FIGURE 10. Rhabdopleura decipula n in Four new species and a ribosomal phylogeny of Rhabdopleura (Hemichordata: Graptolithina) from New Zealand, with a review and key to all described extant taxa

FIGURE 10. Rhabdopleura decipula n. sp., A, C, D, holotype 162592; B, E, paratype 3 NIWA 162591; F, paratype 4 NIWA 158517; G‒K, paratype 2 NIWA 161213. A, broken-tipped erect tube. B, distal end of young erect tube. C, D, subdistal and middle parts of same fully formed erect tube. E, F, parts of creeping tubes with some point-to-point suture zigzags highlighted. G, a prosicula (ps) and metasicula (ms); H‒K, reflected-light (H, I) and SEM (J, K) images of new colonies, with numbers indicating the inferred budding sequence (subsequent development seems to vary) of creeping tubes; the metasicula produces one or two metasiculae while one side of the prosicula is internally partitioned off to produce both a backwards-directed tube and an opposing creeping tube. Black stolons occur in H and a zooid in I. Scale bars: A, E‒H, 200 μm; B, 100 μm; C, D, K, 50 μm; I, J, 400 μm.