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<emphasis id="AB98E97FFFB8FF896BD4FD91F6877D9D" bold="true" box="[151,430,727,753]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="42">Cucumella triperforata</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="AB98E97FFFB8FF896BD4FC58F6387C5B" bold="true" box="[151,273,798,823]" pageId="2" pageNumber="42">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
Small, U- to barrel-shaped dactylochirotid holothuroid with few sparsely distributed tube feet and 12 unequal tentacles with one or two conspicuously larger than the others. Calcareous ring simple, no posterior bifurcations/prolongations to radial plates. Body wall ossicles exclusively tables with trilobed, trilocular, smooth disc, and a solid spire of three fused pillars diverging in 2-(3) non-denticulate processes/teeth. Plates absent.
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<emphasis id="AB98E97FFFB8FF896B84FCE9F6677CAB" bold="true" box="[199,334,943,967]" pageId="2" pageNumber="42">Etymology.</emphasis>
The specific name is with reference to the exclusive trilocular table discs which characterize this species.
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<emphasis id="AB98E97FFFB8FF896B84FCB0F6987B63" bold="true" box="[199,433,1014,1039]" pageId="2" pageNumber="42">Material examined.</emphasis>
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, SAM-A28114, off Port St. Johns-East London area,
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,
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,
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, R.V. Meiring Naude, St. SM 226,
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, 710
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, Ƥ.
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, SAM-A28115, same data as
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, 7 spec (2 dissected).
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Description of
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.
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Specimen (
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D) small, female, distinctly U-shaped, length
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along ventral surface, breadth across mid-body
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. Preserved colouration off-white. Posterior end much narrower than anterior. Mouth and anus terminal, the latter surrounded by five unequal radial papillae of which two are conspicuously larger than the rest. Tentacles 12 (
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F), finger-shaped (digitate), retracted, of three sizes, two large (longer one
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, coiled), two of medium size and eight very small. Tube feet scarce, only 15 located in the middle of the bulbous part of body, in three rows on the ventral ambulacra, none dorsally or at extreme anterior or posterior ends. Largest tube foot
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; suckers reduced. Skin soft, thin, densely packed with ossicles clearly visible through stereoscope, table spires project well out of body wall rendering it rough to the touch.
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Calcareous ring (
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C) low, simple, without posterior processes/bifurcations to radial plates, radial and interradial plates of more or less equal size; anterior projections of radial plates bifid, posterior margin deeply concave; interradial plates triangular, each with blunt anterior projection and slightly concave posterior margin. Stone canal (
<figureCitation id="01D729E8FFB8FF896BA1FAA8F616796A" box="[226,319,1518,1542]" captionStart="FIGURE 1" captionStartId="3.[151,250,1892,1915]" captionTargetBox="[151,1366,214,1869]" captionTargetId="figure@3.[151,1436,195,1964]" captionTargetPageId="3" captionText="FIGURE 1. Cucumella triperforata n. sp. Holotype. A. tables from body wall; B. spires of tables; C. part of calcareous ring (ir = interradial plate; r = radial plate); D. holotype entire (an = anus; m = mouth); E. composite internal structure (diagrammatic) (t = tentacles; int = introvert with tentacles; r = radial plate of calcareous ring; rm = retractor muscle; oes = oesophagus; pv = Polian vesicle; sc = stone canal; g = gonad; lm = longitudinal muscle; rrt = right respiratory tree; c = cloaca; ap = anal papillae); F. tentacle arrangement of paratype." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/204575/files/figure.png" pageId="2" pageNumber="42">Figure 1</figureCitation>
E) short, madreporite as rounded structure located in posterior concavity of mid-dorsal interradial plate of calcareous ring. Polian vesicle single, comprising a long narrow neck ending in a bulbous sac. Respiratory trees as simple sacs, unbranched, right tree smaller than left, not as bulbous; tiny projections on right tree perhaps indicate aborted branches. Longitudinal muscles as single strands, almost thread-like; retractor muscles thread-like. Ovary as two sac-like organs, one on each side of dorsal mesentery. Both sacs distended with mature and developing oocytes (90425 µm, mean 236 µm), mature oocytes with thick enveloping capsule. An elongated structure, perhaps representing a developing juvenile, found lying in one ovarian sac.
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Ossicles of body wall exclusively tables with trilocular disc (
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A, 3A) and a spire of moderate height (
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B), of fused pillars, ending in 2-(3) smooth, diverging processes or teeth, spire sometimes reduced to a knob on surface of disc; posterior tables smaller (
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B, 3B). Ossicles of tube feet similar to those of body wall but with reduced spires; delicate, reduced end-plates in tube feet. Ossicles of tentacles (
<figureCitation id="01D729E8FFB8FF896FE4F810F2257802" box="[1191,1292,1878,1902]" captionStart="FIGURE 2" captionStartId="4.[151,250,1781,1804]" captionTargetBox="[167,1380,229,1736]" captionTargetId="figure@4.[151,1436,193,1760]" captionTargetPageId="4" captionText="FIGURE 2. Cucumella triperforata n. sp. A. knobbed rods from tentacles of holotype; B. small tables from posterior region of holotype; C. end-plate from tube foot of paratype; D. rods from anal papilla of holotype." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/204576/files/figure.png" pageId="2" pageNumber="42">Figure 2</figureCitation>
A) comprise slightly knobbed rods, with usually a large perforation at one or both ends. Anal papillae densely packed with simple or C-shaped rods, often perforated at ends (
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D).
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<emphasis id="AB98E97FFFB9FF886BD4F822F6227815" bold="true" box="[151,267,1892,1915]" pageId="3" pageNumber="43">FIGURE 1</emphasis>
.
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Holotype. A. tables from body wall; B. spires of tables; C. part of calcareous ring (ir = interradial plate; r = radial plate); D. holotype entire (an = anus; m = mouth); E. composite internal structure (diagrammatic) (t = tentacles; int = introvert with tentacles; r = radial plate of calcareous ring; rm = retractor muscle; oes = oesophagus; pv = Polian vesicle; sc = stone canal; g = gonad; lm = longitudinal muscle; rrt = right respiratory tree; c = cloaca; ap = anal papillae); F. tentacle arrangement of paratype.
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<emphasis id="AB98E97FFFBEFF8F6BD4F9B3F6227866" bold="true" box="[151,267,1781,1804]" pageId="4" pageNumber="44">FIGURE 2</emphasis>
.
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<emphasis id="AB98E97FFFBEFF8F6A5BF9B3F52A7867" box="[280,515,1781,1803]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="44">Cucumella triperforata</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="AB98E97FFFBEFF8F6949F9B0F56A7867" bold="true" box="[522,579,1782,1803]" pageId="4" pageNumber="44">n. sp.</emphasis>
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A. knobbed rods from tentacles of holotype; B. small tables from posterior region of holotype; C. end-plate from tube foot of paratype; D. rods from anal papilla of holotype.
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Description of dissected
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.
</emphasis>
Of the two
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dissected, largest one is U-shaped, measuring
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along ventrum and
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along dorsum; the other is slightly barrel-shaped, possibly due to contraction, measuring
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along ventral surface. In larger
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calcareous ring better calcified than that of
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and not covered by hardened mesentery but gonad immature, lacking gametes. Smaller
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mature with the ovary containing eggs with thick enveloping membrane. In same, Polian vesicles two, of more or less equal length, one with a long neck ending in a bulbous sac, the other saccular; madreporite bean-shaped, stone canal short; respiratory trees arising independently from cloaca, sac-like, with left one slightly larger, as in
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; retractor muscles threadlike, arising from longitudinal bands at anterior third of body. Ossicles of both
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as in
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(60 108 µm; mean 88.0 µm). End-plates of tube feet unbroken (
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C). Anal papillae with dense accumulation of rods (4299 µm, mean 61.4 µm), rendering them as rigid as anal teeth.
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<emphasis id="AB98E97FFFBFFF8E6BD4F832F62478E5" bold="true" box="[151,269,1908,1931]" pageId="5" pageNumber="45">FIGURE 3</emphasis>
.
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<emphasis id="AB98E97FFFBFFF8E6A58F832F52178E6" box="[283,520,1908,1930]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="45">Cucumella triperforata</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="AB98E97FFFBFFF8E694CF833F56078E6" bold="true" box="[527,585,1909,1930]" pageId="5" pageNumber="45">n. sp.</emphasis>
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A. tables from body wall; B. small table from posterior region; C. specimen entire (m = mouth).
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="AB98E97FFFBCFF8D6BD4F8F4F62478A4" bold="true" box="[151,269,1970,1993]" pageId="6" pageNumber="46">FIGURE 4</emphasis>
.
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<emphasis id="AB98E97FFFBCFF8D6A59F8F5F52078A5" box="[282,521,1971,1993]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="46">Cherbonniera utriculus</emphasis>
Sibuet. A.
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tables from body wall; B. denticulate/finely spinulated spire of table; C. specimen entire; D. peculiar table-like rods from peristome/collar.
</paragraph>
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Description of other
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.
</emphasis>
Specimens similar in texture and colour to
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. Tube feet few, ventral ones better developed, dorsal ones shorter, often reduced to suckers. Number of tube feet of left dorsal ambulacrum vary from 14 and that of the right dorsal ambulacrum 03, while that of the left ventral ambulacrum 47, right ventral ambulacrum 48 and mid-ventral ambulacrum 45. In at least one
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two anal papillae are much longer than rest and project well out from the body. No differences in ossicles were detected in male and female specimens.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="AB98E97FFFBDFF8C6B84FE29F6497EE4" bold="true" box="[199,352,367,392]" pageId="7" pageNumber="47">Distribution.</emphasis>
Known only from
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locality.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="AB98E97FFFBDFF8C6B84FED5F6037EC0" bold="true" box="[199,298,403,428]" pageId="7" pageNumber="47">Habitat.</emphasis>
Not recorded.
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<subSubSection id="D1F666E6FFBDFF8C6B84FEFEF51E79D0" pageId="7" pageNumber="47" type="discussion">
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<emphasis id="AB98E97FFFBDFF8C6B84FEFEF6127EBC" bold="true" box="[199,315,440,464]" pageId="7" pageNumber="47">Remarks.</emphasis>
In the presence of 12 tentacles, the new family approaches some members of the family
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, whereas the unequal tentacles suggest a relationship with the family
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. However, both these families are characterized by possessing only plates in the body wall. The new species, on the other hand, possesses only tables in the body wall. Although members of the family
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do possess tables, they are of a different form and nearly always accompanied by plates. Furthermore, this family is unique in having both the mouth and anus opening on the tip of a long proboscis-like structure. A closer relationship is here proposed with the
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on the bases of body form as well as the form of the calcareous ring of
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<emphasis id="AB98E97FFFBDFF8C6F12FDD6F3927DC4" box="[1105,1211,656,680]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="47">C. triplex</emphasis>
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. According to
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the calcareous ring of
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<emphasis id="AB98E97FFFBDFF8C69C5FDF3F5C67DA0" box="[646,751,692,716]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="47">C. triplex</emphasis>
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resembles that of
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<emphasis id="AB98E97FFFBDFF8C68F9FDF2F3787DA0" box="[954,1105,692,716]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="47">Mitsukuriella</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="AB98E97FFFBDFF8C6BD4FD9EF62D7D9C" box="[151,260,728,752]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="47">Vaneyella</emphasis>
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currently classified in the
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within the Dactylochirotida. However, if the new species was included within
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it would have necessitated a drastic amendment of its diagnosis. Such a step would be inadmissible as
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is well characterized by only plates in the body wall or by a plated skeleton.
</paragraph>
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The rigidity of the anal papillae is here perceived to be a transient feature in their future transformation into teeth. In one
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there appears an oocyte apparently sub-divided into two cells. This perhaps indicates intraovarian development, but this is by no means certain. However, the peculiarity of the “juvenile” like structure lying in one ovarian sac of the
<typeStatus id="46578BCFFFBDFF8C6AF3FC92F53B7C80" box="[432,530,980,1004]" pageId="7" pageNumber="47" type="holotype">holotype</typeStatus>
may support this speculation.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="9953356DFFBDFF8C6B84FCB1F5DB7964" blockId="7.[151,1437,151,1724]" pageId="7" pageNumber="47">
The body wall ossicles of
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<emphasis id="AB98E97FFFBDFF8C6AAAFCBEF5A77B7C" box="[489,654,1016,1040]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="47">C. triperforata</emphasis>
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comprising only tables with a trilobed, trilocular disc and a solid spire ending in 2-(3) diverging processes/teeth bear a striking resemblance to those of the molpadid,
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<emphasis id="AB98E97FFFBDFF8C6FF9FB5AF7EF7B34" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="47">Cherbonniera utriculus</emphasis>
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(
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C), so common in the very deep waters of the north and west Atlantic Ocean (see
<bibRefCitation id="FD7D489CFFBDFF8C6E21FB07F66C7B10" author="Pawson" pageId="7" pageNumber="47" refString="Pawson, D. L., Vance, D. L. &amp; Ahearn, C. (2001) Western Atlantic sea cucumbers of the Order Molpadiida (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea). Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington, 10, 311 - 327." type="journal article" year="2001">
Pawson
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2001
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). However, ordinal differences between the taxa readily separate them. The body wall ossicles of
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. utriculus
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are also exclusively tables with trilobed, trilocular disc (120165 µm, mean 156.8 µm) (
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A), a spire of moderate height (58140 µm, mean 104.25 µm), of three, mostly fused pillars ending in an undivided tip (80%) or in three diverging processes (20 %) (
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B). The tail ossicles are of similar form but slightly smaller (60120 µm, mean 92.75 µm); with undivided (30%) or 3-toothed (70%) spire tip; height of spire (50105 µm, mean 73.35 µm). However, we report here for the first time that the tips or diverging processes of the table spires in this species are finely denticulate/spinulated, very unlike those of the new species which are always smooth. These denticulations, confirmed in every specimen examined, including the
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material, are perhaps an adaptation for increased traction necessary for locomotion in a soft substrate. The higher concentration of the three-pronged spires in the tail tables perhaps supports this speculation. The similarity in the form of the ossicles of the two species is perhaps indicative of parallel evolution and convergence consequent upon a similar mode of life, since both species are U-shaped and perhaps live buried in the sediment.
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, in addition, has peculiar, table-like rods of varying shapes, each with a perforated base and a 13 toothed spire, in the peristome and/or collar surrounding the tentacles (
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D). Such deposits have also not been reported before for the species and may be precursors of tables. However, no such transformation of the ossicles was noticed in the body wall of all specimens examined and hence it is likely that these peculiar deposits are characteristic of the peristome/collar.
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