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Alluding to the provenance of the species on the Chatham Rise,
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Erect ringed tubes produced by short adnate branches from creeping tubes and separated by intervals of
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mainly on one side of creeping tubes; mean erect-tube diameter 132 μm, mean fusellus height 22 μm. Colony with sparse secondary runner branches, spreading to at least
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length. Zigzag sutures of creeping tubes conspicuous, zigzag slightly less than one third convexity width, sutures slightly wider apart than those on adnate side branches; zigzag angles 4466° on main creeping tubes, 3361° on short adnate branches.
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Erect-tube inception indirect via short adnate side branch from a creeping tube, the erect tube constituting the terminus of the short branch. Colony encrusting surface of dead coral, comprising one main creeping tube with sparse secondary branches of creeping tube, these producing short blind side-branches, each side-branch composed of a proximal adherent portion and a distal erect tube (
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owing to lateral creeping tube diverging from main creeping tube; main creeping tube relatively straight with only moderate curvature. Blind side-branches produced at intervals of c.
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Creeping tubes with convex part 149205 (186) μm (
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= 11) wide, with flattened marginal lamina along both sides (
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), also of variable width [2844 (37) μm, n = 13], its edges often diffuse and not well defined. Surface fusellar sutures conspicuous (
<figureCitation id="1313BDDEFFD5B945EB85FC3FF75AFC6E" box="[482,568,979,1005]" captionStart="FIGURE 7" captionStartId="17.[151,250,1331,1355]" captionTargetBox="[293,1294,181,1307]" captionTargetId="figure-17@17.[280,1307,181,1307]" captionTargetPageId="17" captionText="FIGURE 7. Rhabdopleura chathamica n. sp., AC, F, paratype 90265; D, E, holotype 161214: A, part of colony showing three blind side branches, the proximal part of which is adherent; only one ringed erect tube (et) remains. B, close-up of middle side branch in A; note part of the pectocaulus/black stolon (bs) seen through a tear in the cuticle. C, the longest zooid seen, somewhat fouled and partly twisted in profile. D, non-fouled part of another erect tube showing well-developed fusellar collars. E, fusellar sutures on surface of creeping tube, with some point-to-point suture zigzags highlighted. F, close-up of fusellar sutures seen on adherent tube in B. Scale bars: A, 1 mm; B, 300 μm; C, F, 100 μm; D, 50 μm; E, 200 μm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10821379" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/10821379/files/figure.png" pageId="16" pageNumber="339">Fig. 7E</figureCitation>
), with point-to-point zigzag angles of 4466 (55)°, mode 55° (
<emphasis id="B95C7D49FFD5B945EE93FC38F060FC6E" box="[1268,1282,980,1005]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="339">n</emphasis>
= 50); zigzag sequence narrow, occupying only c. 2730% of convexity width, with zigzag components straight or gently curved. Pectocaulus running along floor of creeping tubes, including under dormant bodies within tubes, 2229 (25) μm wide (
<emphasis id="B95C7D49FFD5B945EAB9FBACF58EFBDA" box="[222,236,1088,1113]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="339">n</emphasis>
= 7).
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<paragraph id="8B97A15BFFD5B945EAA0FB8FF662FB6A" blockId="16.[151,1437,331,1905]" pageId="16" pageNumber="339">
Blind-ending side branches generally straight, rarely curving, budded at right angles or obliquely from creeping tube, with adherent portion 424603 (499) μm long (
<emphasis id="B95C7D49FFD5B945E89BFB64F668FB22" box="[764,778,1160,1185]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="339">n</emphasis>
= 8), convexity 170211 (192) μm wide (
<emphasis id="B95C7D49FFD5B945EE92FB64F061FB22" box="[1269,1283,1160,1185]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="339">n</emphasis>
= 8), margin 2844 (37) μm wide (
<emphasis id="B95C7D49FFD5B945EBE0FB40F4F7FB46" box="[391,405,1196,1221]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="339">n</emphasis>
= 13). Oblique sutures a little more closely spaced (
<figureCitation id="1313BDDEFFD5B945E9B5FB47F146FB46" box="[978,1060,1195,1221]" captionStart="FIGURE 7" captionStartId="17.[151,250,1331,1355]" captionTargetBox="[293,1294,181,1307]" captionTargetId="figure-17@17.[280,1307,181,1307]" captionTargetPageId="17" captionText="FIGURE 7. Rhabdopleura chathamica n. sp., AC, F, paratype 90265; D, E, holotype 161214: A, part of colony showing three blind side branches, the proximal part of which is adherent; only one ringed erect tube (et) remains. B, close-up of middle side branch in A; note part of the pectocaulus/black stolon (bs) seen through a tear in the cuticle. C, the longest zooid seen, somewhat fouled and partly twisted in profile. D, non-fouled part of another erect tube showing well-developed fusellar collars. E, fusellar sutures on surface of creeping tube, with some point-to-point suture zigzags highlighted. F, close-up of fusellar sutures seen on adherent tube in B. Scale bars: A, 1 mm; B, 300 μm; C, F, 100 μm; D, 50 μm; E, 200 μm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10821379" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/10821379/files/figure.png" pageId="16" pageNumber="339">Fig. 7F</figureCitation>
) than on main creeping tube, with smaller zigzag angles [3361 (45)°, mode 40 (
<emphasis id="B95C7D49FFD5B945E8F8FB3CF7CFFB6A" box="[671,685,1232,1257]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="339">n</emphasis>
= 22)].
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B97A15BFFD5B945EAA0FB18F4FFFA1E" blockId="16.[151,1437,331,1905]" pageId="16" pageNumber="339">
Erect tubes from side branches (
<figureCitation id="1313BDDEFFD5B945E84DFB1FF7FDFA8E" box="[554,671,1267,1293]" captionStart="FIGURE 7" captionStartId="17.[151,250,1331,1355]" captionTargetBox="[293,1294,181,1307]" captionTargetId="figure-17@17.[280,1307,181,1307]" captionTargetPageId="17" captionText="FIGURE 7. Rhabdopleura chathamica n. sp., AC, F, paratype 90265; D, E, holotype 161214: A, part of colony showing three blind side branches, the proximal part of which is adherent; only one ringed erect tube (et) remains. B, close-up of middle side branch in A; note part of the pectocaulus/black stolon (bs) seen through a tear in the cuticle. C, the longest zooid seen, somewhat fouled and partly twisted in profile. D, non-fouled part of another erect tube showing well-developed fusellar collars. E, fusellar sutures on surface of creeping tube, with some point-to-point suture zigzags highlighted. F, close-up of fusellar sutures seen on adherent tube in B. Scale bars: A, 1 mm; B, 300 μm; C, F, 100 μm; D, 50 μm; E, 200 μm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10821379" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/10821379/files/figure.png" pageId="16" pageNumber="339">Fig. 7C, D</figureCitation>
) all broken and somewhat fouled, the longest 598 μm. Tube diameter between fusellar collars 109159 (132) μm (
<emphasis id="B95C7D49FFD5B945E8FDFAF4F7CAFAB2" box="[666,680,1304,1329]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="339">n</emphasis>
= 9), collars moderately projecting circumferentially around tube [411 (7) μm,
<emphasis id="B95C7D49FFD5B945EB50FAD0F427FAD6" box="[311,325,1340,1365]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="339">n</emphasis>
= 17], lightly to moderately crinkled and horizontal to oblique, with variable fusellus height [1234 (22) μm (
<emphasis id="B95C7D49FFD5B945EB63FA8CF470FAFA" box="[260,274,1376,1401]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="339">n</emphasis>
= 28), fuselli generally shorter in proximal third part of tubes; number of fusellar collars in 500 μm of erect tube c. 20 (
<emphasis id="B95C7D49FFD5B945EB34FA68F403FA1E" box="[339,353,1412,1437]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="339">n</emphasis>
= 2).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B97A15BFFD5B945EAA0FA44F14FFA41" blockId="16.[151,1437,331,1905]" box="[199,1069,1447,1474]" pageId="16" pageNumber="339">Dormant bodies not seen. Founding individuals (siculae) and zooids not seen.</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C332F2D0FFD5B945EAA0FA27F4DFF8F2" pageId="16" pageNumber="339" type="discussion">
<paragraph id="8B97A15BFFD5B945EAA0FA27F589F886" blockId="16.[151,1437,331,1905]" pageId="16" pageNumber="339">
<emphasis id="B95C7D49FFD5B945EAA0FA27F45FFA66" bold="true" box="[199,317,1483,1509]" pageId="16" pageNumber="339">Remarks.</emphasis>
The
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and
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colonies grew on a fragment of the ahermatypic scleractinian coral
<emphasis id="B95C7D49FFD5B945EAF0FA03F4EDF98A" box="[151,399,1519,1545]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="339">
Gonioporella
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</emphasis>
. The colonies cannot be wholly seen in any one image because they follow the curvature of the cylindrical coral substratum.
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<emphasis id="B95C7D49FFD5B945E868F9FFF65DF9AE" box="[527,831,1555,1581]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="339">Rhabdopleura chathamica</emphasis>
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is the only species seen so far in
<collectingCountry id="F33FE1CBFFD5B945EF64F9F8F0FEF9AE" box="[1283,1436,1555,1582]" name="New Zealand" pageId="16" pageNumber="339">New Zealand</collectingCountry>
waters with indirectly budded erect tubes and is therefore easily recognizable from the blind-ending side branches that occur along one or both sides of creeping tubes. It seems to be a rare species. Much material of
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<emphasis id="B95C7D49FFD5B945EF47F9B0F0FEF9F6" box="[1312,1436,1627,1654]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="339">G. dumosa</emphasis>
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from the same and nearby localities was examined but no other specimens were found. If erect ringed tubes are short or broken off only the thin pectocaulus is plainly seen; creeping tubes are transparent and surface details are hard to discern unless light is reflected at a certain angle. On the other hand, SEM renders creeping tubes plainly visible.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B97A15BFFD5B945EAA0F8E3F4DFF8F2" blockId="16.[151,1437,331,1905]" pageId="16" pageNumber="339">
At
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,
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<emphasis id="B95C7D49FFD5B945EBF0F8FCF75AF8AA" box="[407,568,1807,1833]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="339">R. chathamica</emphasis>
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is the deepest-occurring species so far recorded, exceeding the
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depth reported for
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on
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<emphasis id="B95C7D49FFD5B945E862F8DFF67AF8CE" box="[517,792,1843,1869]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="339">Desmophyllum pertusum</emphasis>
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coral at the edge of the Celtic Sea shelf, northeast Atlantic (
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, Table 2).
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