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(
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,
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[151,385,331,357]" pageId="3" pageNumber="592">Material examined.</emphasis>
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,329,367,393]" pageId="3" pageNumber="592">Sequences.</emphasis>
From
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: see
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. From
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External features of
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, cylindrical, slender, firm, narrowing at anterior and posterior ends, with pale-yellow background postcerebrally (
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). Head bluntly round anteriorly in dorsal view, not demarcated from body, whitish opaque in background colour, ornamented with a few, small, brownish dots on tip; single, wide, brownish, transverse cephalic colour band encircling all around head, with posterior edge mid-dorsally directing backward (
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); another transverse colour band encircling posterior portion of head, deep brown in colour, mid-dorsally notched at anterior edge, situated post-cerebrally at short distance from cephalic colour band except on mid-ventral portion where these two bands are continuous (
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); cephalic furrow not notable; with four squarely arranged orange ocelli contained within transverse cephalic colour band (
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). Behind deep-coloured post-cerebral transverse colour band, additional 18 transverse bands present throughout body from posterior region of head to tail end, tightly arranged one after another, consisting of brown flecks; single, deep brown spot present on mid-dorsal portion of each of 18 bands (
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).
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, photographs (AH) and photomicrographs (I, J) taken in anaesthetised state. A, entire body, dorsal view; B, entire body, ventral view; C, entire body, left lateral view; D, entire body, ventral view; E, G, magnification of head, dorsal view; F, H, magnification of head, ventral view; I, head in squeezed preparation; J, stylet apparatus. A, B, E, F, ICHUM 8405 (holotype); C, D, G, HJ, ICHUM 8406 (paratype). Abbreviations: ao, anterior ocelli; as, accessory stylet; b, basis; br, brain; cs, central stylet; lb, lateral blood vessel; p, proboscis; po, posterior ocelli. Scale bars: AD, 2 mm; EH, 1 mm; I, J, 50 µm.
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External features of
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in living state (
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in length,
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in width; tip of head less pigmented than
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; posterior end of body narrowed (
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); cephalic colour band light brown; post-cerebral colour band lighter than that of
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, with anterior edge mid-dorsally projected forward but not continuous with cephalic colour band on any place (
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); ocelli more clearly visible with anterior pair smaller than posterior (
<figureCitation box="[464,612,295,321]" captionStart="FIGURE 1" captionStartId="3.[152,255,1789,1813]" captionTargetBox="[151,1436,883,1764]" captionTargetId="figure-242@3.[151,1436,883,1764]" captionTargetPageId="3" captionText="FIGURE 1. Oerstedia fuscosparsa sp. nov., photographs (AH) and photomicrographs (I, J) taken in anaesthetised state. A, entire body, dorsal view; B, entire body, ventral view; C, entire body, left lateral view; D, entire body, ventral view; E, G, magnification of head, dorsal view; F, H, magnification of head, ventral view; I, head in squeezed preparation; J, stylet apparatus. A, B, E, F, ICHUM 8405 (holotype); C, D, G, HJ, ICHUM 8406 (paratype). Abbreviations: ao, anterior ocelli; as, accessory stylet; b, basis; br, brain; cs, central stylet; lb, lateral blood vessel; p, proboscis; po, posterior ocelli. Scale bars: AD, 2 mm; EH, 1 mm; I, J, 50 µm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7701408" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7701408/files/figure.png" pageId="4" pageNumber="593">Fig. 1G, H, I</figureCitation>
). Body covered with brown patches (
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), but transverse banding pattern not apparent in posterior body; without mid-dorsal deep brown spots (
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).
</paragraph>
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<emphasis box="[199,571,367,393]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="593">
Internal morphology in
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.
</emphasis>
Proboscis nerves not distinct (
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). Central stylet 42.0 µm in length; basis 36.7 µm in length, 11.215.2 µm in width, cylindrical in shape, bluntly round posteriorly; two accessory pouches, each containing 57 accessory stylets (
<figureCitation box="[586,665,439,465]" captionStart="FIGURE 1" captionStartId="3.[152,255,1789,1813]" captionTargetBox="[151,1436,883,1764]" captionTargetId="figure-242@3.[151,1436,883,1764]" captionTargetPageId="3" captionText="FIGURE 1. Oerstedia fuscosparsa sp. nov., photographs (AH) and photomicrographs (I, J) taken in anaesthetised state. A, entire body, dorsal view; B, entire body, ventral view; C, entire body, left lateral view; D, entire body, ventral view; E, G, magnification of head, dorsal view; F, H, magnification of head, ventral view; I, head in squeezed preparation; J, stylet apparatus. A, B, E, F, ICHUM 8405 (holotype); C, D, G, HJ, ICHUM 8406 (paratype). Abbreviations: ao, anterior ocelli; as, accessory stylet; b, basis; br, brain; cs, central stylet; lb, lateral blood vessel; p, proboscis; po, posterior ocelli. Scale bars: AD, 2 mm; EH, 1 mm; I, J, 50 µm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7701408" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7701408/files/figure.png" pageId="4" pageNumber="593">Fig. 1J</figureCitation>
). Accessory lateral nerves present (
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).
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</subSubSection>
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<paragraph blockId="4.[151,1437,151,2013]" pageId="4" pageNumber="593">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,334,475,501]" pageId="4" pageNumber="593">Etymology.</emphasis>
The new specific name is a participle of the 1st/2nd declension (-
<emphasis box="[1065,1090,475,500]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="593">us</emphasis>
, -
<emphasis box="[1113,1127,475,500]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="593">a</emphasis>
, -
<emphasis box="[1150,1184,475,500]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="593">um</emphasis>
), a combination of the Latin words
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(meaning “dark”, “dim”, “black”, “brown”) and
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(“scattered”, “sprinkled”, “spotted”, “freckled”; from the verb
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, meaning “[I] scatter”). In combination,
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<emphasis box="[982,1116,547,573]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="593">fuscosparsa</emphasis>
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pertains to the the brownish spots/freckles scattered throughout the body of the species.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="4" pageNumber="593" type="diagnosis">
<paragraph blockId="4.[151,1437,151,2013]" pageId="4" pageNumber="593">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,322,618,644]" pageId="4" pageNumber="593">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
An
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<emphasis box="[370,480,619,645]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="593">Oerstedia</emphasis>
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with a brownish cephalic colour band, a deep brown post-cerebral colour band in the posterior head region, and four orange ocelli. Post-cerebrally, the body is sprinkled with brownish aggregated spots or freckles in pale-yellow background forming transverse bands. Internally, the proboscis nerves are not distinct and accessory lateral nerves are present.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,563,762,789]" pageId="4" pageNumber="593">Type locality and distribution.</emphasis>
At present, the species is only known from its type locality along the Pacific coast of Honshu, off Kouyatsu, Tateyema,
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,
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, between
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,
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and
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,
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,
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deep, mudstone and sandy bottom; the
<emphasis box="[909,981,835,860]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="593">in-situ</emphasis>
water temperature was 1820°C when the
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and the
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were collected by Ryuta Yoshida. From this place,
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<emphasis box="[1087,1354,871,897]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="593">Tetrastemma parallelos</emphasis>
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has also been collected (
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Abato
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2022
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).
</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,717,942,969]" pageId="4" pageNumber="593">Genetic distance and molecular phylogeny.</emphasis>
The
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of
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<emphasis box="[985,1155,943,969]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="593">O. fuscosparsa</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis bold="true" box="[1164,1255,943,969]" pageId="4" pageNumber="593">
<taxonomicNameLabel box="[1164,1255,943,969]" pageId="4" pageNumber="593" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
reported in this paper would belong to the same species with uncorrected COI
<emphasis box="[870,884,979,1004]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="593">p</emphasis>
-distance value of 0.004 (0.4%) as to the 658-bp partial COI region, much lower than the 3%-rule COI genetic distance to infer that two ribbon worms are of different species (
<bibRefCitation author="Sundberg, P. &amp; Kvist, S. &amp; Strand, M." box="[245,481,1051,1077]" pageId="4" pageNumber="593" pagination="0155541" refId="ref6394" refString="Sundberg, P., Kvist, S. &amp; Strand, M. (2016) Evaluating the utility of single-locus DNA barcoding for the identification of ribbon worms (phylum Nemertea). PLoS ONE, 11 (5), e 0155541. https: // doi. org / 10.1371 / journal. pone. 0155541" type="journal article" year="2016">
Sundberg
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2016
</bibRefCitation>
). We therefore regard that the difference in pigmentation pattern observed between the two individuals in this paper is an intraspecific variation commonly observed among other
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<emphasis box="[1171,1281,1087,1113]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="593">Oerstedia</emphasis>
species.
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</paragraph>
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The phylogenetic analysis shows that our species forms a highly supported subclade with
<taxonomicName box="[1236,1436,1123,1149]" pageId="4" pageNumber="593">
<emphasis box="[1236,1346,1123,1149]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="593">Oerstedia</emphasis>
species
</taxonomicName>
collected from Simushir,
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<emphasis box="[431,555,1159,1185]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="593">O. dorsalis</emphasis>
sensu Iwata
</taxonomicName>
, and
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<emphasis box="[750,893,1159,1185]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="593">O. phoresiae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Further, it indicates that
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<emphasis box="[1175,1195,1159,1185]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="593">O</emphasis>
.
<emphasis box="[1208,1342,1159,1185]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="593">fuscosparsa</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis bold="true" box="[1348,1436,1159,1185]" pageId="4" pageNumber="593">
<taxonomicNameLabel box="[1348,1436,1159,1185]" pageId="4" pageNumber="593" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
is sister to
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<emphasis box="[272,292,1195,1221]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="593">O</emphasis>
.
<emphasis box="[306,415,1195,1221]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="593">phoresiae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, suggesting its placement within the
<taxonomicName authorityName="Chernyshev" authorityYear="1993" box="[832,1005,1195,1221]" class="Hoplonemertea" family="Tetrastemmatidae" genus="Paroerstediella" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Monostilifera" pageId="4" pageNumber="593" phylum="Nemertea" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[832,1005,1195,1221]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="593">Paroerstediella</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
clade sensu
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of the genus
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<emphasis box="[374,484,1231,1257]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="593">Oerstedia</emphasis>
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(
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). This also means that our species is more closely related to
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<emphasis box="[1239,1259,1231,1257]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="593">O</emphasis>
.
<emphasis box="[1272,1381,1231,1257]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="593">phoresiae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
than to
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<emphasis box="[182,202,1267,1293]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="593">O</emphasis>
.
<emphasis box="[219,309,1267,1293]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="593">dorsalis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel box="[319,370,1267,1293]" pageId="4" pageNumber="593" sensu="stricto">s.str.</taxonomicNameLabel>
and is grouped with other species from the Northwest Pacific. COI
<emphasis box="[1161,1175,1267,1292]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="593">p</emphasis>
-distances between our species and
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<emphasis box="[286,430,1303,1329]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="593">O. phoresiae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and with
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<emphasis box="[541,561,1303,1329]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="593">O</emphasis>
.
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</taxonomicName>
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is 8.5% and 11.9%, respectively.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,444,1338,1365]" pageId="4" pageNumber="593">Taxonomic remarks.</emphasis>
Of the 29 valid species of
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<emphasis box="[740,850,1339,1365]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="593">Oerstedia</emphasis>
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, two species have previously been known to possess transverse bands in the body; these are
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<emphasis box="[604,724,1375,1401]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="593">O. oculata</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis box="[782,974,1375,1401]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="593">Oerstedia striata</emphasis>
Sundberg, 1988
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, from both of which
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="593">O. fuscosparsa</emphasis>
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</emphasis>
can be distinguished in external features.
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<emphasis box="[852,1076,1411,1437]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="593">Oerstedia polyorbis</emphasis>
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(
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;
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;
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Akhmatova
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) and
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<emphasis box="[472,580,1447,1473]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="593">O. striata</emphasis>
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are banded only dorsally, unlike
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<emphasis box="[953,1121,1447,1473]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="593">O. fuscosparsa</emphasis>
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in which the bands are dorsoventrally continuous. In addition, one of the colour morphs of
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<emphasis box="[965,1173,1483,1509]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="593">Oerstedia dorsalis</emphasis>
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(called “morph n”) was described to contain reddish-brown stripes/blotches transversally, although details on the continuity of these stripes were not given in
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Sundberg
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. However, these two “morph n” specimens are not closely related to the new species as supported by the phylogenetic analysis, with these “morph n” specimens being placed in a different clade (
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).
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="4.[151,1437,151,2013]" pageId="4" pageNumber="593">
DNA-based taxonomy for the members of the genus
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seems to be indispensable for the reliable establishment of new species since polymorphism and intraspecific variation are predominant among the species in the genus (
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, 1988;
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Sundberg
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Akhmatova
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). Polymorphism and intraspecific variation in
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<emphasis box="[288,398,1807,1833]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="593">Oerstedia</emphasis>
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often result in problematic taxonomy; these can hide some cryptic species or mistakenly be used as evidence for species delineation (Sundberg 1998;
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Sundberg
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;
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Akhmatova
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). The
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of
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<emphasis box="[305,557,1879,1905]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="593">Oerstedia fuscosparsa</emphasis>
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reported in this paper show distinct pigmentation patterns in the head and body; the
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has deep brownish cephalic pigmentation, apparent transverse bands in the body, and deep brownish spots mid dorsally while the
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has light brown cephalic pigmentation, no obvious transverse bands in the posterior body, and no deep brownish spots mid-dorsally.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[152,279,1922,1946]" pageId="5" pageNumber="594">FIGURE 2.</emphasis>
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, photomicrographs of transverse histological sections, ICHUM 8405 (holotype). A, posterior foregut region; B, intestinal region. Abbreviations: al, accessory lateral nerve; ic, intestinal caecal lumen; pr, proboscis; py, pylorus. Scale bars: A, B, 50 µm.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[152,280,894,918]" pageId="6" pageNumber="595">FIGURE 3.</emphasis>
Rooted Bayesian phylogenetic tree showing the position of
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within the genus based on concatenated sequences of five gene markers (16S, 18S, 28S, COI, and H3). Number at each node represents Bayesian posterior probability (PP)/IQTree maximum-likelihood ultrafast bootstrap value (UFBoot)/RAxML maximum-likelihood bootstrap value (BS). Solid circles indicate full support (1.00 PP/100% UFBoot/100% BS); open circles indicate 1.00 PP; solid diamonds mean 1.00 PP/100% UFBoot; open diamonds show 0.99 PP.
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In traditional
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<emphasis box="[351,461,1108,1134]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="595">Oerstedia</emphasis>
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taxonomy, these obvious pigmentation differences could have been treated as evidence for different species (
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Sundberg
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); however, the COI barcode sequences from the
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and the
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strongly suggested that both would belong to the same species despite the differences in external appearance. Here, we demonstrate, using our species, the necessity and importance of DNA-based taxonomy in the genus
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<emphasis box="[789,899,1252,1278]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="595">Oerstedia</emphasis>
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. The taxonomy of other selected polymorphic congeners of the genus has been verified using barcode sequences of these species (
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). With the recent developments in
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taxonomy, it is, therefore, appropriate to investigate polymorphism and intraspecific variation in those already named species using both morphological and barcode sequence data.
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