Nassariid whelks hitch-hiking on Cancer pagurus: phoresis, commensalism or fouling?. (5th October 2015)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Nassariid whelks hitch-hiking on Cancer pagurus: phoresis, commensalism or fouling?. (5th October 2015)
- Main Title:
- Nassariid whelks hitch-hiking on Cancer pagurus: phoresis, commensalism or fouling?
- Authors:
- Davenport, John
McCullough, Sheila
Thomas, Robert W.
Harman, Luke
McAllen, Rob - Abstract:
- Abstract : The behavioural responses of scavenging animals to mackerel ( Scomber scombrus ) baits were studied by short-term video photography in shallow water (16–18 m depth) at Lough Hyne, Ireland. Earliest arrivals (after seconds/minutes) at baits were small fish or swimming crabs ( Liocarcinus depurator ), followed by crawling portunid crabs. After tens of minutes, juvenile whelks 2–4 mm shell length ( Nassarius reticulatus and/or Nassarius incrassatus ) sometimes arrived to feed. They moved at a mean speed of 1.24 (SD 0.392) mm s −1 . After tens of minutes or hours, single large scavengers arrived, consuming most of the bait; the most common of these were Cancer pagurus that fed in a wasteful fashion, generating large quantities of mackerel scraps. Cancer pagurus moved into view at a mean speed of 48.7 (SD 16.9) mm s −1 (39 times the whelk speed). A single individual of C. pagurus (197 mm carapace width) arrived at a bait carrying 24 juvenile whelks on the dorsal surface of its carapace. No whelks were present on walking legs or chelipeds. The crab fed for 6.8 min and 3 whelks fell off before it departed. The nature of this crab/whelk association is discussed; on balance it appears that it is a previously unreported example of phoresy/phoresis. No whelks were observed being carried by other edible crabs or upon large numbers of scavenging portunid crabs.
- Is Part Of:
- Marine biodiversity records. Volume 8(2015)
- Journal:
- Marine biodiversity records
- Issue:
- Volume 8(2015)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 8, Issue 2015 (2015)
- Year:
- 2015
- Volume:
- 8
- Issue:
- 2015
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2015-0008-2015-0000
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- Publication Date:
- 2015-10-05
- Subjects:
- phoresy/phoresis, -- commensalism, -- fouling, -- whelks, -- Nassarius, -- Cancer pagurus, -- hitch-hiking
Marine biodiversity -- Periodicals
Marine biology -- Periodicals
578.77 - Journal URLs:
- http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=mbd ↗
http://mbr.biomedcentral.com/ ↗
http://link.springer.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1017/S1755267215001232 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1755-2672
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