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?
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(
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)
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<emphasis id="B94EEAD0E50E927C434EA1F5DB7F3330" box="[125,380,250,274]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="464">Comparative discussion</emphasis>
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mentioned a presumably new species of
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from the Avachinska Bay and the
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of Kronotski, on the east coast of Kamchatka, and from the Komandorskyi Archipelago, namely
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The preserved specimens measured 59×
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, with rounded front and hind end. Dorsal surface red-brown, ventral surface pale. The posterior gut trunks fuse in the hind end of the body. Testes numerous, distributed between the gut diverticula and occurring throughout the body length. According to
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, the oviducts fuse posterior to the male copulatory apparatus to form a common oviduct, which subsequently gives rise to three ducts (
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): two receptacular ducts, opening into the anterior copulatory bursa, and the female genital duct that communicates with the atrium. According to
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, common oviduct and female genital duct are penetrated by shell glands.
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In our opinion, Poljakovas reconstruction of the female copulatory apparatus most likely is not fully correct. In the two species of the genus
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that have been described up to the present, the posterior, expanded portions of the receptacular ducts do not communicate directly with the female genital duct. The swollen portions of the receptacular ducts only receive a short, narrow branch of the oviduct before the latter communicates with the female genital duct (cf.
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: pl. 1, figure 4;
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: figures 101104). In her reconstruction,
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may have been misled by
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description of the copulatory apparatus of
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Bergendal, 1890
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, since she bases her description of this species on the account of these workers and reproduces their reconstruction figure of the copulatory complex (incorrectly, Poljakova refers to Ball, 1973). However, Tomkiewicz and Balls reconstruction is incorrect in that it describes a direct connection between the expanded portions of the receptacular ducts and the female genital duct, as already noted by
<bibRefCitation id="EFAB4B33E50E927C4032A51ADE06360F" author="Sluys R &amp; Ball IR" box="[769,1029,1045,1069]" pageId="21" pageNumber="464" pagination="3 - 10" refId="ref9173" refString="Sluys R, Ball IR. 1983. On the status and identity of Procerodes warreni (Girard, 1850) (Turbellaria, Tricladida, Maricola). Mitteillungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 59: 3 - 10." type="journal article" year="1983">Sluys and Ball (1983)</bibRefCitation>
.
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On the basis of
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description it is difficult to decide whether her specimens from the Far East represent
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<emphasis id="B94EEAD0E50E927C4177A558D8BD364C" box="[580,702,1110,1134]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="464">U. vulgaris</emphasis>
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,
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<emphasis id="B94EEAD0E50E927C41FDA558D94C364C" box="[718,847,1110,1134]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="464">U. pacificus</emphasis>
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or a third, new species. For
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<emphasis id="B94EEAD0E50E927C434EA578DB0736AC" box="[125,260,1142,1166]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="464">U. pacificus</emphasis>
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a light brown or reddish brown dorsal surface was reported, which is in agreement with the Kamchatkan specimens, while the dorsal body surface of
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varies from milky white to pale brown. In
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the posterior sections of the receptacular ducts may be expanded to greater or lesser extent and thus may approach the generally smaller expansions in
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as well as those reported by
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for the Russian animals. According to
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, diagnostic features for
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are the testes occupying the entire dorso-ventral space (contrasting with the ventral follicles in
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), and the absence of an anterior copulatory bursa (contrasting with the welldeveloped bursa in
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<emphasis id="B94EEAD0E50E927C4258A475DBEB37B0" box="[363,488,1402,1426]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="464">U. vulgaris</emphasis>
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). Unfortunately,
<bibRefCitation id="EFAB4B33E50E927C418EA475D98B37B0" author="Poljakova AA" box="[701,904,1402,1426]" pageId="21" pageNumber="464" refId="ref8966" refString="Poljakova AA. 1991. Tricladida maricola in the Seas of the USSR / White Sea, Black Sea and Far Eastern Sea. Unpublished student report, University of Kazan, Chair of Invertebrate Zoology, 57 p. (in Russian)." type="book" year="1991">Poljakova (1991)</bibRefCitation>
does not describe the vertical dimension of the testes, but a photomicrograph of a histological section (her figure 16A) seems to suggest that a testis follicle extends considerably towards the dorsal body surface. In
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<emphasis id="B94EEAD0E50E927C43CEA4D3DB7E37D1" box="[253,381,1499,1523]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="464">U. pacificus</emphasis>
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the receptacular ducts fuse to form a common duct that opens to the exterior, whereas in
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<emphasis id="B94EEAD0E50E927C4255A4F3DBDC3431" box="[358,479,1531,1555]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="464">U. vulgaris</emphasis>
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they open into an anterior bursa that subsequently opens to the outside. It must be noted that re-examination of the
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material of
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revealed that the receptacular ducts do not merely fuse to form a common duct but expand before uniting and/or open into a small expansion (
<figureCitation id="13012A47E50E927C41EAA752D9503457" box="[729,851,1629,1653]" captionStart="Figures 2830" captionStartId="20.[138,207,1113,1132]" captionTargetBox="[191,1130,133,1075]" captionTargetId="figure-150@20.[191,1132,133,1077]" captionTargetPageId="20" captionText="Figures 2830. Procerodes plebeius and Uteriporus pacificus? (28) P. plebeius, V.Pl. 954.2, photomicrograph of penial papilla. (29) U. pacificus?, sagittal reconstruction of the copulatory apparatus (from Poljakova, 1991: figure 15B; labels adapted according to current terminology). (30) U. pacificus, specimen BC 7-5 (ZMA), photomicrograph of horizontal section of the receptacular duct; anterior to the left." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5221483" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5221483/files/figure.png" pageId="21" pageNumber="464">Figure 30</figureCitation>
). In the Russian specimens there seems to be an anterior bursa, which is suggested in Poljakovas reconstruction drawing (
<figureCitation id="13012A47E50D927F43CBA2D7DB6D31D2" box="[248,366,984,1008]" captionStart="Figures 2830" captionStartId="20.[138,207,1113,1132]" captionTargetBox="[191,1130,133,1075]" captionTargetId="figure-150@20.[191,1132,133,1077]" captionTargetPageId="20" captionText="Figures 2830. Procerodes plebeius and Uteriporus pacificus? (28) P. plebeius, V.Pl. 954.2, photomicrograph of penial papilla. (29) U. pacificus?, sagittal reconstruction of the copulatory apparatus (from Poljakova, 1991: figure 15B; labels adapted according to current terminology). (30) U. pacificus, specimen BC 7-5 (ZMA), photomicrograph of horizontal section of the receptacular duct; anterior to the left." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5221483" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5221483/files/figure.png" pageId="22" pageNumber="465">Figure 29</figureCitation>
) but also in a series of photomicrographs of serial sections (her figure 17). However, it must be noted that her reconstruction is not drawn to scale and that the photomicrographs show a distinct duct leading to the second, anterior gonopore. Such a duct is present in
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, whereas in
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<emphasis id="B94EEAD0E50D927F41B8A536D90B3672" box="[651,776,1080,1104]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="465">U. vulgaris</emphasis>
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there is only a short and shallow opening of the anterior bursa to the exterior (cf.
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: pl. 4, figure 32;
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: pl. 4, figure F).
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<paragraph id="8B8536C2E50D927F43B9A226DADF31AE" blockId="22.[138,1185,809,908]" pageId="22" pageNumber="465">Figure 31. Map of species richness on an equal area grid map from the Worldmap program. Maximum richness shown in black and minimum in light grey, with intermediate scores grouped into grey-scale classes of approximately equal numbers of grid cells. Numbers within cells denote number of species recorded within that grid cell.</paragraph>
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Although we do not consider it to be impossible that an Atlantic species, like
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, also occurs on the coasts of the Bering Sea, we do here attribute Poljakovas animals to the species
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, albeit with some reservations in view of the absence of more detailed anatomical information. This record considerably extends the range of
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since the species was originally recorded for the coast of
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,
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(
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).
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