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<paragraph id="811536A2F075B45869EDFC80FE2FFC14" blockId="7.[181,1142,736,1676]" pageId="7" pageNumber="178">Etymology: Named in honour of José María Hernández, malacologist from Gran Canaria, who passed away recently. He had frequently been a companion of Sandro Gori on trips and dives.</paragraph>
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General shell shape: Animal small, up to
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), elongate oval, much longer than twice the width, moderately elevated (dorsal elevation 0.31), back evenly rounded with convex side slopes. Colour of tegmentum uniformly light orange, somewhat variegated, with sandy brown streaks or flecks. Girdle of the same colour, with lighter bands present.
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Head valve semicircular (
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), posterior margin widely V-shaped. Intermediate valves (
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) with anterior margin slightly convex and sinuate at both sides, side margins rounded, posterior margin more or less straight, apices not evident, lateral areas little raised, poorly defined. Tail valve semicircular (
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), length less than ⅔ of width, anterior margin straight and directed backwards laterally, mucro central, poorly evident, antemucronal slope slightly convex (
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), postmucronal slope slightly concave just behind the mucro.
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Head valve, lateral areas of intermediate valves, and postmucronal area of tail valve sculptured with many close-set, irregularly undulate concentric grooves, better defined towards periphery (
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); central area of intermediate valves and antemucronal area of tail valve smooth, some longitudinal grooves present but hardly visible.
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Articulamentum: Apophyses triangular, widely separated by a straight sinus (
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), insertion plates short, slit formula 15 / 3 / 11, slit rays neatly indicated by distinct rays of pores, teeth sharp and not equidistant, eaves narrow.
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Girdle: Densely covered with small, rectangular, slightly bent, imbricating scales dorsally (
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), rounded at the top, up to 55 μm long and 65 μm wide, with 1415 narrow riblets, interstices wider. Compared to congeners, the scales are smaller, more rectangular and distally straight along a narrow strip at the margin, among which arise some conical, weakly longitudinally striated, pointed spines, up to 100 μm long (
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). Marginal fringe composed of small, longitudinally striated, pointed spines,
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47 × 8 μm (
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). Ventrally, the girdle is paved with radiating rows of small, cylindrical, smooth spicules (
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Radula: Central tooth small and narrow, first lateral tooth elongate (
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: ST10,
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Mol-20034146); ST10
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,
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(
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,
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(
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Mol-20034150), disarticulated and coated for SEM analysis (
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in alcohol, of a darker colour, Indian red with lighter streaks, length
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Other material examined:
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ST03:
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, disarticulated for SEM analysis (
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), and 76 valves (15 head, maximum width
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Distribution:
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Islands.
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<paragraph id="811536A2F07BB45669EDFCFBFBF1FB98" blockId="9.[181,1143,207,1676]" pageId="9" pageNumber="180">
Comparison and remarks: This species was assigned to the genus
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mainly because of the elongate shape, with the length 2 to 3 times the width. On their own, not all characters of the new species match those of the genus
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. The lateral areas of
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species
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are generally rather elevated (Kaas &amp; Van Belle 1987: 124;
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Vendrasco
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. 2012: 34
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), but are little raised and poorly defined in our species. However, the same characteristic is seen in other
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species
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, e.g.
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<emphasis id="B3DEEAB0F07BB4566A1EFC5DFC2AFB98" box="[838,955,1005,1031]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="180">S. marcusi</emphasis>
(
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)
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.
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<paragraph id="811536A2F07BB4566988FBBCFCDDFB36" blockId="9.[181,1143,207,1676]" pageId="9" pageNumber="180">
About half of the approximately 22 living species of
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worldwide, occur in the temperate or tropical eastern Pacific, but a few species are found in the Caribbean, and two species are known from
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, namely
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(
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)
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and
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<emphasis id="B3DEEAB0F07BB45669EDFBDEFEBDFB19" box="[181,300,1134,1160]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="180">S. marcusi</emphasis>
(
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)
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. The finding of
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<emphasis id="B3DEEAB0F07BB4566BD2FBDDFCECFB19" box="[650,893,1133,1159]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="180">Stenoplax hernandezi</emphasis>
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on the Atlantic African coast greatly extends the distribution of this genus.
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differs from the present species mainly in respect of the different sculpture (radial riblets on the head valve, lateral areas of intermediate valves, and postmucronal area of tail valve, longitudinal riblets on the central area of intermediate valves, and antemucronal area of tail valve, vs. concentric undulate grooves and no riblets in the new species); the greater dimensions (maximum length from
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vs.
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); and the dorsal girdle formations (always elongate scales/spicules, not rectangular scales as in the new species).
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, originally placed in
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, and later attributed to
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<emphasis id="B3DEEAB0F07BB4566D50FA3FFBE4FA37" box="[1032,1141,1423,1449]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="180">Stenoplax</emphasis>
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by Kaas and Van Belle (1994) following study of the
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material, has a tegmental sculpture more similar to that of
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<emphasis id="B3DEEAB0F07BB4566B60FA60FD42FA74" box="[568,723,1488,1514]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="180">S. hernandezi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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, a similar colour, and it is of comparable size (maximum length 11.8 vs.
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). It differs because of the higher elevation (dorsal elevation 0.47 vs. 0.31), the number of intermediate valve slits (1 vs. 3), and the different girdle formations (see
<bibRefCitation id="E53B4B53F07BB4566BCFF981FC86F9D5" author="RIGHI, G." box="[663,791,1585,1611]" pageId="9" pageNumber="180" pagination="123 - 146" refId="ref16329" refString="RIGHI, G. 1971. Moluscos poliplacoforos do Brazil. Papeis Avulsos de Zoologia 24: 123 - 146." type="journal article" year="1971">Righi 1971</bibRefCitation>
; Kaas &amp; Van Belle 1994).
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Only a single species of
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<emphasis id="B3DEEAB0F07BB45668AFF9E1FDF6F9F5" box="[503,615,1617,1643]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="180">Stenoplax</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is known from the Indian Ocean, namely
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<emphasis id="B3DEEAB0F07BB4566D39F9E1FED6F915" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="180">S. madagassica</emphasis>
(Thiele, 1917)
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from
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. This species differs from the present species in having greater dimensions (up to
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long vs.
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), being more highly elevated (dorsal elevation 0.42 vs. 0.31), having different dorsal girdle scales (elongate and up to 145 μm long with interspersed whitish ringshaft-needles vs. rectangular up to 55 × 65 μm), and in respect of the geographical distribution (
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vs.
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).
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<taxonomicName id="46AA4D21F078B45569F2FEFDFE0CFEF9" authority="DellAngelo &amp; Schwabe &amp; Gori &amp; Sosso &amp; Bonfitto, 2014" authorityName="DellAngelo &amp; Schwabe &amp; Gori &amp; Sosso &amp; Bonfitto" authorityYear="2014" box="[170,413,333,359]" class="Polyplacophora" family="Ischnochitonidae" genus="Stenoplax" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chitonida" pageId="10" pageNumber="181" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="hernandezi" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="B3DEEAB0F078B45569F2FEFDFE0CFEF9" box="[170,413,333,359]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="181">Stenoplax hernandezi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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is generally similar to some of the small
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<emphasis id="B3DEEAB0F078B4556AE7FEFDFBC1FEF9" box="[959,1104,333,359]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="181">Ischnochiton</emphasis>
species
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reported from West African coasts (i.e.
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<emphasis id="B3DEEAB0F078B4556BCCFEDEFC82FE19" box="[660,787,366,391]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="181">I. goreensis</emphasis>
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,
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<emphasis id="B3DEEAB0F078B4556A78FEDEFC0BFE19" box="[800,922,365,391]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="181">I. paessleri</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, and
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<emphasis id="B3DEEAB0F078B4556A8CFEDEFBD1FE19" box="[980,1088,365,391]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="181">I. nicklesi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
), but they all have a tegmental sculpture that is mainly smooth or finely granulose.
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