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<mods:title>Abyssal fauna of polymetallic nodule exploration areas, eastern Clarion-Clipperton Zone, central Pacific Ocean: Annelida: Capitellidae, Opheliidae, Scalibregmatidae, and Travisiidae</mods:title>
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<taxonomicName LSID="10F31301-A643-54F7-AED3-E67659321BCC" authority="sp. (NHM _ 1331)" class="Polychaeta" family="Capitellidae" genus="Ophelina" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Ophelina" order="Capitellida" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Annelida" rank="genus">Ophelina sp. (NHM_1331)</taxonomicName>
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 22" captionStartId="F22" captionText="Figure 22. Ophelina sp. NHM _ 1331 (specimen NHM _ 1331). A Lab image, whole specimen, dorsal view (faded stain) B Lab image, whole specimen, lateral view (faded stain) C Live image, whole specimen D Lab image, anterior (faded stain, br = branchiae, no = nuchal organ) E Lab image, detail of anterior (br = branchiae, no = nuchal organ) F Lab image, posterior, anal funnel (br = branchiae) G Lab image, detail of posterior and anal funnel (br = branchiae). Morphological features in plates B, D-G have been outlined with a fine white line to improve clarity of those features. Scale bars: 1 mm (A, B); 100 μm (E, G)." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.883.36193.figure22" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/350274" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" tableDoi="10.3897/zookeys.883.36193.figure22">
Fig. 22
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Material examined.</paragraph>
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NHM_1331 NHMUK ANEA 2019.7115, coll. 01 Mar. 2015,
<geoCoordinate degrees="12" direction="north" minutes="15.44" orientation="latitude" precision="9" value="12.257334">12°15.44N</geoCoordinate>
,
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, 4302 m http://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/06d48d7f-7339-4cc5-8445-b51a980e4e0f.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Description.</paragraph>
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This species is represented by a single complete specimen in relatively good condition. Specimen about 4.5 mm long and 0.5 mm wide for about 28 chaetigers. Body cylindrical and smooth with some annulation detectable (
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Fig. 22
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). Ventral and lateral grooves distinct throughout body. Preserved specimen yellow in ethanol; live specimen translucent, with yellow gut (
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 22" captionStartId="F22" captionText="Figure 22. Ophelina sp. NHM _ 1331 (specimen NHM _ 1331). A Lab image, whole specimen, dorsal view (faded stain) B Lab image, whole specimen, lateral view (faded stain) C Live image, whole specimen D Lab image, anterior (faded stain, br = branchiae, no = nuchal organ) E Lab image, detail of anterior (br = branchiae, no = nuchal organ) F Lab image, posterior, anal funnel (br = branchiae) G Lab image, detail of posterior and anal funnel (br = branchiae). Morphological features in plates B, D-G have been outlined with a fine white line to improve clarity of those features. Scale bars: 1 mm (A, B); 100 μm (E, G)." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.883.36193.figure22" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/350274" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" tableDoi="10.3897/zookeys.883.36193.figure22">Fig. 22C</figureCitation>
); everted nuchal organs with golden brown pigment (
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 22" captionStartId="F22" captionText="Figure 22. Ophelina sp. NHM _ 1331 (specimen NHM _ 1331). A Lab image, whole specimen, dorsal view (faded stain) B Lab image, whole specimen, lateral view (faded stain) C Live image, whole specimen D Lab image, anterior (faded stain, br = branchiae, no = nuchal organ) E Lab image, detail of anterior (br = branchiae, no = nuchal organ) F Lab image, posterior, anal funnel (br = branchiae) G Lab image, detail of posterior and anal funnel (br = branchiae). Morphological features in plates B, D-G have been outlined with a fine white line to improve clarity of those features. Scale bars: 1 mm (A, B); 100 μm (E, G)." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.883.36193.figure22" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/350274" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" tableDoi="10.3897/zookeys.883.36193.figure22">
Fig. 22
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). Chaetigers crowded in anterior part of the body and posterior part of the body (the last four chaetigers), elongated in the mid-section of the body.
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Figure 22.</emphasis>
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Ophelina</emphasis>
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sp. NHM_1331 (specimen NHM_1331).
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">A</emphasis>
Lab image, whole specimen, dorsal view (faded stain)
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">B</emphasis>
Lab image, whole specimen, lateral view (faded stain)
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">C</emphasis>
Live image, whole specimen
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Lab image, anterior (faded stain, br = branchiae, no = nuchal organ)
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Lab image, detail of anterior (br = branchiae, no = nuchal organ)
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Lab image, posterior, anal funnel (br = branchiae)
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Lab image, detail of posterior and anal funnel (br = branchiae). Morphological features in plates
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B,
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have been outlined with a fine white line to improve clarity of those features. Scale bars: 1 mm(
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); 100
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(
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).
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Prostomium of preserved specimen conical, broad (only slightly longer than wide) and anteriorly bluntly rounded; palpode not observed (
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). Nuchal organs laterally on posterior part of prostomium, everted, round with golden brown pigment observable even in preserved specimen.
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Branchiae present; with disjointed distribution, with three pairs on chaetigers 2-4 (
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) and three pairs in posterior region on chaetigers 21-24 (
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 22" captionStartId="F22" captionText="Figure 22. Ophelina sp. NHM _ 1331 (specimen NHM _ 1331). A Lab image, whole specimen, dorsal view (faded stain) B Lab image, whole specimen, lateral view (faded stain) C Live image, whole specimen D Lab image, anterior (faded stain, br = branchiae, no = nuchal organ) E Lab image, detail of anterior (br = branchiae, no = nuchal organ) F Lab image, posterior, anal funnel (br = branchiae) G Lab image, detail of posterior and anal funnel (br = branchiae). Morphological features in plates B, D-G have been outlined with a fine white line to improve clarity of those features. Scale bars: 1 mm (A, B); 100 μm (E, G)." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.883.36193.figure22" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/350274" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" tableDoi="10.3897/zookeys.883.36193.figure22">Fig. 22F, G</figureCitation>
); branchiae in other chaetigers not observed, branchiae considered absent in the last four crowded chaetigers. All branchiae cirriform, of similar length.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Parapodia distinct, biramous; embedded in lateral grooves on chaetigers 1-24; no distinct pre- or postchaetal lobes. Chaetae are capillaries only; all very long but longest on chaetiger 1 where they are nearly twice the length of chaetae of subsequent chaetigers.</paragraph>
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Anal tube attached, but not well preserved; cylindrical; appears distally asymmetrical with dorsal lobe overlapping the ventral lobe (but this may be an artefact of poor preservation) (
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); cirrus not observed.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Genetic data.</paragraph>
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GenBank MN217465 for 16S and MN217510 for 18S. COI was unsuccessful for this specimen, no identical GenBank matches for 16S or 18S. In our phylogenetic tree,
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Ophelina</emphasis>
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sp. (NHM_1331) is sister to &quot;
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Ophelina</emphasis>
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sp. F14588&quot; forming a clade with the taxa
<taxonomicName class="Polychaeta" family="Opheliidae" genus="Ophelina" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Ophelina cylindricaudata" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Annelida" rank="species" species="cylindricaudata">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Ophelina cylindricaudata</emphasis>
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from the Atlantic (New England) and
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sp. (NHM_689) (
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 23" captionStartId="F23" captionText="Figure 23. Phylogenetic analysis of Opheliidae. 50 % majority rule tree from the Bayesian analyses using 18 S and 16 S, with posterior probability values on nodes. Twenty-nine taxa from GenBank were included, and Capitellidae and Echiura was chosen as outgroup following the annelid phylogeny of Weigert and Bleidorn (2016)." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.883.36193.figure23" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/350275" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" tableDoi="10.3897/zookeys.883.36193.figure23">Fig. 23</figureCitation>
).
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Figure 23.</emphasis>
Phylogenetic analysis of
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. 50% majority rule tree from the Bayesian analyses using 18S and 16S, with posterior probability values on nodes. Twenty-nine taxa from GenBank were included, and
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and
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was chosen as outgroup following the annelid phylogeny of
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.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Remarks.</paragraph>
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Morphologically,
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Ophelina</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
sp. (NHM_1331) is similar to
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sp. (NHM_689) in having a broad prostomium and very long chaetae on chaetiger 1. Their branchiae appear to be arranged in a similar pattern (three pairs are present in chaetigers 2-5 and then few pairs present in posterior chaetigers). Nuchal organs are not everted in
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">O.</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
sp. (NHM_689). They may differ in number of chaetigers, although this is difficult to establish due to damage of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">O.</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
sp. (NHM_689), anal tube has not been observed in
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">O.</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
sp. (NHM_689) (assumed missing) and cannot be compared.
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Of known species of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Ophelina</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">O.</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
sp. (NHM_1331) is similar to a group with 28 chaetigers and four posterior parapodia crowded:
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,
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(Ehlers, 1913) and
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</taxonomicName>
<bibRefCitation DOI="https://doi.org/10.1080/11250003.2011.606658" author="Kongsrud, JA" journalOrPublisher="Italian Journal of Zoology" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="95 - 111" refId="B54" refString="Kongsrud, JA, Bakken, T, Oug, E, 2011. Deep-water species of the genus Ophelina (Annelida, Opheliidae) in the Nordic Seas, with the description of Ophelinabrattegardi sp. nov. Italian Journal of Zoology 78: 95 - 111" title="Deep-water species of the genus Ophelina (Annelida, Opheliidae) in the Nordic Seas, with the description of Ophelinabrattegardi sp. nov." url="https://doi.org/10.1080/11250003.2011.606658" volume="78" year="2011">Kongsrud et al., 2011</bibRefCitation>
.
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The lack of branchiae in midbody has been described in some of these species, but for
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this has been clarified as a mistake in the original description.
<bibRefCitation DOI="https://doi.org/10.1080/11250003.2011.606658" author="Kongsrud, JA" journalOrPublisher="Italian Journal of Zoology" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="95 - 111" refId="B54" refString="Kongsrud, JA, Bakken, T, Oug, E, 2011. Deep-water species of the genus Ophelina (Annelida, Opheliidae) in the Nordic Seas, with the description of Ophelinabrattegardi sp. nov. Italian Journal of Zoology 78: 95 - 111" title="Deep-water species of the genus Ophelina (Annelida, Opheliidae) in the Nordic Seas, with the description of Ophelinabrattegardi sp. nov." url="https://doi.org/10.1080/11250003.2011.606658" volume="78" year="2011">Kongsrud et al. (2011)</bibRefCitation>
reported that branchiae in the mid-body region may be present in
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">O. cylindricaudata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
but are often reduced in size and when they are lacking there is no consistent pattern. The absence of branchiae is considered
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in
<taxonomicName class="Polychaeta" family="Opheliidae" genus="Ophelina" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Ophelina chaetifera" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Annelida" rank="species" species="chaetifera">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Ophelina chaetifera</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
<bibRefCitation author="Hartman, O" journalOrPublisher="Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="1 - 384" refId="B43" refString="Hartman, O, 1965. Deep-water benthic polychaetous annelids off New England to Bermuda and other North Atlantic areas. Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation 28: 1 - 384" title="Deep-water benthic polychaetous annelids off New England to Bermuda and other North Atlantic areas." volume="28" year="1965">Hartman 1965</bibRefCitation>
), described from the deep Atlantic (1330-5007 m) and
<taxonomicName lsidName="O. brattegardi" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="brattegardi">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">O. brattegardi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
described from Iceland Sea (off East Greenland) in 1600 m depth. The UKSR species differs from both in having broad, anteriorly blunt prostomium.
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Ophelina chaetifera</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
further differs in having only 26 chaetigers. However, with only single specimen available for examination, we cannot establish
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branchial distribution in UKSR samples.
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