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Perhaps a small species,
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. Colour, in alcohol, white with scattered dark blotches. Podia minute, papilliform, scattered. Papillose collar evident. Anus encircled by five clusters of papillae. Tentacles?20, whitish. Cuvierian tubules absent. Spicules of body wall tables and buttons. Tables of two sizes: either with a large disc (
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and a tall spire (
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) with 23 cross-bars or a small disc (
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) and a short spire (
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usually at bases of podia. Buttons restricted to bases of podia and anal region, elongated or oval (
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, mean
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), with 34 pairs of holes and few knobs.
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The specific name refers to the
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of tables found in the body wall.
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.
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locality
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(
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),
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.
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<emphasis id="B953EABFFFABFFB1D0A18A51C638BFD4" bold="true" box="[151,299,1908,1932]" pageId="37" pageNumber="38">FIGURE 17.</emphasis>
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Holotype. SAMA27942. A. buttons from base of podium; B. knobbed podial buttons; C. large body wall tables from side; D. large body wall tables; E. large body wall table from beneath; F. small tables; G. small tables from side; H. podial plates; I. podial rods; J. ventral end-plate; K. tentacles rods; L. madreporite (different views). (AK scale a; L scale b)
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Specimen small, poorly preserved, eviscerated, most of gut and associated structures lost. Body form subcylindrical, dorsal surface arched, ventral flattened but not much so. Anterior end slightly broader than posterior end. Length
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. Colour, in alcohol, white with dark scattered blotches. Mouth anterior, sub-ventral; anus terminal. Podia minute, papilliform, slightly longer ventrally, scattered but with some indication of arrangement in bands. Papillose collar evident. Anus encircled by five clusters of 3 4 papillae per cluster. Tentacles?18, small, white to slightly beige in colour. Body wall
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thick, gelatinous, smooth.
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Calcareous ring damaged; radial plates squarish, as long as wide, with an anterior notch and some evidence of posterior bifurcations; interradial plates small, triangular, projecting slightly beyond anterior border of radial plates. Tentacle ampullae short; Polian vesicle single, sac-like; stone canal short, free, slightly twisted, terminating in an oval, globular, well-calcified madreporite (
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). Gonad and alimentary canal lost. Right respiratory tree shorter, reaching only half body length, both trees well branched, united at base. Cuvierian tubules absent.
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Spicules of body wall comprise tables and buttons. Tables of two sizes: either with a large disc (
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, mean
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) and a tall spire (
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, mean
<quantity id="4CDF9B48FFA8FFB2D2FD8FD5C40ABB52" box="[715,793,752,778]" metricMagnitude="-2" metricUnit="m" metricValue="5.3" pageId="38" pageNumber="39" unit="mm" value="53.0">53 µm</quantity>
) (
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), or a small disc (
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, mean
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) and a short spire (
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, mean
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) (
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), smaller
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common at bases of podia. Larger tables of
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, disc with mostly undulating or occasionally spinose rim, pierced by usually eight large, oval holes, and sometimes with one or more smaller holes outside the larger ones, spire with 23 crossbars, terminating in a ring of several teeth. Smaller table discs somewhat circular, also with about eight marginal holes but a short spire with usually a single cross-bar, margin of disc sometimes turned up giving a cup and saucer appearance to table in lateral view; occasionally tables reduced to button-like discs. Buttons (
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) rare, restricted to bases of podia and anal region, elongate or oval (
<quantity id="4CDF9B48FFA8FFB2D425892DC39CBC7A" box="[1043,1167,1032,1058]" metricMagnitude="-2" metricUnit="m" metricValue="6.1" metricValueMax="7.7" metricValueMin="4.5" pageId="38" pageNumber="39" unit="mm" value="61.0" valueMax="77.0" valueMin="45.0">4577 µm</quantity>
, mean
<quantity id="4CDF9B48FFA8FFB2D4D4892DC221BC7A" box="[1250,1330,1032,1058]" metricMagnitude="-2" metricUnit="m" metricValue="6.5" pageId="38" pageNumber="39" unit="mm" value="65.0">65 µm</quantity>
), usually with 35 pairs of holes and several knobs, the latter either restricted to the central shaft or to margins or both; buttons sometimes reduced to just two pairs of central holes. Podial deposits comprise small tables, buttons, perforated rods often developed as smooth plates, and end-plates. Podial tables (
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) similar to the smaller
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from body wall; podial buttons (
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mean
<quantity id="4CDF9B48FFA8FFB2D347898DC4D2BC9A" box="[881,961,1192,1218]" metricMagnitude="-2" metricUnit="m" metricValue="6.5" pageId="38" pageNumber="39" unit="mm" value="65.0">65 µm</quantity>
), usually heavily knobbed (
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), with 25 pairs of holes; rods (
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, mean
<quantity id="4CDF9B48FFA8FFB2D2DE89F5C429BCB2" box="[744,826,1232,1258]" metricMagnitude="-2" metricUnit="m" metricValue="9.1" pageId="38" pageNumber="39" unit="mm" value="91.0">91 µm</quantity>
), straight or slightly curved (
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), with 12 holes at ends and/or in the middle; plates with usually irregular margins and 510 pairs of holes (
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); end-plates of two sizes, small ones about
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, large ones (
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) about
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, both with large central holes and smaller peripheral ones but some peripheral holes often as large as central holes. Tentacle with slightly curved, non-perforated rods (
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, mean
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), usually with slightly spinose margins (
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). Cloacal and longitudinal muscles without spicules.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B953EABFFFA8FFB2D0A188CDC635BE59" box="[151,294,1512,1537]" italics="true" pageId="38" pageNumber="39">Distribution</emphasis>
Known only from
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locality.
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<emphasis id="B953EABFFFA8FFB2D0A18B45C7E3BE21" box="[151,240,1632,1657]" italics="true" pageId="38" pageNumber="39">Habitat</emphasis>
Slightly muddy sand, pennatulids.
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<emphasis id="B953EABFFFA8FFB2D0A18BFDC7EDBEA9" box="[151,254,1752,1777]" italics="true" pageId="38" pageNumber="39">Remarks</emphasis>
</paragraph>
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Of the 14 nominal and one indeterminate species currently classified in the subgenus
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, the present specimen comes close to
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from the
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and the Red Sea and
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<emphasis id="B953EABFFFA8FFB2D0A18A75C65EBF31" box="[151,333,1872,1897]" italics="true" pageId="38" pageNumber="39">H. (T.) asperita</emphasis>
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from
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. However, it is not identical to either of the two species. It differs from the former in the height of the table spires, fewer cross-bars to the spires, larger size of the holes on the discs and more nodular buttons, of especially the podia. It differs from
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in the absence of smooth buttons, the larger size of the holes of the discs of the larger tables and the nature of the table crowns. There is also some resemblance of the new species to
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from
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, especially in the
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of tables, their two sizes, and the rarity of buttons. However, Cherbonnier illustrates only smooth buttons with a median optical discontinuity from the anal region of his specimen as well as some minute plates and pseudobuttons. Some reduced tables of the new species resemble those of
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<emphasis id="B953EABFFFA9FFB3D0CA8C1DC6C6B909" box="[252,469,312,337]" italics="true" pageId="39" pageNumber="40">H. (T.) klunzingeri</emphasis>
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and
<taxonomicName id="4C274D2EFFA9FFB3D2F58C1DC338B90A" authority="Ludwig, 1875" authorityName="Ludwig" authorityYear="1875" box="[707,1067,312,338]" class="Holothuroidea" family="Holothuriidae" genus="Holothuria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Aspidochirotida" pageId="39" pageNumber="40" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="species" species="notabilis" subGenus="Theelothuria">
<emphasis id="B953EABFFFA9FFB3D2F58C1DC46DB909" box="[707,894,312,337]" italics="true" pageId="39" pageNumber="40">H. (T.) notabilis</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EFB64B5CFFA9FFB3D3B08C1DC338B90A" author="Ludwig, H." box="[902,1067,312,338]" pageId="39" pageNumber="40" pagination="77 - 220" refId="ref29920" refString="Ludwig, H. (1875) Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Holothurien. Arbeite aus dem zoologie zootom. Institut in Wurzburg, 2, 77 - 220." type="journal article" year="1875">Ludwig, 1875</bibRefCitation>
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but there are gross differences, most notably in the absence of tall-pillared tables in both
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<emphasis id="B953EABFFFA9FFB3D3708C45C332B921" box="[838,1057,352,377]" italics="true" pageId="39" pageNumber="40">H. (T.) klunzingeri</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="B953EABFFFA9FFB3D46A8C45C209B921" box="[1116,1306,352,377]" italics="true" pageId="39" pageNumber="40">H. (T.) notabilis</emphasis>
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, suspected by Panning (1935) to be conspecific. It is noteworthy that there are no tack-like tables in the body wall and podia of the new species and although the larger tables are of the synallactid-type, they resemble those of the genus
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<emphasis id="B953EABFFFA9FFB3D0D58CFDC679B9A9" box="[227,362,472,497]" italics="true" pageId="39" pageNumber="40">Mesothuria</emphasis>
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rather than those of
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.
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