDDB57ED08DBFF48" box="[595,670,152,175]" italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="177">Acesta</emphasis>
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species an order of magnitude greater; ranging from 0.103 (
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) to 0.166 (
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<emphasis id="CEFDEAFFFFE69274FE8B57C90B28FF33" box="[259,365,188,212]" italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="177">A. sphoni</emphasis>
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).
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<emphasis id="CEFDEAFFFFE69274FF4F57AA0807FF1F" bold="true" box="[199,578,223,248]" pageId="26" pageNumber="177">Habitat and species association.</emphasis>
In the northwest Atlantic (
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), all specimens were found associated with rocky substrates below
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water depth, either on isolated outcrops, under overhangs or on rock walls. The first two specimens of giant file clams found in Bay dEspoir, Newfoundland, were associated with a near-vertical underwater cliff and isolated outcrops at depths ranging from
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(
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). A manned diving excursion with a submersible along two vertical transects of this fjords rock walls (Goblin Head;
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) revealed large numbers of
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specimens but none of the typical cold-water coral association (i.e.,
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<emphasis id="CEFDEAFFFFE69274FF5456CD0B8CFE37" box="[220,457,440,464]" italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="177">Paragorgia arborea</emphasis>
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,
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,
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</emphasis>
and
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<emphasis id="CEFDEAFFFFE69274FBAC56CD0F4CFE37" box="[1060,1289,440,464]" italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="177">Madrepora oculata</emphasis>
(Linnaeus)
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,
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<emphasis id="CEFDEAFFFFE69274FF1F56A90B7AFE13" box="[151,319,476,500]" italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="177">Desmophyllum</emphasis>
Ehrenberg. In The Gully
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,
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<emphasis id="CEFDEAFFFFE69274FD0A56A90888FE14" box="[642,717,476,499]" italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="177">Acesta</emphasis>
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specimens occur on steep cliffs and other rock surfaces, in association with
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<emphasis id="CEFDEAFFFFE69274FEE955750833FDFF" box="[353,630,512,536]" italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="177">Desmophyllum dianthus</emphasis>
(Esper)
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(
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B),
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<emphasis id="CEFDEAFFFFE69274FCEF557509BEFDF0" box="[871,1019,512,535]" italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="177">Paramuricea</emphasis>
Koelliker
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, and occasionally in the vicinity of
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<emphasis id="CEFDEAFFFFE69274FE9E55500865FDDB" box="[278,544,548,572]" italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="177">Primnoa resedaeformis</emphasis>
(Gunnerus) (
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Kenchington
<emphasis id="CEFDEAFFFFE69274FCDD555009CDFDDB" box="[853,904,548,572]" italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="177">et al</emphasis>
. 2014
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)
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. Around Beothuk Knoll,
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Murillo
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. (2011)
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reported
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and
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</emphasis>
whereas
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<emphasis id="CEFDEAFFFFE69274FC6B553D0EAFFD87" box="[995,1258,584,608]" italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="177">Primnoa resedaeformis</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="CEFDEAFFFFE69274FAA9553D0B5DFD63" italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="177">Anthothela grandiflora</emphasis>
(M. Sars)
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are present within Flemish Pass, just north of Beothuk Knoll.
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