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<emphasis id="E4D65C59FFD03E0CFF287AAE29BDFB4F" bold="true" box="[151,400,1189,1215]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="2">Ocnus placominutus</emphasis>
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<figureCitation id="4E999CCEFFD03E0CFF287AC328D7FB12" box="[151,250,1224,1250]" captionStart="FIGURE 1" captionStartId="2.[151,255,1922,1946]" captionTargetBox="[170,1424,185,1895]" captionTargetId="figure@2.[167,1426,178,1910]" captionTargetPageId="2" captionText="FIGURE 1. Ocnus placominutus n. sp. Holotype, SAM A 28092. A. Large knobbed body wall plates; B. minute body wall plates; C. flat baskets from the body wall; D. oblong rods from base of the tentacles; E. plates from base of tentacles; F. rods from tube feet; G. endplate; H. calcareous ring; I. specimen entire." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/198926/files/figure.png" pageId="1" pageNumber="2">Figure 1</figureCitation>
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<emphasis id="E4D65C59FFD03E0CFF287B192930FADC" bold="true" box="[151,285,1298,1324]" pageId="1" pageNumber="2">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
A small cucumariid, up to
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, with slightly U-shaped, angulated body. Mouth and anus surrounded by valves. Tentacles 10, ventral two reduced. Tube feet restricted to radii in single rows, ± 10 per ambulacrum; interambulacra naked. Skin rigid. Radial and interradial plates of calcareous ring anteriorly cleft. Polian vesicle single. Ossicles of body wall of three
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: external layer of minute, flat baskets with spiky margin and a spinulated base; a layer of large, multilayered, knobbed, imbricating plates with minute holes; and a layer of minute, complex plates, similar in structure to large plates. Tube feet deposits table-like rods, frequently knobbed; end-plates stellate. Tentacle deposits include rods of the pedicel
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and oblong perforated plates, both spinulated or feebly-knobbed.
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<emphasis id="E4D65C59FFD03E0CFF797836297EF9A7" bold="true" box="[198,339,1597,1623]" pageId="1" pageNumber="2">Etymology.</emphasis>
The species is so named because of its characteristic minute plates beneath the large, imbricating plates.
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(female),
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A28092, AHAB-9, stn. 88, dredge,
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,
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,
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,
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, 41 m, Forster &amp; Zettler;
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,
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A28093, same data as
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.
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Description of
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.
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Specimen small, slightly U-shaped, length along ventral surface
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, breadth in mid-body
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(
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Figure
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I). Form slightly angular in the radii; preserved colouration off-white, uniform. Mouth anterior, terminal, covered by valves; tentacles retracted; anus also terminal, surrounded by valves; anal teeth absent. Tentacles 10, well-branched, ventral two slightly reduced. Tube feet restricted to radii in single rows, scanty, ± 10 per ambulacrum, longer in the ventral radii, shorter dorsally, most extending rigidly from body wall, longest one ≈
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, suckers present, of same diameter as tube foot. Interambulacra naked, papillae/warts/tubercles absent. Skin rough, slightly rigid, packed with ossicles of which the large plates are clearly visible through stereoscope as imbricating scales.
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FIGURE 1.
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Holotype, SAM A28092. A. Large knobbed body wall plates; B. minute body wall plates; C. flat baskets from the body wall; D. oblong rods from base of the tentacles; E. plates from base of tentacles; F. rods from tube feet; G. endplate; H. calcareous ring; I. specimen entire.
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Calcareous ring simple (
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H), well calcified, easily fragmented. Radial plates slightly longer than interradial plates, anteriorly bifid, without posterior prolongations; interradial plates also anteriorly bifid, all plates with a posterior notch or concavity, that of the radial plate deeper. Polian vesicle single, short, saccular, slightly to left of ventral mesentery; stone canal thin, straight, remarkably short; madreporite well calcified, exact shape not discernable. Longitudinal muscles as thin single strands, retractors also thin, originating anteriorly. Respiratory trees confined to posterior quarter of body, both poorly branched, especially the left one, right one also much reduced. Gonad as a simple tuft of short tubules attached anteriorly, full of eggs in various stages of development.
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Ossicles of body wall characteristically of three
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: external layer of minute (1422 µm, mean 17.25 µm, ± 2.57, n = 20) flat baskets with a rather spiky margin and a spinulated base perforated by four or more holes (
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C); followed by a layer of large (224382 µm, mean 273.95 µm, ± 44.28, n = 10) multilayered, knobbed plates with minute holes (
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A); and a layer of minute (65141 µm, mean 96.45 µm, ± 20.3, n = 10) complex plates, similar in structure and form to the large plates, but extremely diminutive (
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B). Tube feet deposits mostly in the form of table-like rods (82135 µm, mean 114.83 µm, ± 15.01, n = 20) with a curved base, perforated at ends and in the middle which appears in a spire-like extension (
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F), most rods finely knobbed, rarely smooth but sometimes irregular, plate-like with several holes. End-plates (
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G) very characteristic, of stellate form, with large medial perforations and smaller ones in the arms, all arms with jagged margins. Tentacle deposits include rods (73130 µm, mean 95.25 µm, ± 16.12, n = 10) and plates (2441 µm, mean 36 µm, ± 5.23, n = 10), the former (
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E) of the pedicel
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and the latter (
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D) as oblong straight or slightly curved and/or branched perforated deposits, the medial perforations being the larger.
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Description of
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.
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Length
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. Ossicles of body wall similar to those of
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but those of the tube feet frequently without knobs as they are not fully developed.
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<emphasis id="E4D65C59FFD23E0EFF797DF9294AFBFC" bold="true" box="[198,359,1010,1036]" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">Distribution.</emphasis>
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locality only,
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.
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<paragraph id="D61D804BFFD23E0EFF797A1C29DBFBC2" blockId="3.[151,1437,152,1708]" box="[198,502,1047,1074]" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">
<emphasis id="E4D65C59FFD23E0EFF797A1C2903FBC1" bold="true" box="[198,302,1047,1073]" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">Habitat.</emphasis>
Sandy substrate.
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<subSubSection id="9EB8D3C0FFD23E0EFF797A3628DCF95C" pageId="3" pageNumber="4" type="discussion">
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<emphasis id="E4D65C59FFD23E0EFF797A36296DFBA7" bold="true" box="[198,320,1085,1111]" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">Remarks.</emphasis>
The specimens in hand satisfy the diagnosis of
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<emphasis id="E4D65C59FFD23E0EFCC07A362BE7FBA6" box="[895,970,1085,1110]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">Ocnus</emphasis>
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as amended by
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. In the structure of the calcareous ring and the presence of three
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of body wall ossicles it comes close to most species currently classified in
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<emphasis id="E4D65C59FFD23E0EFE407A832A67FB51" box="[511,586,1160,1185]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">Ocnus</emphasis>
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, notably
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<emphasis id="E4D65C59FFD23E0EFD047A832B63FB51" box="[699,846,1160,1185]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">
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. brunneus
</emphasis>
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,
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<emphasis id="E4D65C59FFD23E0EFBBE7A832C57FB51" box="[1025,1146,1160,1185]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">
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. lacteus
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,
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<emphasis id="E4D65C59FFD23E0EFA927A832DB1FB51" box="[1325,1436,1160,1185]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">
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. planci
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(Brandt, 1835)
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,
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. calcareus
</emphasis>
Dendy, 1897
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,
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. capensis
</emphasis>
(Théel, 1886)
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,
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<emphasis id="E4D65C59FFD23E0EFC757AA62C79FB36" box="[970,1108,1197,1222]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">
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. corbulus
</emphasis>
(Cherbonnier, 1953)
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and
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<emphasis id="E4D65C59FFD23E0EFAC07AA628F4FB1C" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">
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. rowei
</emphasis>
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, but not
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<emphasis id="E4D65C59FFD23E0EFE447AD82AADFB1C" box="[507,640,1235,1260]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">
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. vicarius
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(Bell, 1883)
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, which is characterised by cup-like baskets.
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far as satisfying the characters of the
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species depends on which species is really the
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species of the genus.
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chose
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<emphasis id="E4D65C59FFD23E0EFE337B162A31FAC6" box="[396,540,1309,1334]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">
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. brunneus
</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
as the
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species of his genus but according to
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<emphasis id="E4D65C59FFD23E0EFAAB7B162DACFAC6" box="[1300,1409,1309,1334]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">brunneus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is a synonym of
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<emphasis id="E4D65C59FFD23E0EFEF37B4829B6FAAC" box="[332,411,1347,1372]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">planci</emphasis>
(Brandt, 1835)
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, while
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, following
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, suggested that
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<emphasis id="E4D65C59FFD23E0EFF287B63292BFA71" box="[151,262,1384,1409]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">brunneus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is a synonym of
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<emphasis id="E4D65C59FFD23E0EFE697B632A06FA71" box="[470,555,1384,1409]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">lacteus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and hence
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<emphasis id="E4D65C59FFD23E0EFD0B7B632B24FA71" box="[692,777,1384,1409]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">lacteus</emphasis>
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should replace
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<emphasis id="E4D65C59FFD23E0EFC777B632C1AFA71" box="[968,1079,1384,1409]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">brunneus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
as the
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species of
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<emphasis id="E4D65C59FFD23E0EFAF77B632DB9FA71" box="[1352,1428,1384,1409]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">Ocnus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
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&amp;
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) as the last reviser, attempted to separate the above three species and his suggestion should be accepted that
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<emphasis id="E4D65C59FFD23E0EFE0F7BB82A30FA3C" box="[432,541,1459,1484]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">brunneus</emphasis>
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must be retained as the
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species of this genus.
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In the presence of a single row of tube feet, multilocular plates in the body wall together with other small plates/buttons, the new species agrees with both
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. brunneus
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and
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<emphasis id="E4D65C59FFD23E0EFC077BF62C1FF9E6" box="[952,1074,1533,1558]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">
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. lacteus
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. However, its large plates are always knobbed and never smooth and its other plates are minute and, unlike those of
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<emphasis id="E4D65C59FFD23E0EFB2D78282D27F9CC" box="[1170,1290,1571,1596]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">
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. lacteus
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, never fourholed but complex and multilocular, resembling in form the large plates. The tube feet ossicles are also different from those of the other species of
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<emphasis id="E4D65C59FFD23E0EFD1878662ADEF976" box="[679,755,1645,1670]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">Ocnus</emphasis>
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but the end-plates resemble those of both
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<emphasis id="E4D65C59FFD23E0EFB4678662D44F976" box="[1273,1385,1645,1670]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">brunneus</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="E4D65C59FFD23E0EFF28789828C7F95C" box="[151,234,1683,1708]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">lacteus</emphasis>
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.
</paragraph>
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</treatment>
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