Clarkiella discoveryi Heding

Martins, Luciana & Tavares, Marcos, 2022, Additions to the morphology of the Phyllophoridae and the Sclerodactylidae. I. Type species of Phyllophorella, Selenkiella, Cladolella and Clarkiella, with the description a new species of Thorsonia (Holothuroidea: Dendrochirotida), Zootaxa 5120 (4), pp. 559-572 : 569-570

Clarkiella discoveryi Heding , in Heding & Panning, 1954

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Clarkiella discoveryi Heding , in Heding & Panning, 1954: 119 – 120, pl.49. Material examined. Holotype: 1 Mil W. off. Shag Rocks, South Georgia, 199 m, 19.xi. 1930, 60 mm length ( ZMUC – HOL 64 ) . Paratype: same data as holotype, 45 mm length ( ZMUC – HOL 247 ) . Holotype Slides MNHN – IE –2005–6324); ( MNHN – IE –2005–6325); ( MNHN – IE –2005–6326)

Redescription. Body U–shaped; tube feet scattered throughout body ( Fig. 11a ). Color, in ethanol, beige. 15 dendritic tentacles, two ventral smaller ( Fig. 11b, c ). Anal papillae present ( Fig. 11d ). Longitudinal, retractor and circular muscles thin ( Fig. 11e, f ). Longitudinal muscles split posteriorly ( Fig. 11f ). Retractor muscles short, attached to middle of radial plate ( Fig. 11h ). Stone canal single, short, ending in elongated madreporite ( Fig. 11g ). Radial and interradial plates of calcareous ring of same height, laterally connected to each other for most of their length ( Fig. 11h, i ). MidIR (IR5) taller than other, lacking posterior projection ( Fig. 10i ); midR (RI) not modified. Radial plates undivided, rectangular, convex base with posterior projection and 2 AP, one wider than the other ( Fig. 10h ). Interradial plates undivided, elongated, with two posterior projections and pointed anterior end ( Fig. 10 h, i ). radial and interradial plates lacking posterior processes.

Body wall with two–pillared tables with circular disc (80–100 μm long; Fig.12 a, b ); disc with four central holes and 8–10 marginal perforations, margin undulated; spire ending in about 12 spines. Tentacles with perforated plates (100–150 μm long; Fig.12c, d ). Introvert with closed rosettes (70–110 μm long; Fig. 12e, f ). Tube feet with endplate with small holes, larger ones around margin, smaller ones medially, endplates up to 150 μm in diameter and tables like body wall.

Remarks. Here we provide a photograph of the general aspect of the holotype ( Fig. 11a ) and describe by means optical microscopy for the first time the morphology of its longitudinal retractor and circular muscles ( Fig. 11e, f ).

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FIGURE 10. Cladolella virgo Heding & Panning, 1954, (ZMUC-HOL 256). (a) specimen in dorsal view; (b) muscular system; (c) photograph of the calcareous ring in lateral view; (d) drawing of the calcareous ring (extracted from Heding & Panning, 1954 and (e) rods from body wall. Abbreviations: PV, Polian vesicle; AP, anterior projection.

FIGURE 11. Clarkiella discoveryi Heding, in Heding & Panning, 1954, holotype (ZMUC-HOL 64). (a) specimen in lateral view; (b) top and (c) lateral view of tentacles; (d) anal papillae; (e–f) muscular system and gonads; (g) madreporite and stone canal; (h) photograph of the calcareous ring in outer view showing the insertion of the retractor muscle and (i) photograph of the calcareous ring in outer view showing the midIR (IR5), RIV and RV.Abbreviations: RM, retractor muscle, CM, circular muscle, LM, longitudinal muscle, GO, gonads, PV, Polian vesicle and M, madreporite, SC, stone canal. Plate identity follows the system established by Ludwig (1889–1892).

FIGURE 12. Clarkiella discoveryi Heding, in Heding & Panning, 1954, holotype (ZMUC-HOL 64). Ossicles from body wall (a–b) table in (a) top and (b) bottom view; (c–d) plates from tentacle; (e–f) rosettes from introvert.