and comb. nov. (Nemertea: Heteronemertea) are Sister Species with Prezygotic Isolating Barriers.

Zoolog Sci

Misaki Marine Biological Station, School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Misaki, Miura, Kanagawa 238-0225, Japan,

Published: April 2021

The heteronemertean (Takakura, 1898) was originally described as based on material from Misaki, Japan. Although this species was regarded as consisting of two color variants, purple and brown-yellow, the identity of these variants has never been examined based on topotypes. In this study, we performed a multi-locus phylogeny reconstruction, species delimitation analyses, and cross-fertilization experiments to examine the species status of Takakura's original taxon concept consisting of these color variants. Our results suggest that the purple type is identical to Takakura, 1898 auct. (currently ), whereas the brown-yellow type is conspecific with Iwata, 1954, originally established from Hokkaido. These two species appear to have a sister-taxon relationship and are reproductively isolated from each other by prezygotic mechanisms involving gamete incompatibility, minimally separated with 2.8% (16S rRNA) and 14.4% (COI) uncorrected -distances. We propose that the purple type be considered as representing the true identity of the nominal species (currently assigned to the genus ) to maintain the common usage of the name. Although Takakura's type material is not extant, we consider that neotypification is unnecessary in this case because no taxonomic/nomenclatural confusion persists. We also propose to transfer to yield comb. nov.

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