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<emphasis id="B96C4C77FFEA6D388465FAE3FDD35522" bold="true" box="[264,581,1348,1374]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="9">Pycnogonum cranaobyrsa</emphasis>
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(NHM.2004.47), CP214, East Coast of
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, N/
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'Fishery Researcher 1'
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2003,
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, coll. T­Y Chan.
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: relatively large
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, trunk length (anterior of cephalon to posterior of fourth lateral processes)
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, leg span approximately
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. Integument surface densely ornamented with small wart­like papillae, each papilla with minute tubercles or occasional setae over surface (
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B); pale straw­coloured in life grading to pale grey on tarsi. Trunk (
<figureCitation id="13238CE0FFEA6D3884CBF900FD9956BD" box="[422,527,1703,1729]" captionStart="FIGURE 4" captionStartId="9.[264,367,1787,1811]" captionTargetBox="[436,1167,682,1786]" captionTargetId="figure@9.[387,1200,649,1803]" captionTargetPageId="9" captionText="FIGURE 4. Pycnogonum cranaobyrsa sp. nov., female holotype, A, body, dorsal; B, profile of trunk papilla; C, body, lateral outline, integumental papillae not shown; D, third left leg. Scale line = 2 mm for A, C and D." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/158000/files/figure.png" pageId="8" pageNumber="9">Figure 4</figureCitation>
A, C) fully segmented, tapering from anterior to posterior, lateral processes short. Dorsal trunk­midline tubercles present: tall pointed tubercles mounted on raised posterior rim of first to third trunk segments; smaller, rounded tubercles on anterior of fourth trunk segment, and centrally on cephalon. Cephalon hexagonal, 40% of trunk length, domed ocular tubercle about 1.5 times as high as wide, bearing four eyes coloured red in life; second and third trunk segments each half as long as cephalon, second 0.77 times as wide as trunk length; fourth trunk segment slightly longer than third; dorsodistal tubercles present on all lateral processes, additional posterodistal lateral process tubercles present on first and second trunk segments. Abdomen truncate, naked, not articulating, held horizontal, wider distally, reaching back as far as distal edge of coxa 2 of fourth legs.
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Proboscis naked, strongly tapering, without tubercles or papillae, 1.3 times as long as cephalon; oral glands (
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) not seen. Oviger absent.
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.
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<emphasis id="B96C4C77FFEB6D3984F5F95BFD22576F" box="[408,692,1788,1811]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">Pycnogonum cranaobyrsa</emphasis>
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, female holotype, A, body, dorsal; B, profile of trunk papilla; C, body, lateral outline, integumental papillae not shown; D, third left leg. Scale line = 2 mm for A, C and D.
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Third leg (
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D) mainly without conspicuous swellings or tubercles. Coxae subequal, wider than long; femur longest article, 2.25 times as long as wide, with midventral swelling bearing short spine; tibia 1 0.85 times as long as femur, twice as long as wide, with one midventral spine; tibia 2 0.85 times as long as tibia 1, without spines but with ventrodistal tuft of fine setae; tarsus short, quadrangular, with fine ventral setae; propodus slender, curved, with ventral fine setae mainly in a single row, and occasional small lateral spines; main claw 0.4 times length of propodus; auxiliary claws absent. Ventral setae on tibia 2, tarsus and propodus not bifurcate.
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Female gonopore conspicuous on posterodorsal surface of coxa 2 of fourth legs (arrowed on
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A). Coxal glands (
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) not seen.
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: trunk length 4.51; width across second lateral processes 3.49; proboscis length 2.42; abdomen length 1.52; third leg, coxa 1 0.68, coxa 2 0.78, coxa 3 0.68, femur 2.03, tibia 1 1.75, tibia 2 1.46, tarsus 0.23, propodus 1.38, claw 0.26.
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<emphasis id="B96C4C77FFE86D3A8455FC83FE235341" box="[312,437,804,829]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Etymology</emphasis>
: from the Greek
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—rugged, rocky, and
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—hide or skin, referring to the complex pustulation of the integument of the present species (female, noun in apposition).
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<emphasis id="B96C4C77FFE86D3A8455FC3BFE0853C9" box="[312,414,924,949]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Remarks</emphasis>
: There is a number of
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species with a slender tapering proboscis, no auxiliary claws and pointed mid­dorsal trunk tubercles, but only the present species has the pustulate integument together with a rounded ocular tubercle. Using the key to the genus of
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,
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<emphasis id="B96C4C77FFE86D3A877AFBB3FD5E5451" box="[535,712,1044,1069]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">P. cranaobyrsa</emphasis>
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identifies to couplet 20, where both
<emphasis id="B96C4C77FFE86D3A811FFBB3FB415451" box="[1138,1239,1044,1069]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">P. t o r re s i</emphasis>
Clark, 1963 and
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are distinct from the present species in having a distally rounded abdomen and blunt (distally rounded) trunk tubercles.
<emphasis id="B96C4C77FFE86D3A8130FBC3FB425401" box="[1117,1236,1124,1149]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">P. i n d i c u m</emphasis>
is further distinguished owing to its compact leg articles, both femur and tibia 1 being less than twice as long as wide (
<bibRefCitation id="EF89ED94FFE86D3A877EFB13FD7A54B2" author="Sundara" box="[531,748,1204,1230]" pageId="10" pageNumber="12" refString="Sundara Raj, B. (1930) Pycnogonida of Krusadai Island (Supplement). Bulletin of the Madras Government Museum (N. S.), 1 (2) (7), 73 - 76." type="journal article" year="1930">Sundara Raj 1930</bibRefCitation>
).
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<emphasis id="B96C4C77FFE86D3A8792FB13FC2654B1" box="[767,944,1204,1229]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">P. cranaobyrsa</emphasis>
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bears more similarity to
<emphasis id="B96C4C77FFE86D3A81BBFB13FAB154B1" box="[1238,1319,1204,1229]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">P. o c c a</emphasis>
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, 1908, but the latter species has a distally pointed ocular tubercle and more slender leg articles (
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). Of other similar species described since Stock's (1966) review of the genus,
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<emphasis id="B96C4C77FFE86D3A84CBFA8BFD835539" box="[422,533,1324,1349]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">P. eltanin</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EF89ED94FFE86D3A8771FA8BFCB1553A" author="Fry" box="[540,807,1324,1350]" pageId="10" pageNumber="12" refString="Fry, W. G. &amp; Hedgpeth, J. W. (1969) Pycnogonida, 1. Colossendeidae, Pycnogonidae, Endeidae, Ammotheidae. Fauna of the Ross Sea, 7. Memoirs of the New Zealand Oceanographic Institute, 49, 1 - 139." type="journal article" year="1969">Fry &amp; Hedgpeth, 1969</bibRefCitation>
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is different from the present species in having distally rounded trunk tubercles;
<emphasis id="B96C4C77FFE86D3A87A6FAF3FC3A5511" box="[715,940,1364,1389]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">P. (N) moniliferum</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EF89ED94FFE86D3A86DAFAF3FBD15512" author="Stock" box="[951,1095,1364,1390]" pageId="10" pageNumber="12" refString="Stock, J. H. (1991) Pycnogonida of the MUSORSTOM campaigns to the Philippines. In: Crosnier, A. (Ed.), Resultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, Vol 8. Memoires du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris (A), 151, 213 - 228." type="journal article" year="1991">Stock, 1991</bibRefCitation>
does have distally pointed trunk tubercles (see Bamber in press), but differs from
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<emphasis id="B96C4C77FFE86D3A8682FADBFB3655E9" box="[1007,1184,1404,1429]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">P. cranaobyrsa</emphasis>
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in having a distally pointed ocular tubercle, a dorsal tubercle on coxa 3, and numerous spines and setae on the leg articles.
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