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<emphasis id="36D6EA8B3925577E49CCF898FE92F88D" bold="true" box="[151,370,1808,1835]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="183">Copytus fusiformis</emphasis>
(
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)
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.
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<emphasis id="36D6EA8B3925577E49CCF8BCFE89F8E9" box="[151,361,1845,1871]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="183">Copytus fusiformis</emphasis>
(
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)
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was originally described as
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<emphasis id="36D6EA8B3925577E4A08F8BCFC1BF8E9" box="[851,1019,1845,1871]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="183">Neocytherideis</emphasis>
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from the Pliocene of SW
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and subsequently recorded from the Recent off
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(
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),
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(
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Carbonel
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1983
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) and
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(
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). The latter author changed the name to
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<emphasis id="36D6EA8B3925577E4BB2F8F4FCA5F831" box="[745,837,1917,1943]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="183">Copytus</emphasis>
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, because it has the cluster of four adductor scars in a small circular group so distinctive of
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<emphasis id="36D6EA8B3925577E4B6DF828FD72F81D" box="[566,658,1953,1979]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="183">Copytus</emphasis>
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, although the very elongate cylindrical shape with a narrowly pointed anterior margin below mid-height being perhaps more common in
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<emphasis id="36D6EA8B3925577E4AD5F84CFBD6F879" box="[910,1078,1989,2015]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="183">Neocytherideis</emphasis>
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. Besides, the hinge line is very long and not confined to the posterior half of the length.
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notes the “remarkable similarity” of this species to Indo-Pacific and Australian species of the genus such as
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<emphasis id="36D6EA8B3924577F4A2BFF34FC24FF71" box="[880,964,189,215]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="184">C. rara</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="60334B683924577F4A97FF34FB6BFF71" author="McKenzie, K. G." box="[972,1163,189,215]" pageId="7" pageNumber="184" pagination="61 - 106" refId="ref14559" refString="McKenzie, K. G. (1967) Recent Ostracoda from Port Phillip Bay, Victoria. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, 80, 61 - 106." type="journal article" year="1967">McKenzie, 1967</bibRefCitation>
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,
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<emphasis id="36D6EA8B3924577F4DCCFF34FB13FF71" box="[1175,1267,189,215]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="184">Copytus</emphasis>
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sp. cf.
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<emphasis id="36D6EA8B3924577F4C13FF34FA7CFF71" box="[1352,1436,189,215]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="184">C. rara</emphasis>
(in
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)
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and
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<emphasis id="36D6EA8B3924577F483CFF68FE04FF5D" box="[359,484,225,251]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="184">C. tubulata</emphasis>
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(nomen nudum) in
<bibRefCitation id="60334B683924577F4B9BFF68FC88FF5D" author="Labutis, V. R." box="[704,872,225,251]" pageId="7" pageNumber="184" refId="ref14259" refString="Labutis, V. R. (1977) Cytheracean Ostracoda from the Great Barrier Reef. M. Sc. thesis, Macquarie University, Sydney, 374 pp." type="book" year="1977">Labutis (1977)</bibRefCitation>
. The Labutis species (pl. 11: 11; pl. 23: 67), with a small circular cluster of adductor scars and adont hinge, clearly belongs to
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<emphasis id="36D6EA8B3924577F4AA2FE8CFBB5FEB9" box="[1017,1109,261,287]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="184">Copytus</emphasis>
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.
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also registered some similarity to
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<emphasis id="36D6EA8B3924577F4836FEA0FE29FEE5" box="[365,457,297,323]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="184">Copytus</emphasis>
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sp. n. of
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from the onshore Quaternary of southern
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,
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. Although this Argentinian species is externally similar to
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<emphasis id="36D6EA8B3924577F4D17FEC4FB3DFEC1" box="[1100,1245,333,359]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="184">C. fusiformis</emphasis>
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, it is smaller (l =
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) and less elongate, and is in the list of synonymies of
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[
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]
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Whatley
<emphasis id="36D6EA8B3924577F4C05FEFBFA76FE2D" box="[1374,1430,369,395]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="184">et al.</emphasis>
, 1998
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. It is also noteworthy that
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<emphasis id="36D6EA8B3924577F48ACFE1CFDB3FE09" box="[503,595,405,431]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="184">Copytus</emphasis>
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sp. of
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Bertels
<emphasis id="36D6EA8B3924577F4BA8FE1FFCCBFE09" box="[755,811,405,431]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="184">et al.</emphasis>
(1982)
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, recovered from the Quaternary of southernmost
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, is another junior synonym of
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<emphasis id="36D6EA8B3924577F4B6FFE33FD5DFE75" box="[564,701,441,467]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="184">N. impudica</emphasis>
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.
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The present authors without hesitation refer
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<emphasis id="36D6EA8B3924577F4BE3FE54FC24FE51" box="[696,964,477,503]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="184">Neocytherideis boomeri</emphasis>
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to the genus
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<emphasis id="36D6EA8B3924577F4DAFFE54FAB0FE51" box="[1268,1360,477,503]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="184">Copytus</emphasis>
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on the grounds of its very long hinge without terminal teeth and subcircular aggregate of four adductor scars, and we also consider it a junior synonym of
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<emphasis id="36D6EA8B3924577F48A6FDACFD6DFD99" box="[509,653,549,575]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="184">C. fusiformis</emphasis>
(
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)
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. The South African material is very similar in outline, ornamentation and size (l = 0.951.00 mm) to the material of
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<emphasis id="36D6EA8B3924577F4A10FDC0FC3BFDC5" box="[843,987,585,611]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="184">C. fusiformis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
from
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(l =
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).
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