Motile homes: a comparison of the spatial distribution of epibiont communities on Mediterranean sea turtles

Autor:	Wayne J. Fuller, P. Thorne, Annette C. Broderick, R. Enever, Brendan J. Godley
Rok vydání:	2010
Předmět:	Barnacle Mediterranean sea Sea turtle Range (biology) Ecology Caprella Carapace Biology Epibiont Spatial distribution biology.organism_classification Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics
Zdroj:	Journal of Natural History. 44:1743-1753
ISSN:	1464-5262 0022-2933
DOI:	10.1080/00222931003624820
Popis:	Understanding the ecological roles performed by an individual species requires knowledge from a wide range of disciplines; here we analyze the epibiont–host relationship found in marine turtles. During the study we recorded five new species of sea turtle epibiont: Laomedea flexuosa, Caprella fretensis, Hyale nilssoni, Hyale schmidti, Parasinelobus chevreuxi; as part of a total of nine zoological epibionts present on 35 female green turtles (Chelonia mydas) and 100 loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta) nesting in Cyprus. The two most commonly occurring epibionts were acorn barnacles Chelonibia testudinaria and Chelonibia caretta, with larger specimens of both species recorded on loggerhead turtles. We analyzed the spatial distribution of these two barnacle species upon the carapaces of their hosts. Specimens of C. testudinaria situated on the anterior half of the carapace were larger than those located at the posterior. A significantly larger proportion of loggerhead turtles (52.5%) hosted epibionts in comp...
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