Mode of life of Anomiostrea coralliophila Habe, 1975 (Ostreidae) : a sym biotic oyster living in ghost-shrimo burrows
Mode of life of Anomiostrea coralliophila Habe, 1975 (Ostreidae) : a sym biotic oyster living in ghost-shrimo burrows
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Anomiostrea Coralliophila Habe 的生活模式,1975 年(Ostreidae):一种生活在鬼虾洞穴中的共生牡蛎
DOI:
10.1093/mollus/eyt052
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发表时间:
2014
影响因子:
1.2
通讯作者:
Kato M
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作者:
Goto R;Ohsuga K;Kato M
Most of the ocean bottom is covered by sediment, which is inhabited by various burrowing animals, including crustaceans, annelids and molluscs (MacGinitie & MacGinitie, 1968; Morton & Morton, 1983; Dworschak, Felder & Tudge, 2012). The burrows of these animals are often inhabited by small symbiotic animals, contributing to the biodiversity of the marine sedimentary habitat (Morton, 1988; Itani, 2004; Anker et al., 2005; Kneer, Asmus & Vonk, 2008; Dworschak, Felder & Tudge, 2012). Symbiotic bivalves living in animal burrows are known from the three lineages Galeommatoidea, Myidae and Lucinidae (Lawly, 1978; Morton & Scott, 1989; Felder, 2001; Dworschak, Felder & Tudge, 2012; Goto et al., 2012) and are often a major component of the diversity of burrow-associated symbionts (Itani, 2004; Anker et al., 2005; Goto & Kato, 2012). In this study, we report that the bivalve Anomiostrea coralliophila Habe, 1975 (Ostreidae) lives symbiotically in the burrows of the ghost shrimp Neocallichirus jousseaumei (Nobili, 1904)(Callianassidae)(Fig. 1). To our knowledge, this is the first report of a tight symbiotic association between an ostreid bivalve and a burrow-dwelling crustacean. Although several individuals of the ostreid Booneostrea subucula (Jousseaume in Lamy, 1925) have been collected from an axiid shrimp burrow (Kneer et al., 2013), it remains unclear whether it is a burrow-specific symbiont, because the sample size was small. We surveyed the macrofauna associated with the burrows of N. jousseaumei (Fig. 1 B) on the subtropical coast of Edateku (288300N, 1298210E), Amami-Oshima Island, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, during spring low tides in May or June from 2005 to 2013. The habitat is the lower intertidal zone of a gravelly sandflat, with many embedded rocks (Fig. 1 A). The burrows of N. jousseaumei are often constructed under rocks, so we looked for shrimp burrows by turning over the rocks. Animals associated with the burrows were collected and identified. Owing to obstruction by rocks, we could not dig up the lower parts of the burrows, so our observations were limited to the upper and middle parts. We examined at least 10 burrows in each year, in total more than 90 burrows over the course of 9 years. Neocallichirus jousseaumei constructs relatively spacious burrows (diameter 2–4 cm) that are branched in several places (Fig. 1 C, D), at which points the tunnels are wider than the other parts (Fig. 1 D). The burrow wall is smooth and lined with fine brown mud (Fig. 1 C–E).During the 9-year survey, five symbiont species were found in the burrows of N. jousseaumei (Table 1): one ostreid bivalve (A. coralliophila)(Fig. 1 C, D), two galeommatid bivalves (Ephippodonta gigas Kubo, 1996 and Scintilla sp.)(Fig. 1 C, D), one tornid gastropod (Teinostoma sp.)(Fig. 1 E) and one polynoid scale worm (Fig. 1 F). Three symbiont species (A. coralliophila, E. gigas and a polynoid scale worm) were found in each year; Scintilla sp. was found every year except 2013, and Teinostoma sp. was found only in 2013. In our survey, these symbionts were never found outside the burrows in a free-living state or inside the burrows of other, sympatric invertebrates (eg Neaxius sp., Ochetostoma sp. and Sipunculus nudus Linnaeus, 1766). To assess quantitatively the burrow occupancy of each symbiont species, we recorded the numbers of symbionts observed in 13 N. jousseaumei burrows on 25–26 May 2013 (Table 1). Anomiostrea coralliophila was found in more than 75% of the burrows examined (Table 1) and multiple individuals were often clustered at the wider junctions of the tunnels (Fig. 1 C, D). Ephippodonta gigas was found in c. 30% of the burrows …