Haplogonaria baki Hooge & Tyler, 2015, sp. nov. ...

Haplogonaria baki sp. nov. (Figs. 4–5) Type material. Holotype. AMNH _IZC 249976, one set of 2-µm-thick serial sagittal sections of epoxy-embedded specimen stained with toluidine blue. Paratype. AMNH _IZC 249977, epoxy-embedded whole mount. Type locality. Bakeman Beach, Maine, USA (44°18’39”N, 68°48...

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Main Authors: Hooge, Matthew D., Tyler, Seth
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Published: Zenodo 2015
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Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6113938
https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6113938
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Summary:Haplogonaria baki sp. nov. (Figs. 4–5) Type material. Holotype. AMNH _IZC 249976, one set of 2-µm-thick serial sagittal sections of epoxy-embedded specimen stained with toluidine blue. Paratype. AMNH _IZC 249977, epoxy-embedded whole mount. Type locality. Bakeman Beach, Maine, USA (44°18’39”N, 68°48’11”W); medium to coarse-grained subtidal sediment. Other material examined. Living specimens in squeeze preparations from Bakeman Beach in July 2003, Wadsworth Cove, Maine (44°24’N, 68°49’W) in April 1999, and Deer Island Point, Deer Island, New Brunswick, Canada (44°55’31.2”N, 66°59’ 02.3W) in June 2004; 2-µm-thick serial frontal sections of epoxy-embedded specimen stained with toluidine blue; whole mount for fluorescence imaging of musculature. Etymology. Species name refers to the type locality. Description. Living specimens ~600 µm long and 130 µm wide (Fig. 4 A). Body somewhat flattened. Anterior and posterior ends rounded; posterior more narrow. Body without color by transmitted light. Epidermis completely ... : Published as part of Hooge, Matthew D. & Tyler, Seth, 2015, Two new acoels (Acoelomorpha) of the genus Haplogonaria from the northwest Atlantic, pp. 111-119 in Zootaxa 4013 (1) on pages 115-117, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4013.1.8, http://zenodo.org/record/243136 ...