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<taxonomicName LSID="AAEEBCC5-9842-5D91-81C5-B50317A2882E" authority="(Willett, 1937)" baseAuthorityName="Willett" baseAuthorityYear="1937" class="Bivalvia" family="Galeommatidae" genus="Cymatioa" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Cymatioa cooki" order="Galeommatida" pageId="0" pageNumber="53" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="cooki">Cymatioa cooki (Willett, 1937)</taxonomicName>
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 1" captionStartId="F1" captionText="Figure 1. Cymatioa cooki. A, B living animal from Naples Point, SBMNH 629938, length = 7.4 mm A lateral view with extended foot, note mantle papillae anteriorly and dorsally B ventral view with wide, long mantle gape C, D animals on native substratum E-H holotype, LACMIP 59.2., length = 9.7 mm E exterior of right valve F exterior of left valve G interior of left valve H interior of right valve." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1128.95139.figure1" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/766487" pageId="0" pageNumber="53">Figs 1A-H</figureCitation>
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 2" captionStartId="F2" captionText="Figure 2. A-C Cymatioa cooki, shell of left valve collected at Naples Point, SBMNH 641848, length 8.8 mm A exterior of valve B interior of valve C close up of hinge D-F Cymatioa electilis, left valve D, E holotype, CASIZG 043976, length = 16 mm D exterior of valve E interior of valve F paratype, SBMNH 34017, close up of hinge." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1128.95139.figure2" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/766488" pageId="0" pageNumber="53">, 2A-C</figureCitation>
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Willett" authorityYear="1937" class="Bivalvia" family="Galeommatidae" genus="Bornia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Bornia cooki" order="Galeommatida" pageId="0" pageNumber="53" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="cooki">Bornia cooki</taxonomicName>
Willett, 1937: 389, pl. 5, figs 3-6.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="53">Description.</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="53">Shell</emphasis>
: thin, fragile, subovate; inequilateral, posterior end much longer; anterior and posterior ends broadly rounded; dorsal margin gently sloping on each side of umbos; ventral margin broadly gaping in living animal; beaks small, sharply pointed; prodissoconch 200
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in diameter; sculpture of irregular, slightly wavy commarginal striae, and fine, dense punctae; ventral margin with sparse, broad, low radial undulations; periostracum thin, light beige, silky; hinge plate narrow; right valve with one short anterior cardinal tooth, one elongate posterior lateral tooth; left valve with two minute anterior cardinal teeth, one elongate posterior lateral tooth; ligament internal, opisthodetic, elongate; resilifer narrow, elongate; ventral margin slightly wavy internally; adductor muscle scars subovate, subequal; pallial line entire; strong accessory muscle scars dorsal to pallial line. Length to 11.4 mm (
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).
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="53">Mantle</emphasis>
: large, reflected, covering most of outer shell surface when fully extended, including umbones (Fig.
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); mantle can be mostly retracted into the shell; reflected portion of mantle sparsely papillate (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 1" captionStartId="F1" captionText="Figure 1. Cymatioa cooki. A, B living animal from Naples Point, SBMNH 629938, length = 7.4 mm A lateral view with extended foot, note mantle papillae anteriorly and dorsally B ventral view with wide, long mantle gape C, D animals on native substratum E-H holotype, LACMIP 59.2., length = 9.7 mm E exterior of right valve F exterior of left valve G interior of left valve H interior of right valve." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1128.95139.figure1" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/766487" pageId="0" pageNumber="53">1A</figureCitation>
); slightly fused posteroventrally; two anterior and two posterior tentacles, short, slightly extending past shell margins (Fig.
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).
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="53">Foot</emphasis>
: large, translucent, exceeding the length of the shell when fully extended, spathate, with distinct pointed heel; bright white stripe extending from the tip of foot to the shell margin, presumably related to byssal formation (Fig.
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). This species is an active crawler (Fig.
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).
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Baldwin Hills Pleistocene deposit, Los Angeles County, California;
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,
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; LACMIP locality 59.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="53">Locality of living specimens.</paragraph>
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USA, California, Santa Barbara County, off Naples Point;
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,
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; intertidal zone, in boulders and cobbles. SBMNH 629938, conjoined shell and anatomy, length 7.4 mm, height 4.5 mm (Fig.
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); SBMNH 641848, (Fig.
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), one left valve length 8.8 mm, height 5.5 mm.
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="53">Figure 2.</emphasis>
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="53">A-C</emphasis>
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="53">Cymatioa cooki</emphasis>
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, shell of left valve collected at Naples Point, SBMNH 641848, length 8.8 mm
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exterior of valve
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="53">B</emphasis>
interior of valve
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close up of hinge
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="53">D-F</emphasis>
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, left valve
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holotype, CASIZG 043976, length = 16 mm
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exterior of valve
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interior of valve
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paratype, SBMNH 34017, close up of hinge.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="53">Habitat and potential commensal relationships.</paragraph>
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All three living specimens were found near the seaward edge of a boulder field centered at
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,
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and located on a broad, gently sloping, wave-cut bench of Monterey Shale. This boulder field extends vertically from a tidal height of approximately +0.3 m above mean lower low water to -0.4 m. The surfgrass
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="53">Phyllospadix torreyi</emphasis>
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S. Watson, 1879, dominates much of the surrounding bench. At low tide, a shallow lagoon lies just landward of the boulder field, and behind that are more shale bench, a narrow sand beach, and then cliffs up to 20 m high consisting of Monterey shale overlain by terrestrial deposits. Sand levels on the beach and in the lagoon fluctuate seasonally, with nearly all of the beach scoured away in winter, but the boulder field as a whole is never significantly inundated, especially at its seaward edge where the
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="53">Cymatioa</emphasis>
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was found. Vertical relief in the boulder field is fairly low, with most boulders under 0.5 m diameter. A few rock outcrops just to the west are only about 1 m high.
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The specimens found on 23 November 2018 were on sand underneath a boulder (Fig.
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). One of these was found at the entrance to a burrow of unknown origin, with its foot extended and tentaculate inhalant siphon extending into the burrow opening. The burrow may have been constructed by the Tidepool Ghost Shrimp,
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="53">Neotrypaea biffari</emphasis>
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(Holthuis, 1991), which occur frequently under boulders at this site, usually with commensal Blind Gobies
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="53">Typhlogobius californiensis</emphasis>
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Steindachner, 1879. This sighting is vouchered in eight images at https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/18597683, with the last image showing one of the specimens as first observed, next to the burrow entrance described above.
</paragraph>
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The specimen found on 4 March 2019 was on the underside of a boulder, among scattered tubes of the annelid
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="53">Spirorbis</emphasis>
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sp. and small, scattered patches of an unidentified tan-colored encrusting sponge. Two small dorid nudibranchs,
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="53">Conualevia alba</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
Collier &amp; Farmer, 1964; a single mussel,
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="53">Mytilisepta bifurcata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(Conrad, 1837); and an adult chiton,
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Dall" baseAuthorityYear="1879" class="Polyplacophora" family="Ischnochitonidae" genus="Stenoplax" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Stenoplax conspicua" order="Chitonida" pageId="0" pageNumber="53" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="conspicua">
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</taxonomicName>
(Dall, 1879), were also present, all within a few centimeters of the
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="53">C. cooki</emphasis>
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. Burrow openings of unknown origin and 3-5 mm in diameter were also present on the undersurface of the boulder. This sighting is vouchered in six images at https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/20962245.
</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="53">Comparisons.</paragraph>
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The shell morphology of
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is closest to
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, with both species sharing a commarginal and punctate sculpture and an undulate ventral margin (Fig.
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).
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="53">Cymatioa cooki</emphasis>
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is subquadrate and inequilateral, with a much longer posterior end (Fig.
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), whereas
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is subovate with a slightly longer posterior end (Fig.
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). The cardinal teeth in both species are quite small and similar; however, the posterior lateral tooth in
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is longer and more robust (Fig.
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) than that of
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(Fig.
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). Because the living animal is undocumented for
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, we are unable to provide anatomical comparisons. However, based on other galeommatid taxa, many differences in mantle tentacles and papillae are likely.
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