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Three new records of Bathysciadium pacificum Dall, 1908 from off Oregon and Washington extend the range of the species from Peru by ~7,300 km to the temperate northeastern Pacific. The preserved and relaxed animal shows that the mantle exten-sions are not sensory papillae, but mantle folds forming the periostracum rays on the shell. Examination of radula, mantle, and mantle cavity by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), including environmental SEM (ESEM) of the fluid-preserved animal, adds a novel dimension to the understanding of the anatomy of these rare deep-sea snails. ESEM is a suitable tool for the morphological investigations of rare natural history specimens. The monotypic genera Bathypelta Moskalev, 1971 and Bonus Moskalev, 1973 are re-synonymized under Bathy-sciadium Dautzenberg and H. Fischer, 1900. No mineralization of the radula was detected by SEM-Energy Dispersive Spec-troscopy (EDS/EDAX) mapping. 

Abstract Evolutionary transitions between marine and freshwater ecosystems have occurred repeatedly throughout the phylogenetic history of fishes. The theory of ecological opportunity predicts that lineages that colonize species-poor regions will have greater potential for phenotypic diversification than lineages invading species-rich regions. Thus, transitions between marine and freshwaters may promote phenotypic diversification in trans-marine/freshwater fish clades. We used phylogenetic comparative methods to analyze body size data in nine major fish clades that have crossed the marine/freshwater boundary. We explored how habitat transitions, ecological opportunity, and community interactions influenced patterns of phenotypic diversity. Our analyses indicated that transitions between marine and freshwater habitats did not drive body size evolution, and there are few differences in body size between marine and freshwater lineages. We found that body size disparity in freshwater lineages is not correlated with the number of independent transitions to freshwaters. We found a positive correlation between body size disparity and overall species richness of a given area, and a negative correlation between body size disparity and diversity of closely related species. Our results indicate that the diversity of incumbent freshwater species does not restrict phenotypic diversification, but the diversity of closely related taxa can limit body size diversification. Ecological opportunity arising from colonization of novel habitats does not seem to have a major effect in the trajectory of body size evolution in trans-marine/freshwater clades. Moreover, competition with closely related taxa in freshwaters has a greater effect than competition with distantly related incumbent species.