Substrate preference by the porcelain crab Pachycheles monilifer (Crustacea, Anomura): the bryozoan Schizoporella errata or the polychaete Phragmatopoma caudata?

Tamburus, Ana Francisca; Negri, Mariana; Rossi, Natália; Mantelatto, Fernando L.; Pardo, Luis Miguel

Abstract

Differences on reproductive performance between two sampling points of the porcelain crab Pachycheles monilifer from Ubatuba (São Paulo, Brazil), one from Itaguá Beach (living on Schizoporella errata) and the other from Grande Beach (living on Phragmatopoma caudata) has been previously observed. Therefore could be expected a specific behavior in substrate preference to optimize the best biogenic habitat. Considering this premise, our goal was to test the substrate preference of this species when both substrates were simultaneously available. In total, 185 individuals were collected in these same localities and they were submitted to substrate selection experiments. The trials were conducted on containers with quiet seawater at 28 ± 1°C and under dark photoperiod. Specimens were exposed to substrates by 30 min. Trials started with the release of one animal per treatment in the middle of the opposite side to the substrate inside the containers. After the established time, the substrate preference of each porcelain crab was verified. As result, no preference pattern was found and the choices in the experiment were not significantly different from the expected. This lack of preferences may be an indication that porcelain crabs are generalists in habitat use regardless of sex of individuals and potential benefit in fitness. Therefore, the differences on the reproductive aspects of the P. monilifer probably are associated with environment factors not simulated in this study and may indicate the occurrence of plasticity in habitat selection behavior.

Behavior; habitat; plasticity; Porcellanidae; trials

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Brooks, W.R. and Rittschof, D. 1995. Chemical detection and host selection by the symbiotic crab Porcellana sayana Invertebrate Biology, 114(2): 180-185.
Brown, J.H. and Lomolino, M.V. 2006. Biogeografia. FUNPEC, 691pp.
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Morgado, E.H. and Tanaka, M.O. 2001. The macrofauna associated with the bryozoans Schizoporella errata (Walters) in southeastern Brazil. Scientia Marina, 65(3): 173-181.
O'Connor, N.J. and Van, B.T. 2006. Adult fiddler crabs Uca pugnax (Smith) enhance sediment-associated cues for molting of conspecific megalopae. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 335(1): 123-130.
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Veloso, V.G. and Melo, G.A.S. 1993. Taxonomia e distribuição da família Porcellanidae (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura) no litoral brasileiro. Iheringia, Série Zoologia, 75: 171-186.
Wilson, W.H. 1979. Community structure and species diversity of the sedimentary reefs constructed by Petaloproctus socialis (Polychaeta: Maldanidae). Journal of Marine Research, 37(4): 623-641.

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Substrate preference by the porcelain crab Pachycheles monilifer (Crustacea, Anomura): the bryozoan Schizoporella errata or the polychaete Phragmatopoma caudata?

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