FIGURE 8. Rhabdopleura francesca 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 8. Rhabdopleura francesca n. sp., A‒E, holotype NIWA 158157; F‒H, paratype NIWA 162577: A, complete erect tube 2.5 mm long. B, holotype, possibly comprising more than one colony, on broken scallop shell. C, close-up of B showing that the black tubarium tracery in A is accentuated by continuous series of what look like dormant buds lying along black stolons. D, section of tube bracketed in A. E, apertural end of another erect tube. F, black stolon emergent from a 'dormant body' in part of a creeping tube. G, H, variations in creeping-tube width and fusellar patterning, the latter typically weak and thinly developed throughout colony; some point-to-point suture zigzags highlighted. Scale bars: A, 1 mm; B, 2 cm; C, 3 mm; D‒F, 100 μm; g, h, 200 μm.