Pub Date : 2024-04-02DOI: 10.1017/s0025315424000316
Sivakumar Ragul, Aravind Manoj, Gopalan Mahadevan, Arumugam Murugan, Helen Larson
The present research documents new distributional records of two gobioid fishes, Acentrogobius vanderloosi Allen, 2015 and Pseudogobius fulvicaudus Huang, Shao, and Chen, 2014 from the southeastern coast of India. Indian coastal waters provide suitable habitats for many gobioid fishes due to its varied ecosystems. The confusion over the identity of a number of gobioid fishes in India suggests the need for more studies on these fishes to better understand their diversity, taxonomy, and geographical distribution. The present record of these species from the southeastern coast of India expands the known distribution of these species.
{"title":"First record of two gobioid fishes (Perciformes: Gobiidae) from Indian waters","authors":"Sivakumar Ragul, Aravind Manoj, Gopalan Mahadevan, Arumugam Murugan, Helen Larson","doi":"10.1017/s0025315424000316","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315424000316","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The present research documents new distributional records of two gobioid fishes, <span>Acentrogobius vanderloosi</span> Allen, 2015 and <span>Pseudogobius fulvicaudus</span> Huang, Shao, and Chen, 2014 from the southeastern coast of India. Indian coastal waters provide suitable habitats for many gobioid fishes due to its varied ecosystems. The confusion over the identity of a number of gobioid fishes in India suggests the need for more studies on these fishes to better understand their diversity, taxonomy, and geographical distribution. The present record of these species from the southeastern coast of India expands the known distribution of these species.</p>","PeriodicalId":17477,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140599619","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-03-22DOI: 10.1017/s0025315424000249
Sandra Gordillo, M. Sol Bayer
Both present-day and fossil molluscan assemblages offer an opportunity for a better understanding of the structure and organization of both modern and past benthic communities. In this framework, drill holes are used widely to explore predator–prey interactions. This research focuses on predation marks, especially drill holes, recorded on modern molluscan assemblages in a Patagonian sector of the Argentinean continental shelf. Shelled molluscs (n = 2179) were recovered from 27 to 135 m depths covering a long latitudinal extent (between 39° and 54°S). For each station, taxonomic position, ecological composition and relative abundance of taxa were determined, and then drilling frequency (DF) was calculated to infer drilling intensity. The collected molluscs belong to 37 families, with Veneridae being the most abundant in terms of the number of specimens (n = 419). Specimens with drill holes (n = 226) belong to 21 families (with at least 33 different species). Most of them are suspension feeders (85.8%) and the remaining percentage comprised other trophic types. Naticids and muricids, as main potential predators, together account for 19.6% of the gastropods present in the molluscan assemblages. DF across all the stations was moderate (9.9%) but varied between low (0–2.4%) and high (28.9%). These results do not show a trend linked to latitude or depth, and the great variability of DF between stations suggests that other local ecological or environmental conditions would influence drilling predation at a small spatio-scale.
{"title":"Predatory drilling on molluscan assemblages along the Patagonian shelf (southern Argentina)","authors":"Sandra Gordillo, M. Sol Bayer","doi":"10.1017/s0025315424000249","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315424000249","url":null,"abstract":"Both present-day and fossil molluscan assemblages offer an opportunity for a better understanding of the structure and organization of both modern and past benthic communities. In this framework, drill holes are used widely to explore predator–prey interactions. This research focuses on predation marks, especially drill holes, recorded on modern molluscan assemblages in a Patagonian sector of the Argentinean continental shelf. Shelled molluscs (<jats:italic>n</jats:italic> = 2179) were recovered from 27 to 135 m depths covering a long latitudinal extent (between 39° and 54°S). For each station, taxonomic position, ecological composition and relative abundance of taxa were determined, and then drilling frequency (DF) was calculated to infer drilling intensity. The collected molluscs belong to 37 families, with Veneridae being the most abundant in terms of the number of specimens (<jats:italic>n</jats:italic> = 419). Specimens with drill holes (<jats:italic>n</jats:italic> = 226) belong to 21 families (with at least 33 different species). Most of them are suspension feeders (85.8%) and the remaining percentage comprised other trophic types. Naticids and muricids, as main potential predators, together account for 19.6% of the gastropods present in the molluscan assemblages. DF across all the stations was moderate (9.9%) but varied between low (0–2.4%) and high (28.9%). These results do not show a trend linked to latitude or depth, and the great variability of DF between stations suggests that other local ecological or environmental conditions would influence drilling predation at a small spatio-scale.","PeriodicalId":17477,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140205219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-03-22DOI: 10.1017/s0025315423000954
Meriam Ben Ghorbel, Marwa Mejri, Houeto Madel Floriane Adjibayo, Abdellah Chalh, Jean-Pierre Quignard, Monia Trabelsi, Nawzet Bouriga
Otolith morphological and microchemical analyses are relatively new scientific research methods used in fish stock evaluation and management. However, in Tunisia, only morphological methods have been used. The objective of this study was the Sarpa salpa stock discrimination of Djerba and Kerkennah by the otoliths morphological and microchemical analysis, while carrying out a fluctuating asymmetry analysis and a stock comparison of males and females for each population. The results revealed significant differences between the Djerba and Kerkennah populations, significant differences between the stocks of males and females in each population, and a highly significant fluctuating asymmetry for both populations. The results of the otolith morphological analysis were similar to those of the microchemical analysis. This result proves that both morphological and microchemical analyses are powerful tools for fish stock discrimination.
{"title":"Use of otolith microchemical and morphological analyses for stock discrimination of Sarpa salpa on two Tunisian islands, Djerba and Kerkennah","authors":"Meriam Ben Ghorbel, Marwa Mejri, Houeto Madel Floriane Adjibayo, Abdellah Chalh, Jean-Pierre Quignard, Monia Trabelsi, Nawzet Bouriga","doi":"10.1017/s0025315423000954","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315423000954","url":null,"abstract":"Otolith morphological and microchemical analyses are relatively new scientific research methods used in fish stock evaluation and management. However, in Tunisia, only morphological methods have been used. The objective of this study was the <jats:italic>Sarpa salpa</jats:italic> stock discrimination of Djerba and Kerkennah by the otoliths morphological and microchemical analysis, while carrying out a fluctuating asymmetry analysis and a stock comparison of males and females for each population. The results revealed significant differences between the Djerba and Kerkennah populations, significant differences between the stocks of males and females in each population, and a highly significant fluctuating asymmetry for both populations. The results of the otolith morphological analysis were similar to those of the microchemical analysis. This result proves that both morphological and microchemical analyses are powerful tools for fish stock discrimination.","PeriodicalId":17477,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140204782","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-03-18DOI: 10.1017/s0025315424000237
Andrey I. Azovsky, Margarita V. Chikina, Mikhail Yu. Kolobov, Andrey D. Naumov, Alexei A. Udalov
Intertidal macrobenthos at the small Chernaya Bight (the White Sea) was surveyed six times during 1993–2018 in order to study spatiotemporal variability. Distributions of sediments and macrophytes were highly variable in both space and time, as were most macrofaunal community attributes. Biomass slightly increased with time, while no long-term trends were found in total abundance, diversity, or functional structure. All community attributes were patchily distributed across the beach, and their patterns were not spatially autocorrelated and poorly associated with sediment properties, but changed considerably from year to year. Temporal changes in the community composition were considerable but less substantial compared with the spatial variations. The overall dynamics of species structure did not show any regular trend-like pattern but formed quasicyclic trajectories in ordination space, with nondirectional, spatially noncorrelated fluctuations around some relatively stable state. Comparison with two other neighbouring intertidal sites, studied annually in 1987–2017, showed that macrofauna at every site had similar average biomasses and common dominant species; however, the communities maintained their specificity in structure and exhibited distinct types of dynamics. In particular, the communities demonstrated different long-term trends in total biomass and diversity and followed their own paths in dynamics, appearing as differently oriented interannual trajectories. Nine most abundant species revealed no significant among-site correlations in abundance, and only two bivalve species showed good intersite agreement in dynamics of biomass. We suggest that local benthic communities are largely influenced by site-specific environmental conditions, resulting in independent and even opposite patterns of dynamics in neighbouring localities.
{"title":"Spatiotemporal dynamics of subarctic intertidal macrobenthos: going their own ways","authors":"Andrey I. Azovsky, Margarita V. Chikina, Mikhail Yu. Kolobov, Andrey D. Naumov, Alexei A. Udalov","doi":"10.1017/s0025315424000237","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315424000237","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Intertidal macrobenthos at the small Chernaya Bight (the White Sea) was surveyed six times during 1993–2018 in order to study spatiotemporal variability. Distributions of sediments and macrophytes were highly variable in both space and time, as were most macrofaunal community attributes. Biomass slightly increased with time, while no long-term trends were found in total abundance, diversity, or functional structure. All community attributes were patchily distributed across the beach, and their patterns were not spatially autocorrelated and poorly associated with sediment properties, but changed considerably from year to year. Temporal changes in the community composition were considerable but less substantial compared with the spatial variations. The overall dynamics of species structure did not show any regular trend-like pattern but formed quasicyclic trajectories in ordination space, with nondirectional, spatially noncorrelated fluctuations around some relatively stable state. Comparison with two other neighbouring intertidal sites, studied annually in 1987–2017, showed that macrofauna at every site had similar average biomasses and common dominant species; however, the communities maintained their specificity in structure and exhibited distinct types of dynamics. In particular, the communities demonstrated different long-term trends in total biomass and diversity and followed their own paths in dynamics, appearing as differently oriented interannual trajectories. Nine most abundant species revealed no significant among-site correlations in abundance, and only two bivalve species showed good intersite agreement in dynamics of biomass. We suggest that local benthic communities are largely influenced by site-specific environmental conditions, resulting in independent and even opposite patterns of dynamics in neighbouring localities.</p>","PeriodicalId":17477,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140150585","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-03-15DOI: 10.1017/s0025315424000213
Anders Galatius, Morten Tange Olsen, Marc Allentoft-Larsen, Jeppe Dalgaard Balle, Line Anker Kyhn, Signe Sveegaard, Jonas Teilmann
Grey seals from both the Atlantic and Baltic Sea subspecies are recovering from dramatic declines and recolonising former ranges, potentially leading to overlapping distributions and an emerging subspecies transition zone in Kattegat between Denmark and Sweden. The two subspecies have asynchronous moulting and pupping seasons. We present aerial survey data from 2011 to 2023 in Danish Kattegat during the Atlantic subspecies' moulting (March–April) and pupping (December–January) seasons, as well as the Baltic subspecies' moulting season (May–June). During the Atlantic subspecies' peak moulting season, 82% of the grey seals were recorded north of the island of Læsø (N57°18′, E11°00′). In contrast, during the Baltic moulting season in those years, only 9% of the grey seals were recorded here. This indicates a predominance of Atlantic grey seals in the north and Baltic grey seals in central and southern Kattegat. In 2022 and 2023, three pups were recorded around Læsø during early January, which coincides with the pupping season of northern Wadden Sea grey seals. Previously, pups have been recorded in the same locations during the Baltic pupping season, which demonstrates overlapping breeding ranges. Grey seals are known to have plasticity in the timing of pupping indicated by a west to east cline of progressively later pupping in the eastern North Atlantic. Historical sources document that the Baltic pupping season in Kattegat was earlier than it has been in recent years. Thus, the expanding ranges may be associated with convergence of Atlantic and Baltic subspecies' pupping seasons and potential hybridisation in this emerging transition zone.
{"title":"Evidence of distribution overlap between Atlantic and Baltic grey seals","authors":"Anders Galatius, Morten Tange Olsen, Marc Allentoft-Larsen, Jeppe Dalgaard Balle, Line Anker Kyhn, Signe Sveegaard, Jonas Teilmann","doi":"10.1017/s0025315424000213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315424000213","url":null,"abstract":"Grey seals from both the Atlantic and Baltic Sea subspecies are recovering from dramatic declines and recolonising former ranges, potentially leading to overlapping distributions and an emerging subspecies transition zone in Kattegat between Denmark and Sweden. The two subspecies have asynchronous moulting and pupping seasons. We present aerial survey data from 2011 to 2023 in Danish Kattegat during the Atlantic subspecies' moulting (March–April) and pupping (December–January) seasons, as well as the Baltic subspecies' moulting season (May–June). During the Atlantic subspecies' peak moulting season, 82% of the grey seals were recorded north of the island of Læsø (N57°18′, E11°00′). In contrast, during the Baltic moulting season in those years, only 9% of the grey seals were recorded here. This indicates a predominance of Atlantic grey seals in the north and Baltic grey seals in central and southern Kattegat. In 2022 and 2023, three pups were recorded around Læsø during early January, which coincides with the pupping season of northern Wadden Sea grey seals. Previously, pups have been recorded in the same locations during the Baltic pupping season, which demonstrates overlapping breeding ranges. Grey seals are known to have plasticity in the timing of pupping indicated by a west to east cline of progressively later pupping in the eastern North Atlantic. Historical sources document that the Baltic pupping season in Kattegat was earlier than it has been in recent years. Thus, the expanding ranges may be associated with convergence of Atlantic and Baltic subspecies' pupping seasons and potential hybridisation in this emerging transition zone.","PeriodicalId":17477,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140150825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-03-15DOI: 10.1017/s0025315424000201
Andrea D. Marshall, Janneman Conradie, Taryn Gilroy
Two separate sightings, two years apart, of the mimic octopus Thaumoctopus mimicus Norman & Hochberg, 2005 are reported from the Inhambane Province of southern Mozambique within the protected waters of the Vilanculos Coastal Wildlife Sanctuary. Individuals were encountered in May 2020 and 2022 in shallow waters, at a depth of less than 30 cm. Both individuals were fully exposed moving along a sandy substrate at the water's edge in a tidal flat. These represent the first documented sightings of T. mimicus in Mozambique, confirming the occurrence of the species along the eastern coast of Africa and extending this species' known range west from the Arabian Sea and south from the Red Sea.
{"title":"First sightings of mimic octopus Thaumoctopus mimicus (Cephalopoda: Octopodidia) from the Southwest Indian Ocean with photographic records from the Inhambane Province of southern Mozambique","authors":"Andrea D. Marshall, Janneman Conradie, Taryn Gilroy","doi":"10.1017/s0025315424000201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315424000201","url":null,"abstract":"Two separate sightings, two years apart, of the mimic octopus <jats:italic>Thaumoctopus mimicus</jats:italic> Norman & Hochberg, 2005 are reported from the Inhambane Province of southern Mozambique within the protected waters of the Vilanculos Coastal Wildlife Sanctuary. Individuals were encountered in May 2020 and 2022 in shallow waters, at a depth of less than 30 cm. Both individuals were fully exposed moving along a sandy substrate at the water's edge in a tidal flat. These represent the first documented sightings of <jats:italic>T. mimicus</jats:italic> in Mozambique, confirming the occurrence of the species along the eastern coast of Africa and extending this species' known range west from the Arabian Sea and south from the Red Sea.","PeriodicalId":17477,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140156534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-03-13DOI: 10.1017/s0025315424000225
Hannah S. Earp, Dan A. Smale, Harry J. N. Catherall, Pippa J. Moore
Kelp forests are being degraded and/or lost in many regions, and as such, interest in active kelp restoration approaches to reinstate forests is growing. ‘Green gravel’ is a promising new kelp restoration technique that involves seeding small rocks with kelp zoospores, rearing the gametophyte and juvenile sporophyte stages in aquaria before outplanting them at restoration sites. However, to be considered a viable approach to kelp forest restoration, the efficacy of this technique needs to be assessed across a range of environmental contexts and kelp species. Here, we aimed to understand the utility of green gravel as a kelp restoration technique for wave-exposed intertidal shores. Two substrate types – gravel and cobbles – were seeded with Saccharina latissima, reared in the aquarium and outplanted at two sites along the northeast coast of England. Outplanted rocks were monitored for retention, and the density and length of S. latissima. Juvenile sporophytes persisted on both rock types, although declines in density and variations in length were observed over time. Substrate retention was low, with gravel more likely to be removed from restoration sites compared to cobbles, and all outplanted rocks were lost after eight months. While our initial testing of the green gravel restoration technique on wave-exposed shores was not successful, our results provide important insights for developing/refining the technique and a baseline for comparison for future efforts. However, prior to commencing large-scale kelp restoration in wave-exposed areas using green gravel, further testing of the technique and comparisons with other restoration approaches are needed.
许多地区的海藻森林正在退化和/或消失,因此,人们对积极恢复海藻森林的方法越来越感兴趣。绿色砾石 "是一种很有前景的海带恢复新技术,它是指在小石头上播种海带孢子,在水族箱中饲养配子体和幼孢子体阶段,然后将其移植到恢复地点。然而,要将这种技术视为一种可行的海藻森林恢复方法,还需要在一系列环境背景和海藻物种中对其有效性进行评估。在这里,我们旨在了解绿砾石作为海藻修复技术在潮间带暴露海岸的实用性。两种基质类型--砾石和鹅卵石--被播种上在水族箱中饲养的 Saccharina latissima,并将其移栽到英格兰东北海岸的两个地点。监测了外植岩石的保留情况以及 S. latissima 的密度和长度。虽然随着时间的推移,幼孢子体的密度有所下降,长度也有变化,但在两种类型的岩石上都能存活。底质保持率较低,与鹅卵石相比,砾石更容易从修复地点移走,所有移出的石头在八个月后都消失了。虽然我们在海浪暴露海岸上对绿色砾石修复技术的初步测试并不成功,但我们的结果为开发/改进该技术提供了重要启示,并为未来的工作提供了比较基准。不过,在开始使用绿砾石在海浪暴露区大规模恢复海带之前,还需要对该技术进行进一步测试,并与其他恢复方法进行比较。
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Pub Date : 2024-03-13DOI: 10.1017/s0025315424000183
Gabriel Bittencourt Farias, Kaio Henrique Farias, Lucas Guedes Pereira Figueirêdo, Sigrid Neumann Leitão, Pedro Augusto Mendes De Castro Melo
Nine hundred and ninety-two (992) specimens of Pseudocyclops lerneri Fosshagen, 1968 (Copepoda: Pseudocyclopidae) were collected from the largest South Atlantic coral reef, Abrolhos bank (17°20′–18°10′S; 38°35′–39°20′W). Specimens were distinguished from other Pseudocyclops spp. by a close examination of the female and male fifth leg. This is the first record of the family Pseudocyclopidae in the South Atlantic. We further indicate that the low number of studies on this species, and as a consequence, the poorly understood ecology of Pseudocyclopidae may be caused by the use of inadequate sampling methods, indicating the use of demersal-focused samplers, such as emergence traps as an alternative to the sampling of these bottom-dwelling copepods.
{"title":"The first record of the calanoid family Pseudocyclopidae Giesbrecht, 1893 in the South Atlantic Ocean","authors":"Gabriel Bittencourt Farias, Kaio Henrique Farias, Lucas Guedes Pereira Figueirêdo, Sigrid Neumann Leitão, Pedro Augusto Mendes De Castro Melo","doi":"10.1017/s0025315424000183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315424000183","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Nine hundred and ninety-two (992) specimens of <span>Pseudocyclops lerneri</span> Fosshagen, 1968 (Copepoda: Pseudocyclopidae) were collected from the largest South Atlantic coral reef, Abrolhos bank (17°20′–18°10′S; 38°35′–39°20′W). Specimens were distinguished from other <span>Pseudocyclops</span> spp. by a close examination of the female and male fifth leg. This is the first record of the family Pseudocyclopidae in the South Atlantic. We further indicate that the low number of studies on this species, and as a consequence, the poorly understood ecology of Pseudocyclopidae may be caused by the use of inadequate sampling methods, indicating the use of demersal-focused samplers, such as emergence traps as an alternative to the sampling of these bottom-dwelling copepods.</p>","PeriodicalId":17477,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140114932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-03-11DOI: 10.1017/s002531542400016x
Jessika Alves, Elizabeth G. Neves, Rodrigo Johnsson
Amphilochidae comprises 92 species of small and colourful amphipods that live associated with sessile marine organisms. Hourstonius is one of the most diverse genera with 17 described species, most of the species are recorded from North Temperate Pacific and Tropical Atlantic and live in shallow waters. Only three species of Amphilochidae are recorded in Brazil, and from the genus Hourstonius, there is a single species, H. wakabarae. In the present work, we describe a new species of Hourstonius from Todos-os-Santos Bay, the second species of the genus to the country and the first record of this genus from Bahia State. A taxonomic key and an overview of the genus across the globe are also provided.
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Pub Date : 2024-03-05DOI: 10.1017/s0025315424000146
Olev Vinn
The frequency of growth increments in the tube wall of the Mesozoic and Cenozoic serpulids is in the range of modern species (i.e. 7–37 growth lines per 50 μm). The growth increments of serpulids do not show correlation with the water temperature and presumably cold water and warm water serpulid species are growing on average with similar speed in terms of number of growth lines per 50 μm. The large serpulid species have usually significantly larger growth increments than smaller species and presumably also grew faster than smaller species. The species with denser skeletons have lower growth rates than species with more porous skeletons. It is possible that serpulids do not have to calcify faster to produce thicker growth increments with lower density.
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