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Light micrographs of male holotype of Mixtophyes toothlessi sp. n. showing the main trunk characters. A. Dorsal view of segments 1-2. B. Ventral view of segments 1-2. C. Dorsal view of segments 3-5. D. Ventral view of segments 3-5. E. Dorsal view of segments 6-8. F. Ventral view of segments 6-8. G. Dorsal view of segments 9-11. H. Ventral view of segments 9-11. Abbreviations: lts, lateral terminal spine; mdp, middorsal spinose process; mlp, midlateral spinose process; msp, minute spine; pdse, paradorsal seta; plse, paralateral seta; ss, sensory spot; ss3, type 3 sensory spot; vlse, ventrolateral seta. Numbers after abbreviations indicate the corresponding segment. Sensory spots marked as dashed circles. Scalebars: A-H: 20 μm.
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A new species of Mixtophyes Sánchez et al. 2014 is described from the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone (north-eastern Pacific Ocean). The new species is characterised by the presence of spinose processes on segments 1–11 in middorsal position and on segments 1–10 in midlateral position, paired paradorsal setae on segments 2, 4–6 and 8–9, and unpair...
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... regarding segment 11, the spiny nature of the middorsal flexible and elongated whip-like structures in most males of the family (except for M. toothlessi sp. n.) is relatively clear. Middorsal structure on segment 11 in the female paratype RH37.88/USNM1207916 of Neocentrophyes satyai Higgins, 1969 seems to be articulated at its base (see fig. 3N in Sánchez et al. 2014). Nevertheless, the revision of the other paratype RH37.27/USNM1207917 of the same species seems to indicate that this structure may not be articulated, being a spinose process rather than a spine. The remaining neocenthrophyid females and M. toothlessi sp. n. bears a pointed, rigid structure on segment 11 but ...
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