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AF, 2AB)
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. Malvan,
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; geographical coordinates: 16˚02'23.97&quot;N 73˚26'15.3&quot;E; depth:
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; date:
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; bottom ecology: silty substratum; Vijapure leg.
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Ratnagiri,
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; geographical coordinates: 17˚00'08.64&quot;N 73˚13'47.11&quot;E.; depth:
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; bottom ecology: silty substratum; Vijapure leg.
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<emphasis id="B972EACF660DFFC2E69DFD49FE94FCE9" bold="true" box="[199,345,751,776]" pageId="1" pageNumber="434">Description.</emphasis>
This description is based on observations of nine specimens with the aid of dissecting microscope; three were mounted in toto for overall observation under the compound microscope; two were dissected for internal anatomy.
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series are small worms with a length of
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, including the introvert (
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A). Introvert slightly longer than the trunk. Skin smooth and translucent. Colour cream in preserved worms, somewhat darker at both ends of the trunk. Elongated bulbous papillae, 1735 µm tall (
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E) on the anterior part of the trunk. Triangular shaped holdfast papillae (
<figureCitation id="133D2A58660DFFC2E492FC02FCC5FC5D" box="[712,776,932,957]" captionStart="FIGURE 1" captionStartId="2.[151,250,1909,1931]" captionTargetBox="[315,1266,607,1863]" captionTargetId="figure@2.[302,1284,591,1884]" captionTargetPageId="2" captionText="FIGURE 1. Phascolion (Montuga) pacificum denticulatum new subspecies: A, External view; B, Holdfast papillae showing long spines; C, Hook; D, Detail of holdfast papillae; E, Papillae in the anterior part of the trunk; F, Papillae at the trunk end. Scale bars: A = 0.5 mm; B = 60 Μm; C = 25 Μm; D = 35 Μm; E, F = 10 Μm." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/239997/files/figure.png" pageId="1" pageNumber="434">Fig. 1</figureCitation>
B, D) 50100 µm tall, scattered in the middle of the trunk region. The free edges of the holdfast papillae are pigmented in brown colour and directed towards the anterior end of the body. A prominent tooth-like projection or spine is well developed in the larger holdfast papillae (
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B, D). They are 735 µm tall and 718 µm wide at the base. At the trunk end there are conspicuous digitate papillae about 10 µm high (
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F). Small scattered, spine-like hooks about 20 µm in height (
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C), slightly curved at the end. Tentacles absent, not developed. Internally, the longitudinal musculature is continuous. A single fused retractor with two or three roots attached to the trunk end (
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AB). Esophagus detaches from the retractor prior to any subdivision. Gut organized in a few loose loops. Rectal caecum not observed. A single nephridium is present on the right side of the nerve cord and it is attached to the body wall for most of its length. Nephridiopore behind the anus. Ventral nerve cord ends just before the attachment of the retractor muscle. Gonads not observed.
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<emphasis id="B972EACF660DFFC2E69DFAAAFE8BFAC4" bold="true" box="[199,326,1292,1317]" pageId="1" pageNumber="434">Etymology</emphasis>
. The subspecific epithet
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refers to the presence of tooth-like projections in the free border of the holdfast papillae.
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<emphasis id="B972EACF660DFFC2E69DFAF2FEF6FA8C" bold="true" box="[199,315,1364,1389]" pageId="1" pageNumber="434">Remarks.</emphasis>
The studied specimens show a single retractor divided only at the posterior end with the esophagus detaching from the retractor column before any division. Those taxonomic characters correspond to the subgenus
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<emphasis id="B972EACF660DFFC2E6CDFA3BFF31FA55" box="[151,252,1437,1460]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="434">Montuga</emphasis>
Gibbs 1985
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. At present, this subgenus contains only two deep-water species:
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<emphasis id="B972EACF660DFFC2E23BFA3AFAF8FA55" box="[1121,1333,1436,1460]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="434">Phascolion lutense</emphasis>
Selenka, 1885
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and
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<emphasis id="B972EACF660DFFC2E753FA67FE59FA39" box="[265,404,1472,1496]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="434">P. pacificum</emphasis>
Murina, 1957
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. The presence of hardened holdfast papillae along the midtrunk area relates the studied specimens with the last species. However, there is a distinctive feature distinguishing the collected specimens from
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<emphasis id="B972EACF660DFFC2E70BF9AEFD89F9C1" box="[337,580,1544,1568]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="434">Phascolion pacificum</emphasis>
Murina, 1957
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: the presence of a prominent tooth-like projection or spine in the median part of the free border of the holdfast papillae. Our interpretation is that this anatomical character denotes a subspecific status from the nominal form.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BB936DD660DFFC2E69DF9D2FE95F84C" blockId="1.[151,1437,535,2037]" pageId="1" pageNumber="434">
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and
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noted different morphs in
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<emphasis id="B972EACF660DFFC2E584F9D2FB07F96D" box="[990,1226,1652,1676]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="434">Phascolion strombus</emphasis>
(Montagu, 1804)
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, which were interpreted either as race circles within the species, or cryptic species within a large “superspecies”. In fact, recent studies combining molecular and morphological techniques demonstrated a large potential of sipunculans to hide cryptic or pseudocryptic species (
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;
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,
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Schulze
<emphasis id="B972EACF660DFFC2E6A1F8A3FEFCF8FD" box="[251,305,1796,1820]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="434">et al</emphasis>
., 2012
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). There is no doubt that the application of molecular data would shed more light on the relationships among all taxonomic conflicts in this phylum.
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<emphasis id="B972EACF660DFFC2E514F88EFB89F8A1" box="[846,1092,1832,1856]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="434">Phascolion pacificum</emphasis>
Murina, 1957
</taxonomicName>
, is also a good candidate for molecular analysis, since contradictory anatomical data in different separate populations were observed (see for a compilation
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), relating to the presence/absence of tentacles and the shape of holdfast papillae.
</paragraph>
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<bibRefCitation id="EF974B2C660DFFC2E69DF81EFE32F831" author="Stephen" box="[199,511,1976,2001]" pageId="1" pageNumber="434" refString="Stephen, A. C. &amp; Edmonds, S. J. (1972) The phyla Sipuncula and Echiura. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 528 pp." type="book" year="1972">Stephen &amp; Edmonds (1972)</bibRefCitation>
used several times the presence/absence of teeth in the attachment papillae in their key to identification of species of the genus
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<emphasis id="B972EACF660DFFC2E4C5F87AFCD0F815" box="[671,797,2012,2036]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="434">Phascolion</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Later on,
<bibRefCitation id="EF974B2C660DFFC2E5FBF87AFB61F814" author="Cutler" box="[929,1196,2012,2037]" pageId="1" pageNumber="434" refString="Cutler, E. B. &amp; Cutler, N. J. (1985) A revision of the genera Phascolion Theel and Onchnesoma Koren &amp; Danielssen (Sipuncula). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 98, 809 - 850." type="journal article" year="1985">Cutler &amp; Cutler (1985)</bibRefCitation>
restricted the use of tooth-like projections or spines in the free border of the holdfast papillae to
<taxonomicName id="4C064D5E660EFFC1E5ABFF3EFA51FF51" authority="Selenka" authorityName="Selenka" box="[1009,1436,151,176]" class="Sipunculidea" family="Phascoliidae" genus="Phascolion" kingdom="Animalia" order="Golfingiiformes" pageId="2" pageNumber="435" phylum="Sipuncula" rank="species" species="collare" subGenus="Lesenka">
<emphasis id="B972EACF660EFFC1E5ABFF3EFAF6FF51" box="[1009,1339,152,176]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="435">Phascolion (Lesenka) collare</emphasis>
Selenka
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&amp; de
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, 1883, in which there are cases of 14 tall strongly chitinized teeth/points on the holdfast papillae.
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<emphasis id="B972EACF660EFFC1E6CDFF46FD7EFF19" box="[151,691,224,248]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="435">Phascolion (Montuga) pacificum denticulatum</emphasis>
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can be easily differentiated from
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<emphasis id="B972EACF660EFFC1E215FF47FB73FF19" box="[1103,1214,224,248]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="435">P. collare</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
by the subgeneric character: retractor column divided only at posterior end vs. complete fusion of the retractor muscles in
<emphasis id="B972EACF660EFFC1E379FEA3FA59FEFD" box="[1315,1428,260,284]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="435">
<taxonomicName id="4C064D5E660EFFC1E379FEA3FA5DFEFD" box="[1315,1424,260,284]" class="Sipunculidea" family="Phascoliidae" genus="Phascolion" kingdom="Animalia" order="Golfingiiformes" pageId="2" pageNumber="435" phylum="Sipuncula" rank="species" species="collare">P. collare</taxonomicName>
.
</emphasis>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BB936DD660EFFC1E69DFE8EFB86FDF9" blockId="2.[151,1437,151,536]" pageId="2" pageNumber="435">
From the several species characterized in
<bibRefCitation id="EF974B2C660EFFC1E4E4FE81FBC5FEA1" author="Stephen" box="[702,1032,295,320]" pageId="2" pageNumber="435" refString="Stephen, A. C. &amp; Edmonds, S. J. (1972) The phyla Sipuncula and Echiura. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 528 pp." type="book" year="1972">Stephen &amp; Edmonds (1972)</bibRefCitation>
with pointed tips on the holdfast papillae, one,
<taxonomicName id="4C064D5E660EFFC1E76EFEEBFDD9FE85" authority="Sato, 1930" authorityName="Sato" authorityYear="1930" box="[308,532,332,356]" class="Sipunculidea" family="Phascoliidae" genus="Phascolion" kingdom="Animalia" order="Golfingiiformes" pageId="2" pageNumber="435" phylum="Sipuncula" rank="species" species="ikedai">
<emphasis id="B972EACF660EFFC1E76EFEEBFE58FE85" box="[308,405,332,356]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="435">P. ikedai</emphasis>
Satô, 1930
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is externally similar to our proposed subspecies. The validity of the species was under suspect in several revisions of the Japanese material of Sipuncula (
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;
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Cutler
<emphasis id="B972EACF660EFFC1E355FED7FAF2FE69" box="[1295,1343,368,392]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="435">et al</emphasis>
., 1984
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). Finally, the species was moved to the list of Incertae Sedis or Species Inquirendum in the review of the genus
<taxonomicName id="4C064D5E660EFFC1E6CDFE1EFED8FE31" box="[151,277,440,464]" class="Sipunculidea" family="Phascoliidae" genus="Phascolion" kingdom="Animalia" order="Golfingiiformes" pageId="2" pageNumber="435" phylum="Sipuncula" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B972EACF660EFFC1E6CDFE1EFED8FE31" box="[151,277,440,464]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="435">Phascolion</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
by
<bibRefCitation id="EF974B2C660EFFC1E718FE11FD80FE31" author="Cutler" box="[322,589,439,464]" pageId="2" pageNumber="435" refString="Cutler, E. B. &amp; Cutler, N. J. (1985) A revision of the genera Phascolion Theel and Onchnesoma Koren &amp; Danielssen (Sipuncula). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 98, 809 - 850." type="journal article" year="1985">Cutler &amp; Cutler (1985)</bibRefCitation>
. The main differences of our proposed new subspecies and
<taxonomicName id="4C064D5E660EFFC1E2A3FE1FFF02FE15" authority="Sato, 1930" authorityName="Sato" authorityYear="1930" class="Sipunculidea" family="Phascoliidae" genus="Phascolion" kingdom="Animalia" order="Golfingiiformes" pageId="2" pageNumber="435" phylum="Sipuncula" rank="species" species="ikedai">
<emphasis id="B972EACF660EFFC1E2A3FE1FFA97FE31" box="[1273,1370,440,464]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="435">P. ikedai</emphasis>
Satô, 1930
</taxonomicName>
are: (i) the minute body size; (ii) the absence of tentacles; (iii) and the place of the nephridiopore in relation to the anus: behind in
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<emphasis id="B972EACF660EFFC1E728FDA7FD58FDF9" box="[370,661,512,536]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="435">P. pacificum denticulatum</emphasis>
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vs. far anterior to the anus in
<emphasis id="B972EACF660EFFC1E5BEFDA7FB86FDF9" box="[996,1099,512,536]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="435">
<taxonomicName id="4C064D5E660EFFC1E5BEFDA7FB8AFDF9" box="[996,1095,512,536]" class="Sipunculidea" family="Phascoliidae" genus="Phascolion" kingdom="Animalia" order="Golfingiiformes" pageId="2" pageNumber="435" phylum="Sipuncula" rank="species" species="ikedai">P. ikedai</taxonomicName>
.
</emphasis>
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B972EACF660EFFC1E6CDF8D3FED9F86B" bold="true" box="[151,276,1909,1931]" pageId="2" pageNumber="435">FIGURE 1.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B972EACF660EFFC1E741F8D2FD35F86B" box="[283,760,1908,1930]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="435">Phascolion (Montuga) pacificum denticulatum</emphasis>
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: A, External view; B, Holdfast papillae showing long spines; C, Hook; D, Detail of holdfast papillae; E, Papillae in the anterior part of the trunk; F, Papillae at the trunk end. Scale bars: A = 0.5 mm; B = 60 Μm; C = 25 Μm; D = 35 Μm; E, F = 10 Μm.
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<emphasis id="B972EACF660FFFC0E6CDFCEBFED8FC83" bold="true" box="[151,277,845,867]" pageId="3" pageNumber="436">FIGURE 2.</emphasis>
Internal anatomy of
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<emphasis id="B972EACF660FFFC0E7A8FCEBFC1FFC82" box="[498,978,845,867]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="436">Phascolion (Montuga) pacificum denticulatum</emphasis>
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: A, Dissection showing the retractor column; B, Details of the different organs. The intestinal loops and nephridium were damaged during dissection. Scale bar: 1 mm. Abbreviations: A, anus; E, esophagus; I, intestine; R, rectum; RM, retractor muscle; VNC, ventral nerve cord.
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<paragraph id="8BB936DD660FFFC0E69DFC6AFD9EFB5F" blockId="3.[151,1436,972,1214]" pageId="3" pageNumber="436">
Finally, we would like to emphasize that we are reporting here for the first time the presence of one
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<emphasis id="B972EACF660FFFC0E344FC6BFA51FC04" box="[1310,1436,973,997]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="436">Phascolion</emphasis>
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species in all waters around the vast Indian coast. This paucity in recording species of the genus
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<emphasis id="B972EACF660FFFC0E28DFC57FA98FBE8" box="[1239,1365,1009,1033]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="436">Phascolion</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in the central part of the Indian Ocean has been related with the lack of suitable habitats for these worms (
<bibRefCitation id="EF974B2C660FFFC0E2A5FBB3FA5DFBCC" author="Cutler" box="[1279,1424,1045,1070]" pageId="3" pageNumber="436" refString="Cutler, E. B. (1994) The Sipuncula: Their Systematics, Biology, and Evolution. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 453 pp." type="book" year="1994">Cutler, 1994</bibRefCitation>
). Empty mollusc shells and void calcareous tubes appear as convenient shelters for many phascolionids. Whether the Indian coasts exhibit a lesser availability of this kind of protective habitats in comparison with other areas worldwide, or this ecological niche is occupied more efficiently by other faunal competitors, such as the anomuran crustaceans, remains to be investigated.
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</subSubSection>
</treatment>
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