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and throughout; taxonomy and phylogeny.
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locality
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, off the coast of
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.
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No
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or other material known.
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Body to about
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BH,
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BD; with two asymmetrical tentacles on each pedalium; finger­like gastric saccules rudimentary.
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Description (electronically translated from
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, with as much of the original terminology as possible in order to minimize erroneous interpretation)
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Specielle description:
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is interesting as the simplest under the
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until now examined, which directly joins this Subfamily with the
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. In total, this
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resembles more of a
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than a
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, but must be put more to the last genus however, since each pedalium carries 2 tentacles. Indeed this condition also occurs as individual variation with the 4­tentacled
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however (P. 443). Velarium and gonads is similarly like with
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(P. 447).
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Size: Umbrella­width
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., umbrella­height
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<bibRefCitation id="EFE74B7EFFCF4B38A9097AD9FE5FFE13" author="Thiel, M. E." box="[312,459,433,459]" pageId="11" pageNumber="12" pagination="1 - 34" refId="ref20646" refString="Thiel, M. E. (1928) Die Scyphomedusen des Zoolgischen Staatsinstituts und Zoologischen Museums in Hamburg. 1. Cubomedusae, Stauromedusae und Coronatae. Zoologischen Staatsinstitut und Museum in Hamburg Mitteilungen, 43, 1 - 34." type="journal article" year="1928">Thiel (1928)</bibRefCitation>
came to a most curious conclusion about this species, believing it to be an immature
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<emphasis id="B902EA9DFFCF4B38A9B17AB1FD23FE2A" box="[384,695,473,498]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">Chiropsalmus quadrigatus</emphasis>
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, even though
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<emphasis id="B902EA9DFFCF4B38AB6C7AB1FC61FE2A" box="[861,1013,473,498]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">C. zygonema</emphasis>
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with apparently immature characters is larger than the comparable specimen of
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<emphasis id="B902EA9DFFCF4B38AB4F7969FBBAFDC2" box="[894,1070,513,538]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">C. quadrigatus</emphasis>
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. One might logically expect a progressive pattern of development among conspecifics. Thiel also noted that the two species are widely separated geographically, but dismissed it by stating that many cubozoans have wide distributions. In fact, many of the previously assumed widespread species are proving to be comprised of numerous distinct species, and at least in
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, chirodropid and chiropsalmid species have very tight distributions.
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Based on distribution,
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<emphasis id="B902EA9DFFCF4B38AA707999FC91FCD2" box="[577,773,753,778]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">C. quadrumanus</emphasis>
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would have been a better assumption, because at least
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<emphasis id="B902EA9DFFCF4B38A95B7871FDA6FCEA" box="[362,562,793,818]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">C. quadrumanus</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="B902EA9DFFCF4B38AA457871FC9BFCEA" box="[628,783,793,818]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">C. zygonema</emphasis>
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are known from the same ocean (Atlantic). However, an ideal method of identification would have been based on structural characters, and
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<emphasis id="B902EA9DFFCF4B38A9F57801FDC9FC5A" box="[452,605,873,898]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">C. zygonema</emphasis>
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with blade­like pedalia would not have been attributable to any other species. Furthermore, with two fingers and tentacles, it would not have seemed similar to other species, which typically have 46 at a similar size (e.g.,
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<emphasis id="B902EA9DFFCF4B38AC9078D1FECBFC22" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">Chiropsella bronzie</emphasis>
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(see below) and
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<emphasis id="B902EA9DFFCF4B38AAEF7889FC3DFC22" box="[734,937,993,1018]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">Chironex fleckeri</emphasis>
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, unpublished notes).
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<paragraph id="8BC9368FFFCF4B38A9097F61FC71FA53" blockId="11.[264,1323,393,1419]" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">
I am provisionally keeping
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<emphasis id="B902EA9DFFCF4B38AA4B7F61FC86FBFA" box="[634,786,1033,1058]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">C. zygonema</emphasis>
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in the restricted genus
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<emphasis id="B902EA9DFFCF4B38AC127F61FB52FBFA" box="[1059,1222,1033,1058]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">Chiropsalmus</emphasis>
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because I suspect that
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<emphasis id="B902EA9DFFCF4B38A9867F59FDB7FB92" box="[439,547,1073,1098]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">C. alipes</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="A23157E6FFCF4B38AA1E7F59FDE6FB93" box="[559,626,1073,1099]" pageId="11" pageNumber="12" rank="species">n. sp.</taxonomicNameLabel>
(described below) may hold the key to its identity. This peculiar form from the Pacific coast of southern
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is small at maturity, has exumbrellar warts like
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<emphasis id="B902EA9DFFCF4B38AA167FE9FD7BFB42" box="[551,751,1153,1178]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">C. quadrumanus</emphasis>
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, and has very peculiar carybdeid­like pedalia, such as those described for
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<emphasis id="B902EA9DFFCF4B38AA7A7FC1FD77FB1A" box="[587,739,1193,1218]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">C. zygonema</emphasis>
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. Whether the Mexican form and
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<emphasis id="B902EA9DFFCF4B38AC597FC1FB6BFB1A" box="[1128,1279,1193,1218]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">C. zygonema</emphasis>
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are identical will probably never be known, because there is no known
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material of
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<emphasis id="B902EA9DFFCF4B38AD217FB9FEE9FACA" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">C. zygonema</emphasis>
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, and Haeckel left no drawings and only a very brief description. I think the most stable course of action is to regard this species as provisionally valid, but to recognize that it is currently represented by an unrecognizable juvenile form, and thus needs to be redescribed based on an adult form from near the
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locality.
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