3D Anatomy of a new tropical Peruvian nudibranch gastropod species, Corambe mancorensis, and novel hypothesis on dorid gill ontogeny and evolutionстатья
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Аннотация:Nudibranch molluscs of the genus Corambe differ from most other Doridoidea by having ventral
rather than dorsal anus and gills. Because of these and other features, such as separate cerebral and pleural ganglia, corambids have been considered as an archaic or enigmatic group. The first tropical eastern Pacific Corambe species is described in morphological and some histological detail. Selected organs such as circulatory and central nervous features are reconstructed from serial semithin histo-logical slides and visualized in three dimensions using Amira software. Anatomical findings include two separate ganglia on the visceral loop and an additional ganglion on the right side of the body that is connected to the pedal ganglion. Corambe mancorensis n. sp. is dorsoventrally depressed, has an
oval, fleshy notum covered with a cuticle, and has a wide posterior medial notch that can be closed completely by unique lobules. Gills are arranged in an unusual horseshoe-like manner including both phanerobranch anal (=medial) gills and corambid lateroventral gill rows, and are connected to the atrium by a complex vessel system. The three medial gills arise from a posterodorsal gill cavity within the notal notch, similar to the case inCorambe evelinaeMarcus, 1958. By scanning electron microscopy a vestigial gill cavity is also detectable in C. pacifica MacFarland & O’Donoghue, 1929, but here it is
situated ventrally. Our new information on adult corambids is compared with new and published ontogenetic data on phanerobranch and cryptobranch dorids, to contribute to a novel interpretation of the ontogeny of dorid mantle and gill complexes. The progenetic evolution of corambids ‘recapitu-lates’ early juvenile dorid stages – turning Haeckel’s Law upside down.