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Moonsnail hatching success, development timing and early feeding behaviour at the high-latitude White Sea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 November 2020

Dmitriy Aristov Open the ORCID record for Dmitriy Aristov [Opens in a new window] ,
Lyudmila Flachinskaya  and
Marina Varfolomeeva Open the ORCID record for Marina Varfolomeeva [Opens in a new window]
Dmitriy Aristov*
Affiliation:
Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya emb., 1, St.-Petersburg, 199034, Russia
Lyudmila Flachinskaya
Affiliation:
Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya emb., 1, St.-Petersburg, 199034, Russia
Marina Varfolomeeva
Affiliation:
Saint-Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya emb., 7/9, St.-Petersburg, 199034, Russia
*
Author for correspondence: Dmitriy Aristov, E-mail: amauropsis@gmail.com
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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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Amauropsis islandicaegg collarsEuspira pallidanaticidswitch feeding modeWhite Sea
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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 100 , Issue 7 , November 2020 , pp. 1071 - 1078
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2020

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We dedicate this paper to the memory of our co-author, who unfortunately succumbed to Covid-19.

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