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specimens collected by O. B. on 21 March, 2004, and 3 June, 2003, from 
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. Species named for Dr. Itzchak Brickner who discovered it and its symbiosis with corals.
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is a flat, disc­shaped acoel, 
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in diameter and 
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thick, found closely appressed to the external surfaces of stony and soft corals (
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). It occurred in groups of non­overlapping individuals causing the corals it infested, especially lightly colored ones, to appear spotted. The body was circular in profile except for a small medial notch at the posterior margin where the reproductive organs lay. The animal appeared bronze­colored with small white speckles, deriving its coloration from abundant dinoflagellate endosymbionts and scattered white pigment spots. Fixed specimens were more ovate in shape (
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), narrowed at the anterior end and broader posteriorly, measuring 
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long, and lacked the pigment spots.
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Two 
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of endosymbionts were harbored in the parenchyma—a more abundant smaller 
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measuring about 
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and a larger 
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measuring about 
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(
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). Both 
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of endosymbionts lay scattered throughout the parenchyma and both were clearly identifiable as dinoflagellates by their permanently condensed chromosomes. By differences in the pyrenoid and by comparison with symbionts in 
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and other acoel species, the smaller 
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appeared to be a species of 
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, while the larger one appeared 
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­like (
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Barneah 
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2004
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).
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="49A6EAC2FF9AE4072676F97EEE82E5D1" bold="true" box="[264,388,1695,1719]" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">FIGURE 1</emphasis>
. 
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<emphasis id="49A6EAC2FF9AE40726EAF941ED67E5D1" box="[404,609,1696,1719]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">Waminoa brickneri</emphasis>
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A. Live animals infesting the coral 
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.
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B. Ventral view of fixed adult specimen. C. Anterior end of live freshly hatched juvenile. e, eyespots; st, statocyst.
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<emphasis id="49A6EAC2FF9DE4002676F956EE82E5A9" bold="true" box="[264,388,1719,1743]" pageId="4" pageNumber="5">FIGURE 2</emphasis>
: 
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<emphasis id="49A6EAC2FF9DE40026EDF959ED66E5A9" box="[403,608,1720,1743]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="5">Waminoa brickneri</emphasis>
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Reconstructions showing arrangement of organs. A. Dorsal reconstruction of whole organism. B. Sagittal reconstruction of whole organism. C. Sagittal reconstruction of reproductive organs. bn, bursal nozzle; br, brain; cm, cell mass; cop, male copulatory apparatus; e, egg; fsv, false seminal vesicle; fgp, female gonopore; m, mouth; mg, mucous gland; pg, penis glands; rh, rhabdoid gland cell; sb, seminal bursa; sv, seminal vesicle; t, testes; zx, zooxanthellae.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="49A6EAC2FF9CE4012676F946EE96E5D9" bold="true" box="[264,400,1703,1727]" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">FIGURE 3:</emphasis>
Light micrographs of sections of 
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showing position of reproductive organs. A. Seminal bursa and male copulatory organ in mid­sagittal section. B. Tangential section of seminal bursa showing one bursal nozzle projecting caudally. C. Male copulatory organ; arrows point to serous glands that flank male gonopore. bn, bursa nozzle; fgp, female gonopore; mg, mucus glands; mgp, male gonopore; rh, rhabdoid glands; pg, penis glands; sb, seminal bursa; sv, seminal vesicle; zx, zooxanthellae.
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The epidermis was generally transparent, fully ciliated, and richly glandular (
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; 
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). Especially abundant were rhabdoid glands in the dorsal body wall and lateral sides. Like rhabdoid glands in other acoels, these glands had narrowed apices that gave them a tooth­like appearance in sectioned material, and their rhabdiform secretory granules appeared striate. The ventral body wall was dominated by mucous glands having more amorphous secretory bodies; these mucous glands also occurred scattered in the dorsal body wall, but no rhabdoid glands occurred on the ventral side. Both rhabdoid and mucous glands stained metachromatically with toluidine blue, indicating presence of glycosaminoglycans; the mucous glands stained more darkly red, indicating more acidic polysaccharides. A third 
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of gland appeared to be a serous gland containing small spherical secretion granules staining dark blue with toluidine blue. It occurred sparsely scattered in both the dorsal and ventral body walls and more abundantly supraterminally at the anterior end; glands concentrated around the male gonopore appeared to be of the same 
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(
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).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="7B6D36D0FF9FE4022646FCADEC42E0D0" blockId="6.[264,1325,284,1870]" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">The mouth was ventral in the posterior third of the body length. The digestive syncytium contained no recognizable contents—specifically, no nematocysts, which would indicate feeding on the coral tissues, could be found.</paragraph>
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Although we found freshly hatched juveniles with a statocyst and paired eyes (
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), mature specimens of 
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appeared to lack both. Also lacking was a frontal organ. The brain appeared to be bilobed and lay insunk just under the epidermis close behind the anterior tip of the body (
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); the two main masses consisted of central neuropile and nucleated rind and were connected by a short medial commissure. Behind it a short distance was a globular mass of unknown function consisting of close­packed, palely staining spherical cells with large nuclei.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="7B6D36D0FF9FE4022646FB3DEE4FE6D8" blockId="6.[264,1325,284,1870]" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">
The copulatory organs produced a slightly thickened ridge medially in the terminal quarter of the body (
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). The seminal vesicle was most prominent, appearing white from contained sperm, and lay just in front of the posterior notch in the body margin. The seminal bursa, though unpigmented, continued the ridge anterior of the seminal vesicle, and the mouth and central digestive syncytium continued it anterior of that toward midbody.
</paragraph>
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The paired ovaries extended from about the second quarter of the body length posteriorly behind the mouth and were ventrally situated (
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). The vagina was ciliated and opened on the ventral body wall immediately anterior to the male gonopore (
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). It led to a seminal bursa consisting of an ill­defined syncytial mass with scattered and clumped sperm; extending from the lateral and anterior edges of the bursa were multiple sclerotized bursal nozzles. We could identify at least 4 of these small (
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diameter, 
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length) nozzles in sections of 
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and at least 8 each in sections of two other specimens.
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Paired testes lay dorsal and lateral to the ovaries (
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), and led posteriorly to the seminal vesicle. The seminal vesicle was walled by thin, loosely concentric muscles and reached to an indistinct penis papilla (
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). The center of the seminal vesicle in all specimens contained a mass of light­staining tissue interpreted as penis glands. Dark­staining, small­granuled serous glands surrounded the male gonopore. Flanking the seminal vesicle were prominent false seminal vesicles continuous with the tracts of sperm descending from the testes (
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).
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<paragraph id="7B6D36D0FF9EE4032646FE05ED22E1A0" blockId="7.[264,1324,284,830]" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">
The partial 18S rDNA sequence of 
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<emphasis id="49A6EAC2FF9EE403259BFE05ECC1E29B" box="[741,967,484,509]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">Waminoa brickneri</emphasis>
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, which we deposited in Gen­ Bank under accession number 
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, emerged as most closely related to “Acoel sp. strain Asp2” (AJ012526) and “Acoel sp. strain Asp3” (AJ012525) in a BLAST search of GenBank sequences. These two acoel species are described there as being supplied by the Coral Reef Research Foundation, 
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, and the latter one specifically as a “striped acoel, found on 
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coral.”
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Preliminary analysis of sequence data (unpublished) showed the sequence of 
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<emphasis id="49A6EAC2FF9EE40323BEFD35EE31E073" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">W. brickneri</emphasis>
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to group most closely to sequences of members of the family 
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(e.g., 
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sp.
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), not the 
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in which 
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is currently classified.
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