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FIG. 6. — A, Xylophaga alexisi n in At the bottom of the deep blue sea: a new wood-boring bivalve (Mollusca, Pholadidae, Xylophaga) from the Cape Verde Abyssal Plain (subtropical Atlantic)

  • 1. Field Museum of Natural History, Dept. of Zoology 1400 S. Lake Shore Dr., Chicago, IL 60605 (USA) jvoight@fieldmuseum.org
  • 2. Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle Département Milieux et Peuplements Aquatiques case postale 26, 57 rue Cuvier, F-75231 Paris cedex 05 (France) segonzac@mnhn.fr

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FIG. 6. — A, Xylophaga alexisi n. sp., lateral view to define "incomplete siphon" in which the excurrent siphon is considerably shorter than the incurrent siphon; B, Xylophaga pacifica Voight, 2009, lateral view to define "complete siphon", in which both siphonal openings are roughly equal in length. Scale bars: 1 mm.

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Published as part of Voight, Janet R. & Segonzac, Michel, 2012, At the bottom of the deep blue sea: a new wood-boring bivalve (Mollusca, Pholadidae, Xylophaga) from the Cape Verde Abyssal Plain (subtropical Atlantic), pp. 171-180 in Zoosystema 34 (1) on page 179, DOI: 10.5252/z2012n1a82, http://zenodo.org/record/10081164

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