Some Aspects of the Biology, Population Dynamics, and Functional Morphology of Musculista senhausia Benson (Bivalvia, Mytilidae)
Some Aspects of the Biology, Population Dynamics, and Functional Morphology of Musculista senhausia Benson (Bivalvia, Mytilidae)
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Musculista senhausia Benson(双壳纲,贝科)的生物学、种群动态和功能形态学的某些方面
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1974
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B. Morton
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B. Morton
THE MYTILACEA with the Dreissenacea are perhaps the most specialized and most successful heteromyarian bivalves. Their similarity is probably not phylogenetic, as suggested by Purchon and Brown (1969), but is the result of convergence and the adoption of similar habits (Yonge and Campbell 1968). Thus, the European dreissenid Dreissena po/ymorpha and the Asian mytilid Limnoperna forlunei have both adopted a mode of life involving the colonization of hard surfaces in fresh waters (Morton 1969a in press). The evolution of the heteromyarian condition in these bivalve lines probably proceeded from different isomyarian ancestors, with the neotenous retention of the larval byssus by the adult (Yonge 1962). This process, occurring in shallow coastal waters, must have enabled the ancestors of modern-day species initially to colonize the intertidal zone. Here the Mytilacea have been extremely successful and inhabit rocky shores the world over. Other mytil ids may be found sublittorally, e.g., Crenella (Soot-Ryen 1955); in estuaries, e.g., Xenoslrobus (Wilson 1967); in fresh waters, e.g., Limnoperna (Morton, in press); and even as highly specialized commensals, e.g., Fungiaeava (Goreau et al. 1969). The Dreissenacea by contrast have not undergone this extensive adaptive radiation and are restricted to estuaries, e.g., Congeria (Wolff 1969) and fresh waters, e.g., Dreissena (Morton 1969a). Within their spheres of influence, however, both of these bivalve lines cause problems as fouling organisms, e.g., Dreissena (Morton 196ge) and Mylilus (Haderlie 1968).