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This paper deals with three new distributional records of gobies viz. Amblyeleotris downingi Randall, 1994, Psammogobius biocellatus (Valenciennes, 1837), and Valenciennea muralis (Valenciennes, 1837) from Bangladeshi waters in the northernmost part of the Bay of Bengal. The examined specimens are identified and described by morphomeristic characteristics in addition to DNA barcoding based on mitochondrial COI gene. The COI barcode sequence of Amblyeleotris downingi is submitted for the first time in the GenBank. In addition, an updated checklist of gobies of the country is also compiled in this paper.
Keywords
First record
Gobiid fish
Saint Martin’s Island
Sonadia Island.
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ISLAM, M. J., SIDDIQUEKI, T., NEOGI, A. K., HOSSAIN, M. Y., HAMMER, M., & AHSAN HABIB, K. (2021). Morphology and DNA barcode confirm three new records of gobies (Gobiiformes: Gobiidae) from Bangladesh. Iranian Journal of Ichthyology, 8(2), 114–124. https://doi.org/10.22034/iji.v8i2.584
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Allen, G.R. & Erdmann, M.V. 2012. Reef Fishes of the East Indies. Perth, Australia: University of Hawai'i Press, Volumes I-III. Tropical Reef Research.
Bernacsek, G.M. 2001. Guide to the Finfishes of Bangladesh Sundarbans. Technical Report, 255p.
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Myers, R.F. 1999. Micronesian Reef Fishes. A comprehensive guide to the coral reef fishes of Micronesia. Coral Graphics, Barrigada, Guam. 216 p.
Naznin, M.M.; Baki, M.A.; Hossain, M.M.; Datta, S.K. & Ahmed, M.S. 2020. Twelve new records of Coral associated fish from the Saint Martin’s island based on morphometric and molecular approaches. Bangladesh Journal of Zoology 48(2): 253-262.
Nelson, J.S.; Grande, T.C. & Wilson, M.V. 2016. Fishes of the World. Fifth Edition. John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, New Jersey. 707 p.
Nguyen, L.T.; Schmidt, H.A.; von Haeseler, A. & Minh, B.Q. 2015. IQ-TREE: A fast and effective stochastic algorithm for estimating maximum-likelihood phylogenies. Molecular Biology and Evolution 32(1): 268-274.
Ni, I.-H. & Kwok, K.Y. 1999. Marine fish fauna in Hong Kong waters. Zoological Studies 38(2): 130-152.
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Rahman, A.K.A. 2005. Freshwater Fishes of Bangladesh. Second edition. Zoological Society of Bangladesh, Dhaka. 394 p.
Rahman, A.K.A.; Kabir, S.M.H.; Ahmad, M.; Ahmed, A.T.A.; Ahmed, Z.U.; Begum, Z.N.T.; Hassan, M.A. & Khondoker, M. (Eds.) 2009. Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh. Vol. 24. Marine Fishes. Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, Dhaka. 485 p.
Rajan, P.T.; Sreeraj, C.R. & Immanuel, T. 2011. Fish Fauna of Coral Reef, Mangrove, Freshwater, Offshore and Seagrass Beds of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Zoological Survey of India, Andaman and Nicobar Regional Centre, Haddo, Port Blair.
Randall, J.E. 1995. Coastal fishes of Oman. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, Hawaii. 439 p.
Schliewen, U.; Wirtz, P. & Kovačić, M. 2018. Didogobius janetarum sp. nov., a new cryptobenthic goby species from the Cape Verde Islands (Teleostei: Gobiidae). Zootaxa 4438(2): 381–393.
Sharifuzzaman, S.M.; Fuad, M.T.I.; Rubby, I.A.; Chowdhury, M.S.N.; Hossain, M.S. & Chowdhury, S.R. 2021. Preliminary report on tidepool fish diversity from a rocky shore in the Bay of Bengal. Regional Studies in Marine Science 43:101698.
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Sudhir, K.; Glen, S. & Koichiro, T. 2016. MEGA7: molecular evolutionary genetics analysis version 7.0 for bigger datasets. Molecular Biology and Evolution 33(7): 1870-1874.
Talwar, P.K. & Jhingran, A.G., 1991. Inland fishes of India and adjacent countries. Volume 2. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam.
Talwar, P.K. & Kacker, R.K. 1984. Commercial Sea Fishes of India. The Director, Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta. 596 p.
Thacker, C.E. & Roje, D.M. 2011. Phylogeny of Gobiidae and identification of gobiid lineages. Systematics and Biodiversity 9(4): 329-347.
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Thresher, R. 1984. Reproduction in Reef Fishes. Neptune City, NJ: T.F.H. Publications.
Tomascik, T. 1997. Management Plan for Resources of Narikel Jinjira (St. Martin's Island). National Conservation Strategy Implementation Project 1, Ministry of Environment and Forest, Government of Bangladesh, Dhaka. 125 p.
Trifinopoulos, J., Nguyen, L.T., von Haeseler, A. & Minh, B.Q. 2016. W-IQ-TREE: a fast online phylogenetic tool for maximum likelihood analysis. Nucleic Acids Research 44(W1): W232-W235.
Ward, R.D.; Zemlak, T.S.; Innes, B.H.; Last, P.R. & Hebert, P.D. 2005. DNA barcoding Australia's fish species. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 360(1462): 1847-1857.
Werner, T.B., & Allen, G.R. 2000. A rapid marine biodiversity assessment of the Calamianes Islands, Palawan province, Philippines. RAP Bulletin of Biological Assessment 17. Washington, D.C.: Conservation International.
Winterbottom, R.; Alofs, K.M. & Marseu, A. 2011. Life span, growth and mortality in the western Pacific goby Trimma benjamini, and comparisons with T. nasa. Environmental Biology of Fishes 91(3): 295-301.
References
Ackerman, J.L. & Bellwood, D.R. 2000. Reef fish assemblages: a re-evaluation using enclosed rotenone stations. Marine Ecology Progress Series 206: 227-237.
Ahmed, M. 1991. A model to determine benefits obtainable from the management of riverine fisheries of Bangladesh. International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management Technical Report 28, Manila, Philippines. 133 p.
Ahmed, M.S.; Datta, S.; Saha, T. & Hossain, Z. 2020. Molecular characterization of marine and coastal fishes of Bangladesh through DNA barcodes. Ecology and Evolution 11: 3696-3709.
Allen, G.R. & Adrim, M. 2003. Coral reef fishes of Indonesia. Zoological Studies 42(1): 1-72.
Allen, G.R. & Erdmann, M.V. 2012. Reef Fishes of the East Indies. Perth, Australia: University of Hawai'i Press, Volumes I-III. Tropical Reef Research.
Bernacsek, G.M. 2001. Guide to the Finfishes of Bangladesh Sundarbans. Technical Report, 255p.
Eagderi, S.; Fricke, R.; Esmaeili, H.R. & Jalili, P. 2019. Annotated checklist of the fishes of the Persian Gulf: Diversity and conservation status. Iranian Journal of Ichthyology 6(Suppl. 1): 1-171.
Esmaeili, H.R.; Mehraban, H.; Abbasi, K.; Keivany, Y. & Brian, W.C. 2017. Review and updated checklist of freshwater fishes of Iran: Taxonomy, distribution and conservation status. Iranian Journal of Ichthyology 4(Suppl. 1): 1-114.
Fanning, L.P.; Chowdhury, S.R.; Uddin, M.S. & Al-Mamun, M.A. (Eds. Uddin, M.S. & Chowdhury, S.R.). 2019. Marine fisheries survey reports and stock assessment 2019. Department of Fisheries, Government of Bangladesh. 224 p.
Fricke, R.; Eschmeyer, W.N. & Van der Laan, R. (Eds.) 2021. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. Available from: http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp (accessed February 05, 2021).
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. 2020. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. Available from: http://www.fishbase.org, version 12/2019 (accessed April 28, 2021).
Gill, H. 1993. Description of a new genus of goby from southern Australia, including osteological comparisons with related genera. Records of the Western Australian Museum 16(2): 175-210.
Habib, K.A. & Islam, M.J. 2020. An updated checklist of Marine Fishes of Bangladesh. Bangladesh Journal of Fisheries 32(2): 357-367.
Habib, K.A.; Kim, C.G.; Oh, J.; Neogi, A.K. & Lee, Y.H. (2nd eds.) 2018. Aquatic Biodiversity of Sundarbans, Bangladesh (2nd edition). Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology (KIOST), Korea. 394 p.
Habib, K.A.; Neogi, A.K.; Nahar, N.; Oh, J.; Lee, Y.H. & Kim, C.G. 2020. An overview of fishes of the Sundarbans, Bangladesh and their present conservation status. Journal of Threatened Taxa 12(1): 15154-15172.
Hoese, D. 1998. Gobies. In: Eschmeyer, W. & Paxton, J. (eds). Encyclopedia of Fishes. Second edition. San Diego, CA: Academic Press. pp: 218.
Hoese, D.F. 1986. Gobiidae. In: Smith, M.M. & Heemstra, P.C. (eds.) Smiths' Sea fishes. Springer-Verlag, Berlin. pp: 774-807.
Hoese, D.F., & Larson, H.K. 1994. Revision of the Indo-Pacific gobiid fish genus Valenciennea, with descriptions of seven new species. Indo-Pacific Fish (23): 71.
Hussain, M.M. 1970. The Marine and Estuarine Fishes of the Northeast Part of the Bay of Bengal. Scientific Researches, East Regional Laboratories, Dhaka, 52 pp.
IUCN Bangladesh, 2015. Red List of Bangladesh Volume 1: Summary. IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature, Bangladesh Country Office, Dhaka, Bangladesh. 122 p.
Jonna, R. 2004. "Gobiidae" (On-line), Animal Diversity Web. (Accessed September 20, 2020).
Kalyaanamoorthy, S.; Minh, B.Q.; Wong, T., von Haeseler, A. & Jermiin, L.S. 2017. ModelFinder: fast model selection for accurate phylogenetic estimates. Nature Methods 14(6): 587-589.
Kami, H.T. 1975. Check-list of Guam fishes, supplement II. Micronesica 11(1):115-121.
Kimura, M.A. 1980. Simple method for estimating evolutionary rates of base substitutions through comparative studies of nucleotide sequences. Journal of Molecular Evolution 16: 111-120.
Larson, H.K., & Murdy, E.O. 2001. Gobiidae. In: Carpenter, K.E. & Niem, V.H. (eds) FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific. Volume 6. Bony fishes part 4 (Labridae to Latimeriidae), estuarine crocodiles, sea turtles, sea snakes and marine mammals. Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome. pp: 3381-4218.
Librado, P., & Rozas, J. 2009. DnaSP v5: A software for comprehensive analysis of DNA polymorphism data. Bioinformatics 25: 1451-1452.
Myers, R.F. 1991. Micronesian reef fishes. Second Ed. Coral Graphics, Barrigada, Guam. 298p.
Myers, R.F. 1999. Micronesian Reef Fishes. A comprehensive guide to the coral reef fishes of Micronesia. Coral Graphics, Barrigada, Guam. 216 p.
Naznin, M.M.; Baki, M.A.; Hossain, M.M.; Datta, S.K. & Ahmed, M.S. 2020. Twelve new records of Coral associated fish from the Saint Martin’s island based on morphometric and molecular approaches. Bangladesh Journal of Zoology 48(2): 253-262.
Nelson, J.S.; Grande, T.C. & Wilson, M.V. 2016. Fishes of the World. Fifth Edition. John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, New Jersey. 707 p.
Nguyen, L.T.; Schmidt, H.A.; von Haeseler, A. & Minh, B.Q. 2015. IQ-TREE: A fast and effective stochastic algorithm for estimating maximum-likelihood phylogenies. Molecular Biology and Evolution 32(1): 268-274.
Ni, I.-H. & Kwok, K.Y. 1999. Marine fish fauna in Hong Kong waters. Zoological Studies 38(2): 130-152.
Patzner, R.; Van Tassell, J.L.; Kovacic M. & Kapoor, B.G. 2012. The Biology of Gobies. Science Publishers, En eld, NH.
Rahman, A.K.A. 2005. Freshwater Fishes of Bangladesh. Second edition. Zoological Society of Bangladesh, Dhaka. 394 p.
Rahman, A.K.A.; Kabir, S.M.H.; Ahmad, M.; Ahmed, A.T.A.; Ahmed, Z.U.; Begum, Z.N.T.; Hassan, M.A. & Khondoker, M. (Eds.) 2009. Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh. Vol. 24. Marine Fishes. Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, Dhaka. 485 p.
Rajan, P.T.; Sreeraj, C.R. & Immanuel, T. 2011. Fish Fauna of Coral Reef, Mangrove, Freshwater, Offshore and Seagrass Beds of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Zoological Survey of India, Andaman and Nicobar Regional Centre, Haddo, Port Blair.
Randall, J.E. 1995. Coastal fishes of Oman. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, Hawaii. 439 p.
Schliewen, U.; Wirtz, P. & Kovačić, M. 2018. Didogobius janetarum sp. nov., a new cryptobenthic goby species from the Cape Verde Islands (Teleostei: Gobiidae). Zootaxa 4438(2): 381–393.
Sharifuzzaman, S.M.; Fuad, M.T.I.; Rubby, I.A.; Chowdhury, M.S.N.; Hossain, M.S. & Chowdhury, S.R. 2021. Preliminary report on tidepool fish diversity from a rocky shore in the Bay of Bengal. Regional Studies in Marine Science 43:101698.
Stiassny, M.L.J., & Raminosoa, N. 1994. The Fishes of the Inland Waters of Madagascar. 133-148. In: Teugels, G.G.; Guégan, J.F. & J.J. Albaret (eds.) Biological diversity of African fresh- and brackish water fishes. Geographical overviews presented at the PARADI Symposium, Senegal, 15-20 November 1993. Annales Muse´e Royal de l’ Afrique Centrale Zoology 275: 177.
Sudhir, K.; Glen, S. & Koichiro, T. 2016. MEGA7: molecular evolutionary genetics analysis version 7.0 for bigger datasets. Molecular Biology and Evolution 33(7): 1870-1874.
Talwar, P.K. & Jhingran, A.G., 1991. Inland fishes of India and adjacent countries. Volume 2. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam.
Talwar, P.K. & Kacker, R.K. 1984. Commercial Sea Fishes of India. The Director, Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta. 596 p.
Thacker, C.E. & Roje, D.M. 2011. Phylogeny of Gobiidae and identification of gobiid lineages. Systematics and Biodiversity 9(4): 329-347.
Thompson, P.M. & Islam, M.A. (Eds.) 2010. Environmental Profile of Saint Saint Martin's Island. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Dhaka, 151p.
Thresher, R. 1984. Reproduction in Reef Fishes. Neptune City, NJ: T.F.H. Publications.
Tomascik, T. 1997. Management Plan for Resources of Narikel Jinjira (St. Martin's Island). National Conservation Strategy Implementation Project 1, Ministry of Environment and Forest, Government of Bangladesh, Dhaka. 125 p.
Trifinopoulos, J., Nguyen, L.T., von Haeseler, A. & Minh, B.Q. 2016. W-IQ-TREE: a fast online phylogenetic tool for maximum likelihood analysis. Nucleic Acids Research 44(W1): W232-W235.
Ward, R.D.; Zemlak, T.S.; Innes, B.H.; Last, P.R. & Hebert, P.D. 2005. DNA barcoding Australia's fish species. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 360(1462): 1847-1857.
Werner, T.B., & Allen, G.R. 2000. A rapid marine biodiversity assessment of the Calamianes Islands, Palawan province, Philippines. RAP Bulletin of Biological Assessment 17. Washington, D.C.: Conservation International.
Winterbottom, R.; Alofs, K.M. & Marseu, A. 2011. Life span, growth and mortality in the western Pacific goby Trimma benjamini, and comparisons with T. nasa. Environmental Biology of Fishes 91(3): 295-301.
Ahmed, M. 1991. A model to determine benefits obtainable from the management of riverine fisheries of Bangladesh. International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management Technical Report 28, Manila, Philippines. 133 p.
Ahmed, M.S.; Datta, S.; Saha, T. & Hossain, Z. 2020. Molecular characterization of marine and coastal fishes of Bangladesh through DNA barcodes. Ecology and Evolution 11: 3696-3709.
Allen, G.R. & Adrim, M. 2003. Coral reef fishes of Indonesia. Zoological Studies 42(1): 1-72.
Allen, G.R. & Erdmann, M.V. 2012. Reef Fishes of the East Indies. Perth, Australia: University of Hawai'i Press, Volumes I-III. Tropical Reef Research.
Bernacsek, G.M. 2001. Guide to the Finfishes of Bangladesh Sundarbans. Technical Report, 255p.
Eagderi, S.; Fricke, R.; Esmaeili, H.R. & Jalili, P. 2019. Annotated checklist of the fishes of the Persian Gulf: Diversity and conservation status. Iranian Journal of Ichthyology 6(Suppl. 1): 1-171.
Esmaeili, H.R.; Mehraban, H.; Abbasi, K.; Keivany, Y. & Brian, W.C. 2017. Review and updated checklist of freshwater fishes of Iran: Taxonomy, distribution and conservation status. Iranian Journal of Ichthyology 4(Suppl. 1): 1-114.
Fanning, L.P.; Chowdhury, S.R.; Uddin, M.S. & Al-Mamun, M.A. (Eds. Uddin, M.S. & Chowdhury, S.R.). 2019. Marine fisheries survey reports and stock assessment 2019. Department of Fisheries, Government of Bangladesh. 224 p.
Fricke, R.; Eschmeyer, W.N. & Van der Laan, R. (Eds.) 2021. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. Available from: http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp (accessed February 05, 2021).
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. 2020. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. Available from: http://www.fishbase.org, version 12/2019 (accessed April 28, 2021).
Gill, H. 1993. Description of a new genus of goby from southern Australia, including osteological comparisons with related genera. Records of the Western Australian Museum 16(2): 175-210.
Habib, K.A. & Islam, M.J. 2020. An updated checklist of Marine Fishes of Bangladesh. Bangladesh Journal of Fisheries 32(2): 357-367.
Habib, K.A.; Kim, C.G.; Oh, J.; Neogi, A.K. & Lee, Y.H. (2nd eds.) 2018. Aquatic Biodiversity of Sundarbans, Bangladesh (2nd edition). Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology (KIOST), Korea. 394 p.
Habib, K.A.; Neogi, A.K.; Nahar, N.; Oh, J.; Lee, Y.H. & Kim, C.G. 2020. An overview of fishes of the Sundarbans, Bangladesh and their present conservation status. Journal of Threatened Taxa 12(1): 15154-15172.
Hoese, D. 1998. Gobies. In: Eschmeyer, W. & Paxton, J. (eds). Encyclopedia of Fishes. Second edition. San Diego, CA: Academic Press. pp: 218.
Hoese, D.F. 1986. Gobiidae. In: Smith, M.M. & Heemstra, P.C. (eds.) Smiths' Sea fishes. Springer-Verlag, Berlin. pp: 774-807.
Hoese, D.F., & Larson, H.K. 1994. Revision of the Indo-Pacific gobiid fish genus Valenciennea, with descriptions of seven new species. Indo-Pacific Fish (23): 71.
Hussain, M.M. 1970. The Marine and Estuarine Fishes of the Northeast Part of the Bay of Bengal. Scientific Researches, East Regional Laboratories, Dhaka, 52 pp.
IUCN Bangladesh, 2015. Red List of Bangladesh Volume 1: Summary. IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature, Bangladesh Country Office, Dhaka, Bangladesh. 122 p.
Jonna, R. 2004. "Gobiidae" (On-line), Animal Diversity Web. (Accessed September 20, 2020).
Kalyaanamoorthy, S.; Minh, B.Q.; Wong, T., von Haeseler, A. & Jermiin, L.S. 2017. ModelFinder: fast model selection for accurate phylogenetic estimates. Nature Methods 14(6): 587-589.
Kami, H.T. 1975. Check-list of Guam fishes, supplement II. Micronesica 11(1):115-121.
Kimura, M.A. 1980. Simple method for estimating evolutionary rates of base substitutions through comparative studies of nucleotide sequences. Journal of Molecular Evolution 16: 111-120.
Larson, H.K., & Murdy, E.O. 2001. Gobiidae. In: Carpenter, K.E. & Niem, V.H. (eds) FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific. Volume 6. Bony fishes part 4 (Labridae to Latimeriidae), estuarine crocodiles, sea turtles, sea snakes and marine mammals. Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome. pp: 3381-4218.
Librado, P., & Rozas, J. 2009. DnaSP v5: A software for comprehensive analysis of DNA polymorphism data. Bioinformatics 25: 1451-1452.
Myers, R.F. 1991. Micronesian reef fishes. Second Ed. Coral Graphics, Barrigada, Guam. 298p.
Myers, R.F. 1999. Micronesian Reef Fishes. A comprehensive guide to the coral reef fishes of Micronesia. Coral Graphics, Barrigada, Guam. 216 p.
Naznin, M.M.; Baki, M.A.; Hossain, M.M.; Datta, S.K. & Ahmed, M.S. 2020. Twelve new records of Coral associated fish from the Saint Martin’s island based on morphometric and molecular approaches. Bangladesh Journal of Zoology 48(2): 253-262.
Nelson, J.S.; Grande, T.C. & Wilson, M.V. 2016. Fishes of the World. Fifth Edition. John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, New Jersey. 707 p.
Nguyen, L.T.; Schmidt, H.A.; von Haeseler, A. & Minh, B.Q. 2015. IQ-TREE: A fast and effective stochastic algorithm for estimating maximum-likelihood phylogenies. Molecular Biology and Evolution 32(1): 268-274.
Ni, I.-H. & Kwok, K.Y. 1999. Marine fish fauna in Hong Kong waters. Zoological Studies 38(2): 130-152.
Patzner, R.; Van Tassell, J.L.; Kovacic M. & Kapoor, B.G. 2012. The Biology of Gobies. Science Publishers, En eld, NH.
Rahman, A.K.A. 2005. Freshwater Fishes of Bangladesh. Second edition. Zoological Society of Bangladesh, Dhaka. 394 p.
Rahman, A.K.A.; Kabir, S.M.H.; Ahmad, M.; Ahmed, A.T.A.; Ahmed, Z.U.; Begum, Z.N.T.; Hassan, M.A. & Khondoker, M. (Eds.) 2009. Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh. Vol. 24. Marine Fishes. Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, Dhaka. 485 p.
Rajan, P.T.; Sreeraj, C.R. & Immanuel, T. 2011. Fish Fauna of Coral Reef, Mangrove, Freshwater, Offshore and Seagrass Beds of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Zoological Survey of India, Andaman and Nicobar Regional Centre, Haddo, Port Blair.
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