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<emphasis id="B97D1F6BED1EFFD4FF17231D7EEFBC58" bold="true" box="[151,460,567,593]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="113">Pseudoceros galatheensis</emphasis>
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,
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&amp;
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material.
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: One specimen (6.6 ×
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) as serial sections (7 Slides). Collected on
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, underneath rubble in intertidal area,
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(
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,
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(ZSI/ANRC-14849).
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: One specimen (6 ×
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) in 70% ethanol. Same as
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(ZSI/ANRC-14850).
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Great Nicobar
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,
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. Additional photographic record from
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(
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&amp;
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) and
<collectingCountry id="F31E83E9ED1EFFD4FE4F22737D1FBD7B" box="[463,572,857,882]" name="Indonesia" pageId="2" pageNumber="113">Indonesia</collectingCountry>
(
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).
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<emphasis id="B97D1F6BED1EFFD4FF4722577E62BD9F" bold="true" box="[199,321,893,918]" pageId="2" pageNumber="113">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
Body colour light blue, darker at rim. One thin bright yellowish-orange median stripe with darker outline, ends without touching posterior margin. Pseudotentacles small and dark blue in colour in continuation with margins.
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<emphasis id="B97D1F6BED1EFFD4FF4722C37E6DBA0B" bold="true" box="[199,334,1001,1026]" pageId="2" pageNumber="113">Etymology.</emphasis>
Species name refers to Galathea Wildlife Sanctuary in Great Nicobar
<collectingCountry id="F31E83E9ED1EFFD4FBEB22C37B8CBA0B" box="[1131,1199,1001,1026]" name="Iceland" pageId="2" pageNumber="113">Island</collectingCountry>
of
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, where
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specimens were collected (
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D)
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It is likely that it corresponds to
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<emphasis id="B97D1F6BED1EFFD4FD66251B7C57BA40" box="[742,884,1073,1097]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="113">Pseudoceros</emphasis>
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sp. 6
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and
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<emphasis id="B97D1F6BED1EFFD4FF17257F7E06BA64" box="[151,293,1109,1133]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="113">Pseudoceros</emphasis>
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sp. 6
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, CD-ROM; see taxonomic remarks below.
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Description.
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.
</emphasis>
Small, smooth, light blue in colour and terminally rounded. Margin dark blue without any ruffles. Thin, bright yellowish-orange median line starting from behind cerebral eyes and ending before posterior margin without touching it. Pseudotentacles small, formed by simple folds of the anterior margin and dark blue with presence of 12-14 scattered eyespots on each pseudotentacle on either side. Cerebral eyespots cluster with 25- 28 eyes. Ventrally light blue in colour.
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.
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Specimen
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long and
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wide at central portion. Translucent due to loss of colour on fixation. Median stripe faint but visible. Body wall thickness is 30-37 µm for dorsal and ventral epidermis. Total distance between pharyngeal mouth and sucker is
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and female gonopores
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apart from one another. Pharynx small and ruffled with 8 folds.
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pore
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from pharyngeal mouth. Few white spots (blue spots when live) are also visible in the preserved
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.
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Measurements refer to length in a
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long worm, the
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. Seminal vesicle (
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) elongated and oval (353×236 µm), thick walled, tapering towards anterior side and parallel to longitudinal body axis. Thickness of the wall varies from 33108 µm. Its lumen is lined by ciliated epithelium with nucleus at periphery. Prostatic vesicle (
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) small and round (177×126 µm), located slightly left from median line near base of penis papillae and anterior to seminal vesicle. Lumen is walled by muscular layer which is 2427 µm dense surrounded by 1719 µm thick distinct epithelium layer.
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atrium deep with many folds housing a stylet 197 µm (
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) long and opening ventrally by a wide male gonopore. Some cement glands are visible very near to posterior end of seminal vesicle but no female gonopore was observed in the sections. This may be due to immaturity of female reproductive structures of the specimen sectioned.
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<emphasis id="B97D1F6BED1EFFD4FF47260F7E9CB937" bold="true" box="[199,447,1829,1854]" pageId="2" pageNumber="113">Taxonomic remarks.</emphasis>
Presence of ruffled pharynx, male copulatory apparatus just behind pharyngeal cavity and free prostatic vesicle (
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) place
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<emphasis id="B97D1F6BED1EFFD4FD3726637CF8B968" box="[695,987,1865,1889]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="113">Pseudoceros galatheensis</emphasis>
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in the family
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while presence of characters such as one male pore; simple folds forming pseudotentacles; ruffled, round and oval pharynx (butterfly shape); equal distance between sucker and gonopores; and arrangement of eyes on pseudotentacles (
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;
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) place this newly described species in the genus
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.
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determined that due to intraspecific homogeneity of the reproductive structures in the genus
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, the colour patterns can be used to separate species. They separated 39 species under the genus
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in 6 groups according to colour pattern. Later in 1998, Newman and Cannon modified the arrangement with 8 groups comprising 56 species.
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is likely to fall under group 3 comprising 12 species with plain background and longitudinal stripes. However, there are at least 5 species with similar blue or purple background body colour.
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<emphasis id="B97D1F6BED1FFFD5FCE0263A7B28B92E" box="[864,1035,1807,1831]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="114">P. galatheensis</emphasis>
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differs from all having a distinct yellowish-orange median stripe (Table.1). The species
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<emphasis id="B97D1F6BED1FFFD5FCD5261E7B2DB942" box="[853,1038,1843,1867]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="114">P. perviolaceous</emphasis>
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is similar in terms of body colour but no median stripe is present.
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<emphasis id="B97D1F6BED1FFFD5FD1926727C2FB966" box="[665,780,1880,1903]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="114">P. gravieri</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="B97D1F6BED1FFFD5FC7926727BA7B966" box="[1017,1156,1880,1903]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="114">P. tristriatus</emphasis>
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also have blue-purple background colour but have multiple yellow orange stripes on dorsal surface.
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<emphasis id="B97D1F6BED1FFFD5FB3326567A0EB99A" box="[1203,1325,1915,1939]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="114">P. bifurcus</emphasis>
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is most similar to
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<emphasis id="B97D1F6BED1FFFD5FE1F268A7D64B9BE" box="[415,583,1951,1975]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="114">P. galatheensis</emphasis>
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in terms of body colour and margin but it differs having an elongate orange spot posterior to cerebral eyespot which continues to form a white median stripe outlined with dark burgundy (
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,
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&amp;
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).
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reported
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<emphasis id="B97D1F6BED19FFD3FB1721B37A30BEB9" box="[1175,1299,152,176]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="116">P. bifurcus</emphasis>
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from same geographical area (
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Andaman and
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) which also contains a dark bordered median stripe and a red spot right behind cerebral eyes which gradually continues in a median stripe. The newly described species differs from
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<emphasis id="B97D1F6BED19FFD3FF17202F7E2FBF15" box="[151,268,260,284]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="116">P. bifurcus</emphasis>
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reported from
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Andaman and
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by having a brighter orange median stripe without any dark colour border and without having any red spot behind cerebral eye cluster.
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<emphasis id="B97D1F6BED19FFD3FBA820037B8CBF49" box="[1064,1199,296,320]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="116">P. violaceus</emphasis>
(
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)
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is another species resembling our species with a yellow median stripe but it has a yellow marginal band which is not present in the newly described species.
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&amp;
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) reported this species as undescribed and rare.
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<emphasis id="B97D1F6BED1FFFD5FF1724D57E37B81D" bold="true" box="[151,276,1535,1557]" pageId="3" pageNumber="114">FIGURE 2.</emphasis>
A.
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<emphasis id="B97D1F6BED1FFFD5FDCB24D57DB4B81D" bold="true" box="[587,663,1535,1556]" pageId="3" pageNumber="114">sp. nov</emphasis>
.
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<emphasis id="B97D1F6BED1FFFD5FD25272A7DC6B81C" box="[677,741,1536,1557]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="114">in situ</emphasis>
from Galathea WLS; B. detail of ventral surface; C. dorsal surface showing cerebral and tentacular eyes. ce: cerebral eyes; fp: female gonopore; mp: male gonopore; p: pharynx; su: sucker; te: tentacular eyes.
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<emphasis id="B97D1F6BED18FFD2FF1726967E30B9D8" bold="true" box="[151,275,1980,2002]" pageId="4" pageNumber="115">FIGURE 3.</emphasis>
A &amp; B. Histological sections of reproductive structures. cg: cement glands; ma: male atrium; mp: male gonopore; p: pharynx; pp: penis papilla; pv: prostatic vesicle; sv: seminal vesicle; st: stylet
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<emphasis id="B97D1F6BED19FFD3FF1720F27E33BFE6" bold="true" box="[151,272,472,495]" pageId="5" pageNumber="116">TABLE. 1.</emphasis>
Comparison of
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<emphasis id="B97D1F6BED19FFD3FE3D20FD7DF3BFE6" box="[445,720,471,495]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="116">Pseudoceros galatheensis</emphasis>
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characters with similarly coloured species.
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Characters
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<emphasis id="B97D1F6BED19FFD3FB7223207EB2BC36" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="116">Pseudoceros gravieri</emphasis>
Meixner
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,
<emphasis id="B97D1F6BED19FFD3FD8223007A52BC36" box="[514,1393,553,575]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="116">
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<taxonomicName id="4C09B8FAED19FFD3FB7223037A52BC36" box="[1266,1393,553,575]" class="Rhabditophora" family="Pseudoceritidae" genus="Pseudoceros" kingdom="Animalia" order="Polycladida" pageId="5" pageNumber="116" phylum="Platyhelminthes" rank="species" species="galatheensis">galatheensis</taxonomicName>
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<emphasis id="B97D1F6BED19FFD3FAF523037AB0BC37" bold="true" box="[1397,1427,553,574]" pageId="5" pageNumber="116">sp.</emphasis>
1907
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(Schmarda,
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<emphasis id="B97D1F6BED19FFD3FB7223627A3DBC54" bold="true" box="[1266,1310,584,605]" pageId="5" pageNumber="116">nov.</emphasis>
1859
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)
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<paragraph id="8BB6C379ED19FFD3FD43228F7C41BDB3" blockId="5.[159,1427,522,1046]" box="[707,866,932,954]" pageId="5" pageNumber="116">eyes fading into</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="8BB6C379ED19FFD3FD43252A7C70BA1F" blockId="5.[159,1427,522,1046]" box="[707,851,1024,1046]" pageId="5" pageNumber="116">median stripe.</paragraph>
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locality
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Ella Islet, Ifaluk Benthedi,
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Islands
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Galathea
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Atoll,
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, Great Nicobar
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Distribution
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;
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; Africa;
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and Red So far only
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;
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Djibouti;
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of
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;
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locality
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. Indonesia Indonesia; Mozambi-que; Japan;
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(Photograp-hic
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New
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; record)
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Papua New Guinea
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New
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<paragraph id="8BB6C379ED19FFD3FEBF24CB7C43BBFE" blockId="5.[159,1423,1290,1558]" box="[319,864,1505,1527]" pageId="5" pageNumber="116">Philippines Philippines and</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BB6C379ED19FFD3FD43272A7C07B81F" blockId="5.[159,1423,1290,1558]" box="[707,804,1536,1558]" pageId="5" pageNumber="116">Thailand.</paragraph>
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