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A new species of wood-boring bivalve (Mollusca: Xylophagaidae) from the Eastern Arabian Sea

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A new species of wood-boring bivalve Xylophaga nandani sp. nov. is described based on material obtained from floating woods collected with a bongo net on the eastern Arabian Sea. The new species is morphologically closest to the members of the genus Xylophaga sensu stricto (cf. “Clade 4” of Romano et al. 2020), and can be distinguished from all of them by a combination of morphological characters, such as the laterally pointed, triangular mesoplax; siphon with a simple row of large, coarse papillae placed immediately next to the furrow on the lateral incurrent siphon; and an oval concentration of numerous white cone-shaped granules with pointed, slightly curved tips on lateral siphon distal to excurrent opening. Additionally, previous records of species of the family Xylophagaidae Purchon, 1941 from the Indian Ocean and neighboring areas were discussed here. In conclusion, some of these records are doubtful, and some of these species require a taxonomic revision.

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Acknowledgements

The authors are grateful to the Head, Department of Marine Biology, Microbiology & Biochemistry, Cochin University of Science & Technology, for providing the necessary facilities to conduct this study. Special thanks to Dr. Janet R. Voight for her comments that help to improve the species description. Paul Valentich-Scott also provided useful comments and editorial assistance in the first version of this manuscript. We also thank two anonymous reviewers for their comments and suggestions that helped us significantly to improve the manuscript. The authors are grateful to the Director, Centre for Marine Living Resources and Ecology (CMLRE), Ministry of Earth Sciences, India, for their necessary help and support for participation in the Sagar Sampada Cruise No. 380. The first author is also thankful to N. Saravanane, Scientist E and Dr. Usha V. Parameswaran, Project Scientist, CMLRE, for their help and support during the sample collection. Thanks also to Mr. N.K. Vishnudattan photographed the specimens illustrated in this paper. 

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    Paravanparambil Rajakumar Jayachandran & Mantodi Jima

  2. Programa de Pós-Graduaçao Em Biologia Comparada FFCLRP, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Ribeirão Preto, Brazil

    Marcel Velásquez

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Jayachandran, P.R., Velásquez, M. & Jima, M. A new species of wood-boring bivalve (Mollusca: Xylophagaidae) from the Eastern Arabian Sea. Mar. Biodivers. 52, 7 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-021-01245-1

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