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Additional Material KEY TO SPECIES OF TAIMANAWA
1 (2) renulation ol the primary tubercles strongly developed, contiguous with the mamelon, the platform therefore aborted ---> 3
2 (1) Crenulation of the primary tubercles restricted to the peripher) of the platform, widely separated from the mamelon ---> mortenseni
3 (4) 23-40 primary tubercles in each interambulacral field, 22-25 well developed pore pairs in the anterioi petals ---> greyi
4 (3) 12-16 primary tubercles in each interambulacral field, 18-19 well developed pore pairs in the anterior petals ---> pulchella [details]
Diagnosis Large, flattened forms with peripetalous, subanal, and internal fascioles. Frontal ambulacrum deeply depressed, crossing the ambitus in a deep, narrow frontal notch. Paired petals long,narrow, shallowly depressed, and with subparallel pore series. Anterior pair widely splayed, posterior pair less so. Primary tubercles crenulate, restricted to the posterior plate series of the paired interambs within the peripetalous fasciole. Labrum very short, extending only halfway along the first plate of the adjacent ambulacra. [details]
Etymology The name Taimanawa is derived from the Maori words tai (= sea) and nianawa (= heart); it is here treated as a Latin feminine first declension noun. [details]
Publication date 10. June 1969 [details]
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