Moonsnail hatching success, development timing and early feeding behaviour at the high-latitude White Sea
Abstract As predators, Naticidae (Gastropoda) can shape marine soft-sediment communities. Thus understanding of the reproductive biology and development of moonsnails is of great importance. Most moonsnails lay large egg masses, known as sand or egg collars, which are freely distributed on sand or m...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0025315420001083 2024-09-15T18:40:40+00:00 Moonsnail hatching success, development timing and early feeding behaviour at the high-latitude White Sea Aristov, Dmitriy Flachinskaya, Lyudmila Varfolomeeva, Marina 2020 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0025315420001083 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0025315420001083 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom volume 100, issue 7, page 1071-1078 ISSN 0025-3154 1469-7769 journal-article 2020 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315420001083 2024-08-21T04:04:32Z Abstract As predators, Naticidae (Gastropoda) can shape marine soft-sediment communities. Thus understanding of the reproductive biology and development of moonsnails is of great importance. Most moonsnails lay large egg masses, known as sand or egg collars, which are freely distributed on sand or muddy sediments. Here we report upon the abundance of egg collars of two naticid species, Amauropsis islandica and Euspira pallida , from the high-latitude White Sea, as well as describe the morphology of egg collars and hatching success, with a brief description of juvenile feeding in A. islandica . While in the subtidal zone, the egg collars of E. pallida were 10 times more abundant than of A. islandica , the egg collars of the latter species were the only ones that occur in the intertidal zone. The morphology of an egg collar of E. pallida differed from the literature descriptions by having a plicated basal margin. The number of egg capsules inside the collars was twice as high in A. islandica compared with E. pallida , but they were smaller. Amauropsis islandica hatchlings were larger and hatching success was more than twice that in E. pallida . We suggest that these characteristics promote the high abundance of A. islandica populations observed on some tidal flats of the White Sea. Surprisingly, A. islandica juveniles could perform non-drilling feeding in the first month after hatching. This study fills the gap in the knowledge of naticid reproductive biology at high latitudes. Article in Journal/Newspaper White Sea Cambridge University Press Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 100 7 1071 1078 |
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Abstract As predators, Naticidae (Gastropoda) can shape marine soft-sediment communities. Thus understanding of the reproductive biology and development of moonsnails is of great importance. Most moonsnails lay large egg masses, known as sand or egg collars, which are freely distributed on sand or muddy sediments. Here we report upon the abundance of egg collars of two naticid species, Amauropsis islandica and Euspira pallida , from the high-latitude White Sea, as well as describe the morphology of egg collars and hatching success, with a brief description of juvenile feeding in A. islandica . While in the subtidal zone, the egg collars of E. pallida were 10 times more abundant than of A. islandica , the egg collars of the latter species were the only ones that occur in the intertidal zone. The morphology of an egg collar of E. pallida differed from the literature descriptions by having a plicated basal margin. The number of egg capsules inside the collars was twice as high in A. islandica compared with E. pallida , but they were smaller. Amauropsis islandica hatchlings were larger and hatching success was more than twice that in E. pallida . We suggest that these characteristics promote the high abundance of A. islandica populations observed on some tidal flats of the White Sea. Surprisingly, A. islandica juveniles could perform non-drilling feeding in the first month after hatching. This study fills the gap in the knowledge of naticid reproductive biology at high latitudes. |
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Aristov, Dmitriy Flachinskaya, Lyudmila Varfolomeeva, Marina Moonsnail hatching success, development timing and early feeding behaviour at the high-latitude White Sea |
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Aristov, Dmitriy Flachinskaya, Lyudmila Varfolomeeva, Marina |
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Moonsnail hatching success, development timing and early feeding behaviour at the high-latitude White Sea |
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Moonsnail hatching success, development timing and early feeding behaviour at the high-latitude White Sea |
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Moonsnail hatching success, development timing and early feeding behaviour at the high-latitude White Sea |
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Moonsnail hatching success, development timing and early feeding behaviour at the high-latitude White Sea |
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Moonsnail hatching success, development timing and early feeding behaviour at the high-latitude White Sea |
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moonsnail hatching success, development timing and early feeding behaviour at the high-latitude white sea |
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