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, st. JSL-04-
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, coll. S.W. Ross,
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<date id="431CAB8DFF8CFFFD5AB7D24C6D48FCCC" box="[951,1109,830,856]" pageId="6" pageNumber="51" value="2004-06-11">11 June 2004</date>
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The
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and only specimen was eviscerated for ecological studies, but is otherwise in good condition. Organs removed are archived with the specimen.
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<emphasis id="05D6515FFF8CFFFD584DD2C06B07FC5F" box="[333,538,946,971]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="51">Bellottia cryptica</emphasis>
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.
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Holotype. NCSM 44451. SL 42.
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<emphasis id="05D6515FFF8CFFFD5BFCD7206A6BF9FF" box="[764,886,1618,1643]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="51">B. robusta</emphasis>
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, in e. g. presence of spine on cleithrum and in fin ray and total vertebral counts, but differs by the more slender body (17.0
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17.5–23.0 % SL at origin of anal fin), origin of anal fin below dorsal fin ray 8
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10–15, precaudal vertebrae 10
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12 and no spine on preopercular crest
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1 spine in
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.
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It differs from
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4, and by having more rays in dorsal (92
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70–72), anal (84
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61) and pectoral (23
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<emphasis id="05D6515FFF8CFFFD5DF1D79F6C14F892" box="[1265,1289,1773,1798]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="51">vs</emphasis>
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19–20) fins. From
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<emphasis id="05D6515FFF8CFFFD59DFD6616857F8B8" box="[223,330,1811,1836]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="51">B. apoda</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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it differs by having 10 precaudal vertebrae
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<emphasis id="05D6515FFF8CFFFD5A52D6616A77F8B8" box="[850,874,1811,1836]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="51">vs</emphasis>
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12, spine on cleithrum
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<emphasis id="05D6515FFF8CFFFD5D84D6616D81F8B8" box="[1156,1180,1811,1836]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="51">vs</emphasis>
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spine absent and 5–6 long rakers on anterior gill arch
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||
<emphasis id="05D6515FFF8CFFFD5B1FD6486B25F8C7" box="[543,568,1850,1875]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="51">vs</emphasis>
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||
3–4. From
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<taxonomicName id="F0A2F6CEFF8CFFFD5BC5D6486A55F8C7" box="[709,840,1850,1875]" family="Bythitidae" genus="Xenobythites" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Ophidiiformes" pageId="6" pageNumber="51" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="armiger">
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<emphasis id="05D6515FFF8CFFFD5BC5D6486A55F8C7" box="[709,840,1850,1875]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="51">B. armiger</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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||
it differs by having 7 caudal fin rays (
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||
<emphasis id="05D6515FFF8CFFFD5C1CD6486C28F8C7" box="[1308,1333,1850,1875]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="51">vs</emphasis>
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6), total vertebrae 49 (
|
||
<emphasis id="05D6515FFF8CFFFD5839D613684CF8EE" box="[313,337,1889,1914]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="51">vs</emphasis>
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45) and no spine on preopercular crest (
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||
<emphasis id="05D6515FFF8CFFFD5A2BD6136A5EF8EE" box="[811,835,1889,1914]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="51">vs</emphasis>
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spine present).
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</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection id="7FB8DEC6FF8CFFF359C6D6F569F7FC22" lastPageId="8" lastPageNumber="53" pageId="6" pageNumber="51" type="description">
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<paragraph id="371D8D4DFF8CFFFD59C6D6F56DD5F835" blockId="6.[151,1436,1617,2030]" box="[198,1224,1927,1953]" pageId="6" pageNumber="51">
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<emphasis id="05D6515FFF8CFFFD59C6D6F56843F835" bold="true" box="[198,350,1927,1953]" pageId="6" pageNumber="51">Description.</emphasis>
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The principal meristic and morphometric characters are shown in
|
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<tableCitation id="7A20B8F6FF8CFFFD5D6AD6F56DDFF835" box="[1130,1218,1927,1953]" captionStart="TABLE 1" captionStartId="3.[151,239,460,484]" captionTargetBox="[151,1367,640,1772]" captionTargetPageId="3" captionText="TABLE 1. Meristic and morphometric characters of Atlantic Bellottia spp. (n = number of specimens examined)." httpUri="http://table.plazi.org/id/63DDDDC5FF89FFF85997D0BE6C5EFE70" pageId="6" pageNumber="51" tableUuid="63DDDDC5FF89FFF85997D0BE6C5EFE70">Table 1</tableCitation>
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.
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||
</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="371D8D4DFF8CFFFC59C5D6DC6B00FE73" blockId="6.[151,1436,1617,2030]" lastBlockId="7.[151,1437,152,487]" lastPageId="7" lastPageNumber="52" pageId="6" pageNumber="51">
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||
Body short, highest near base of pectoral fin, completely covered with oval ca.
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||
<quantity id="F05A20A8FF8CFFFD5D88D6DC6DFEF85C" box="[1160,1251,1966,1992]" metricMagnitude="-4" metricUnit="m" metricValue="7.0" pageId="6" pageNumber="51" unit="mm" value="0.7">0.7 mm</quantity>
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cycloid scales. Lateral line indistinct with anterior part apparently near dorsal margin of body. Head profile convex, cheek and gill cover scaled with rest of head naked. Mouth oblique with posterior part of maxilla vertically expanded ending just behind eye. Anterior nostril with low rim placed closer to upper lip than to posterior nostril. Small opercular spine strong and pointed, reaching beyond posterior margin of opercle. Lower edge of preopercle with four distinct spines, and no spine on preopercular crest (
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<figureCitation id="AF9991C8FF8DFFFC5AE6D07E6D30FEB2" box="[998,1069,268,294]" captionStart="FIGURE 3" captionStartId="4.[151,257,1971,1995]" captionTargetBox="[503,1083,1577,1947]" captionTargetId="figure@4.[503,1083,1577,1947]" captionTargetPageId="4" captionText="FIGURE 3. Bellottia robusta. Paratype. USNM 394118. SL 34. Head spines: 1 — spine on cleithrum, 2 — opercular spine, 3 — preopercular spines, 4 - spine on preopercular crest." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/186028/files/figure.png" pageId="7" pageNumber="52">Fig. 3</figureCitation>
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||
). Origin of dorsal fin above tip of pectoral fin, anal fin origin at midpoint of fish. Pectoral fin placed on mid-body level with peduncle higher than long. A prominent spine on cleithrum just above base of pectoral fin. Anterior gill arch with 3–4 platelike rakers on upper branch, one long raker in the angle between the two branches and lower branch with 4–5 long rakers followed by 8–9 plate-like rakers. Longest gill filament about 1/3 of longest raker. Two short, broad pseudobranchial filaments.
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||
</paragraph>
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||
<caption id="63DDDDC5FF8DFFFC5997D7066D7BF918" box="[151,1126,1652,1676]" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/186031/files/figure.png" pageId="7" pageNumber="52" targetBox="[290,1300,536,1600]" targetPageId="7">
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<paragraph id="371D8D4DFF8DFFFC5997D7066D7BF918" blockId="7.[151,1126,1652,1676]" box="[151,1126,1652,1676]" pageId="7" pageNumber="52">
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<emphasis id="05D6515FFF8DFFFC5997D7066807F918" bold="true" box="[151,282,1652,1676]" pageId="7" pageNumber="52">FIGURE 6.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="05D6515FFF8DFFFC5820D70768FCF918" box="[288,481,1653,1676]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="52">
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<taxonomicName id="F0A2F6CEFF8DFFFC5820D70768C0F918" box="[288,477,1653,1676]" class="Actinopterygii" family="Bythitidae" genus="Bellottia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Ophidiiformes" pageId="7" pageNumber="52" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="cryptica">Bellottia cryptica</taxonomicName>
|
||
.
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
Holotype. Right sagitta: A—median view, B—ventral view.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</caption>
|
||
<paragraph id="371D8D4DFF8DFFFC59C5D7C86BF9F8B5" blockId="7.[151,1437,1722,2019]" pageId="7" pageNumber="52">Head pores: The loose and partly torn skin makes it difficult to observe the head pores. The following large, distinct pores were seen: three behind and three below the eye and four pores on the mandible. A few whitish sensory papillae distributed over the head.</paragraph>
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||
<paragraph id="371D8D4DFF8DFFFC59C5D65C6A7EF877" blockId="7.[151,1437,1722,2019]" pageId="7" pageNumber="52">Dentition: Head of vomer slightly curved with about 10 very small, blunt teeth in one row. Posterior half of palatines edentate, anterior half with small teeth in one row. Posterior half of dentaries edentate, anterior half with one row increasing to 4–5 tooth rows at symphysis with large and pointed teeth in outer row. Premaxillaries with posterior fourth edentate and further anteriorly small teeth in one row increasing to 4–5 rows at symphysis with larger and pointed teeth in outer row.</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="371D8D4DFF82FFF359C5D1EA6C33FF6B" blockId="8.[151,1436,152,255]" pageId="8" pageNumber="53">Axial skeleton (based on radiographs): Tips of neural and haemal spines thin and pointed. Anterior neural spine one third the length of second spine. Neural spines 2–8 depressed. Bases of neural spines 6–8 enlarged. Parapophyses present on vertebrae 7–10 and pleural ribs on vertebrae 4–9. Epipleural ribs indistinct.</paragraph>
|
||
<caption id="63DDDDC5FF82FFF35997D3E36A4CFD3C" box="[151,849,657,681]" pageId="8" pageNumber="53">
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||
<paragraph id="371D8D4DFF82FFF35997D3E36A4CFD3C" blockId="8.[151,849,657,681]" box="[151,849,657,681]" pageId="8" pageNumber="53">
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||
<emphasis id="05D6515FFF82FFF35997D3E36804FD3D" bold="true" box="[151,281,657,681]" pageId="8" pageNumber="53">FIGURE 7.</emphasis>
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||
<emphasis id="05D6515FFF82FFF35820D3E368FCFD3C" box="[288,481,657,680]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="53">
|
||
<taxonomicName id="F0A2F6CEFF82FFF35820D3E368C0FD3C" box="[288,477,657,680]" class="Actinopterygii" family="Bythitidae" genus="Bellottia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Ophidiiformes" pageId="8" pageNumber="53" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="cryptica">Bellottia cryptica</taxonomicName>
|
||
.
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
Holotype. Anterior right gill arch.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</caption>
|
||
<paragraph id="371D8D4DFF82FFF359C5D3A868D1FCD6" blockId="8.[151,1436,730,1375]" pageId="8" pageNumber="53">
|
||
Otolith (
|
||
<figureCitation id="AF9991C8FF82FFF35828D3A8686CFD60" box="[296,369,730,756]" captionStart="FIGURE 6" captionStartId="7.[151,255,1652,1676]" captionTargetBox="[290,1300,536,1600]" captionTargetId="figure@7.[283,1312,490,1641]" captionTargetPageId="7" captionText="FIGURE 6. Bellottia cryptica. Holotype. Right sagitta: A—median view, B—ventral view." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/186031/files/figure.png" pageId="8" pageNumber="53">Fig. 6</figureCitation>
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||
): The
|
||
<quantity id="F05A20A8FF82FFF358BCD3A86B1DFD60" box="[444,512,730,756]" metricMagnitude="-3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="2.0" pageId="8" pageNumber="53" unit="mm" value="2.0">2 mm</quantity>
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||
elongate sagittal otolith is 1.5 times as long as high and twice as high as thick. Dorsal and ventral rim rounded, vaguely pointed anteriorly. Sulcus undivided and 1/3–1/4 the length of the otolith. No osteal channel.
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||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="371D8D4DFF82FFF359C5D23C69F7FC22" blockId="8.[151,1436,730,1375]" pageId="8" pageNumber="53">
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||
<emphasis id="05D6515FFF82FFF359C5D23C6846FCFC" bold="true" box="[197,347,846,872]" pageId="8" pageNumber="53">Coloration:</emphasis>
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||
<figureCitation id="AF9991C8FF82FFF35864D23D68B0FCFD" box="[356,429,847,873]" captionStart="FIGURE 5" captionStartId="6.[151,255,1548,1572]" captionTargetBox="[187,1385,1194,1481]" captionTargetId="figure@6.[175,1411,1143,1524]" captionTargetPageId="6" captionText="FIGURE 5. Bellottia cryptica. Holotype. NCSM 44451. SL 42." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/186030/files/figure.png" pageId="8" pageNumber="53">Fig. 5</figureCitation>
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||
shows the
|
||
<typeStatus id="E81933EFFF82FFF35B39D23D6BB9FCFD" box="[569,676,847,873]" pageId="8" pageNumber="53" type="holotype">holotype</typeStatus>
|
||
just after capture. The body is light brown, the margin of the vertical fins dark, the abdomen dark blue, the gill cover and side of head reddish brown and the eye is dark brown.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
<subSubSection id="7FB8DEC6FF82FFF359C6D2B068F2FB50" pageId="8" pageNumber="53" type="biology_ecology">
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||
<paragraph id="371D8D4DFF82FFF359C6D2B068F2FB50" blockId="8.[151,1436,730,1375]" pageId="8" pageNumber="53">
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<emphasis id="05D6515FFF82FFF359C6D2B06837FC48" bold="true" box="[198,298,962,988]" pageId="8" pageNumber="53">Biology.</emphasis>
|
||
The general benthic habitat in the area where this specimen was collected consisted of a rugged, rocky ledge that was colonized by scattered hard corals (mostly
|
||
<taxonomicName id="F0A2F6CEFF82FFF35AADD29B6D60FB96" box="[941,1149,1001,1026]" class="Anthozoa" family="Caryophylliidae" genus="Lophelia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scleractinia" pageId="8" pageNumber="53" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="pertusa">
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||
<emphasis id="05D6515FFF82FFF35AADD29B6D60FB96" box="[941,1149,1001,1026]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="53">Lophelia pertusa</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
), black corals, bamboo corals, sponges and hydroids. Bottom temperature was 7.8° C and salinity was 34.9 ppt. This specimen was swimming about
|
||
<quantity id="F05A20A8FF82FFF35864D54568D9FBC5" box="[356,452,1079,1105]" metricMagnitude="0" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.75" metricValueMax="2.0" metricValueMin="1.5" pageId="8" pageNumber="53" unit="m" value="1.75" valueMax="2.0" valueMin="1.5">1.5–2 m</quantity>
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||
above the ledge and was collected by suction sampler. A large amount of rotenone was spread in the area, and it seems likely this fish was escaping from that. We assume that this species is normally benthic and cryptic, similar to
|
||
<taxonomicName id="F0A2F6CEFF82FFF35B72D5F66BF6FB09" box="[626,747,1156,1181]" class="Actinopterygii" family="Bythitidae" genus="Bellottia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Ophidiiformes" pageId="8" pageNumber="53" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="robusta">
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<emphasis id="05D6515FFF82FFF35B72D5F66BF6FB09" box="[626,747,1156,1181]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="53">B. robusta</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
|
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. The stomach of this specimen was about one third full of unidentified crustacean parts.
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||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
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<subSubSection id="7FB8DEC6FF82FFF359C6D5A36AFFFB7F" box="[198,994,1233,1259]" pageId="8" pageNumber="53" type="etymology">
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<paragraph id="371D8D4DFF82FFF359C6D5A36AFFFB7F" blockId="8.[151,1436,730,1375]" box="[198,994,1233,1259]" pageId="8" pageNumber="53">
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<emphasis id="05D6515FFF82FFF359C6D5A3684EFB7F" bold="true" box="[198,339,1233,1259]" pageId="8" pageNumber="53">Etymology.</emphasis>
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||
The specific name,
|
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||
<emphasis id="05D6515FFF82FFF35B40D5A36BBDFB7E" box="[576,672,1233,1258]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="53">cryptica</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
|
||
, refers to its hidden nature.
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</paragraph>
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||
</subSubSection>
|
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<subSubSection id="7FB8DEC6FF82FFF359C6D58A6A85FACB" pageId="8" pageNumber="53" type="distribution">
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<paragraph id="371D8D4DFF82FFF359C6D58A6A85FACB" blockId="8.[151,1436,730,1375]" pageId="8" pageNumber="53">
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<emphasis id="05D6515FFF82FFF359C6D58A6842FA86" bold="true" box="[198,351,1272,1298]" pageId="8" pageNumber="53">Distribution</emphasis>
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(
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||
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||
). Known from a single specimen caught off southern
|
||
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,
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,
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||
, by suction-sampling from JSL at a depth of
|
||
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.
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</specimenCount>
|
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We predict that it has a wider distribution along the slope between North Carolina and southeastern Florida.
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</paragraph>
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||
</subSubSection>
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</treatment>
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</document> |