Ciliary Currents of Non-Feeding Veligers in Putative Basal Clades of Gastropods
Ciliary Currents of Non-Feeding Veligers in Putative Basal Clades of Gastropods
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腹足类假定基底进化枝中非摄食维利格的纤毛电流
DOI:
10.2307/3226863
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发表时间:
1997
影响因子:
1.2
通讯作者:
R. R. Strathmann
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文献类型:
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作者:
M. Hadfield;M. F. Strathmann;R. R. Strathmann
The most basal clades of gastropods may lack feeding larval stages in all surviving species, although many species have planktonic veliger larvae with a preoral (prototrochal) band of cilia for locomotion. We examined subvelar cilia and currents for comparison with feeding larvae of other gastropods. The larvae represented three major groups of archaeogastropod grade: the lottiid limpets Lottia pelta and Tectura scutum, the fissurellid limpet Diodora aspera, and the trochid Calliostoma ligatum. Subvelar cilia immediately adjacent to the prototroch were longer than those farther posterior. Subvelar currents were from posterior to anterior along dorsal areas of the velum and from anterior to posterior along ventral areas of the velum. These observed particle paths and inferred directions of beat of subvelar cilia suggest a cleansing function, with currents exiting the mantle cavity in an anterior direction dorsally and laterally and moving posteriorly to join ciliary currents along the foot ventrally. Only in C. ligatum were particles sometimes transported in the dorsal to ventral direction just below the prototrochal band and then only when the prototrochal cilia were arrested. Particles were not captured between bands of cilia with opposed ciliary beat, transported toward the mouth in a ciliated food groove, or ingested by the archaeogastropod veligers, whereas these events were observed easily in other gastropod veligers. Fluorescence of algae was absent in guts of the archaeogastropod veligers exposed to phytoplankton but present in guts of other gastropod veligers. These observations support the hypothesis that veligers of the Patellogastropoda and Vetigastropoda do not feed and that the subvelar cilia serve other functions. If capacity to feed has been lost, subvelar ciliation has been modified for other functions, perhaps cleansing. If the ciliation represents the ancestral condition, then ciliation for cleansing may have been modified for feeding. Additional key words: archaeogastropod, lecithotrophy, Fissurellidae, Lottiidae, Trochidae Veligers are the characteristic larval form of gastropods. Feeding veligers are known from diverse clades. They capture particulate food between opposed prototrochal and metatrochal bands of cilia on the edge of the velum; the captured particles are transported around the velar margin to the mouth in a ciliated groove between the two opposed bands (Werner 1955; Strathmann & Leise 1979; Hansen 1991) In contrast, some gastropods have veligers that swim but are not known to capture food (Fretter 1967; Strathmann 1978a; Hadfield & Strathmann 1990; Hickman 1992)-the condition in some of the inferred basal clades within the gastropods. These were once classified under the single order Archaeogastropoda and are now thought to belong to several monophyletic a Author for correspondence. E-mail: hadfield @uhcc.hawaii.edu groups. Two inferred early branches are the Patellogastropoda and the Vetigastropoda (the latter including the Pleurotomarioidea, Fissurelloidea, and Trochoidea) (Haszprunar 1988; Bieler 1992; Ponder & Lindberg 1996, 1997). The apparent absence of larval suspension feeding in these groups has been taken as support for the hypothesis that feeding veligers evolved at least twice in the gastropods (Ponder 1991; Haszprunar et al. 1995) and also has been offered as a possible example of loss of larval feeding (Strathmann 1978a,b; Nielsen 1987; Page 1994). Present evidence is insufficient for a strong test of these alternative hypotheses on the evolution of feeding veligers (Strathmann 1978a, 1993), but stronger evidence can and should be obtained for the premise that these larvae do not capture and ingest particulate food. The evidence that these larvae do not feed is that they do not require particulate food during rearing and This content downloaded from 157.55.39.127 on Wed, 29 Jun 2016 04:32:51 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms Hadfield, Strathmann, & Strathmann that they lack subvelar cilia arranged in metatrochal and food groove bands (Fretter 1967; Strathmann 1978a; Moran 1997). Some inferences of larval feeding in these groups have been disregarded because of insufficient evidence. It is, of course, difficult to prove a negative. To prove that a clade lacks feeding veligers, it would be necessary to demonstrate an incapacity for suspension feeding in all members of the clade. Although such exhaustive proof is impractical, evidence for or against the hypothesis of non-feeding can be obtained by observations of cilia, particle movements, and gut contents in veligers of representative species. Comparisons between non-feeding and feeding veligers also indicate the end points of evolutionary transitions under either hypothesis. If the cilia and currents of archaeogastropod veligers represent an ancestral condition, then one can look for a plausible evolutionary route to a velar feeding apparatus that consists of a food groove and metatrochal band beating in opposition to the prototroch. If a non-feeding veliger is a derived condition, then one should be able to account for similarities between clades that independently lost the capacity for larval feeding. Inferences on ancestral character states require more than a phylogeny and the distribution of traits in surviving lineages; they require assumed probabilities of transitions (Swofford & Maddison 1992). Which assumptions are most plausible depends on the traits and evolutionary processes (Strathmann 1974, 1978a; Gosliner & Ghiselin 1984; Bull & Charnov 1985; Strathmann & Eernisse 1994). For observations of velar cilia and currents, we selected larvae from three groups of archaeogastropod grade: the lottiid limpets Lottia pelta (RATHKE) and Tectura scutum (RATHKE) (Patellogastropoda), the fissurellid limpet Diodora aspera (RATHKE) (Vetigastropoda), and the trochid Calliostoma ligatum (GOULD) (Vetigastropoda). These species represent inferred early branches of the Gastropoda. The Patellogastropoda is inferred to be the most basal gastropod offshoot with extant descendants (Haszprunar 1988; Bieler 1992; Ponder & Lindberg 1996). Under this phylogenetic hypothesis, its divergence precedes all clades of gastropods presently possessing feeding veligers. Haszprunar assigns the Neritomorpha, which has feeding veligers, to a branch preceding that of the Vetigastropoda, but if the Neritomorpha originated after the Vetigastropoda, as suggested by others (Bieler 1992), then the Vetigastropoda also preceded all clades of gastropods known to have feeding veligers.