Food ingestion and assimilation by Hyale media (Dana, 1853) (Crustacea - Amphipoda)

Tararam, Airton Santo; Mesquita, Hilda de Souza Lima; Wakabara, Yoko; Peres, Clóvis A

doi:10.1590/S0373-55241990000100003

Abstracts

The feeding of Hyale media was analysed under laboratory conditions in winter and summer temperatures. The results showed that assimilation rates increased following food ingestion rates and decreased when egestion rates increased. In winter temperatures no significant differences were found in the assimilation rates among developmental stages and sexes. In summer temperatures assimilation rates for ovigerous and non-ovigerous females were higher than those found for adult and young males. Although not statistically analysed, mean assimilation efficiencies were highest among ovigerous females and adult males, in summer. The quantitative and qualitative variations found in the assimilation efficiency and rates were explained by the differential effect of temperature on the specific growth rate and in the physiological conditions of each growth stage concerned.

Hyale media; Feeding experiments; Ingestion; Developmental stages; Assimilation; Organic carbon

No presente estudo foram analisados em laboratório, sob temperaturas de inverno e verão, aspectos quantitativos da alimentação de Hyale media (Crustacea-Amphipoda), utilizando-se o método gravimetría), aliado ao conteúdo de carbono dos itens alimentares oferecidos. Nos experimentos com temperatura de inverno não foi encontrado diferença significativa nas taxas de assimilação entre os diferentes estádios de desenvolvimento e sexo. Naqueles com temperatura de verão as taxas de assimilação para fêmeas ovígera e não ovígera foram maiores que aquelas encontradas para machos adulto e jovem. As variações encontradas nas taxa e eficiência de assimilação foram explicadas pelo efeito diferencial da temperatura sobre a taxa de crescimento específico e condições fisiológicas de cada estádio de desenvolvimento.

Hyale media; Experimentos de alimentação; Ingestão; Estádios de desenvolvimento; Assimilação; Carbono orgânico

ARTIGOS

Food ingestion and assimilation by Hyale media (Dana, 1853) (Crustacea - Amphipoda)

Airton Santo Tararam; Hilda de Souza Lima Mesquita; Yoko Wakabara; Clóvis A. Peres^* (* ) Instituto de Matemática e Estatística da Universidade de São Paulo (Caixa Postal 20570, 01498 São Paulo, SP).

Instituto Oceanográfico da Universidade de São Paulo (Caixa Postal 9075, 01051 São Paulo, SP)

ABSTRACT

The feeding of Hyale media was analysed under laboratory conditions in winter and summer temperatures. The results showed that assimilation rates increased following food ingestion rates and decreased when egestion rates increased. In winter temperatures no significant differences were found in the assimilation rates among developmental stages and sexes. In summer temperatures assimilation rates for ovigerous and non-ovigerous females were higher than those found for adult and young males. Although not statistically analysed, mean assimilation efficiencies were highest among ovigerous females and adult males, in summer. The quantitative and qualitative variations found in the assimilation efficiency and rates were explained by the differential effect of temperature on the specific growth rate and in the physiological conditions of each growth stage concerned.

Descriptors: Hyale media, Feeding experiments, Ingestion, Developmental stages, Assimilation, Organic carbon.

RESUMO

No presente estudo foram analisados em laboratório, sob temperaturas de inverno e verão, aspectos quantitativos da alimentação de Hyale media (Crustacea-Amphipoda), utilizando-se o método gravimetría), aliado ao conteúdo de carbono dos itens alimentares oferecidos.

Nos experimentos com temperatura de inverno não foi encontrado diferença significativa nas taxas de assimilação entre os diferentes estádios de desenvolvimento e sexo. Naqueles com temperatura de verão as taxas de assimilação para fêmeas ovígera e não ovígera foram maiores que aquelas encontradas para machos adulto e jovem.

As variações encontradas nas taxa e eficiência de assimilação foram explicadas pelo efeito diferencial da temperatura sobre a taxa de crescimento específico e condições fisiológicas de cada estádio de desenvolvimento.

Descritores: Hyale media, Experimentos de alimentação, Ingestão, Estádios de desenvolvimento, Assimilação, Carbono orgânico.

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We gratefully acknowledge the helpful criticism of the manuscript by Dr. G. S. Moreira.

(Received 16-Oct-89; accepted 27-Jun-90)

BRAWLEY, S. H. & ADEY, W. H. 1981. The effect of micrograzers on algal community structure in a coral reef microcosm. Mar. Biol., 61:167-177.
BRENNER, D.; VALIELA, J.; RAALTE, C. D.van & CARPENTER, E. J. 1976. Grazing by Talorchestia hngicornis on an algal mat in a New England salt marsh. J. expl mar. Biol. EcoL, 22:161-169.
CAREFOOT, T. H. 1973. Feeding preference, and the up take of food energy by the supralitoral isopod Ligia palasii. Mar. BioL, 18:228-236.
CONOVER, R. J. 1966. Assimilation of organic matter by zooplankton. Limnol. Oceanogr., 11:338-345.
EL WAKEEL, S. K. & RILEY, J. P. 1957. The determinations of organic carbon on marine muds. J. Cons. int. Explor. Mer, 22:180-183.
FRANKENBERG, D.; COLES, S. L. & JOHANNES, R. E. 1967. The potential trophic significance of Callianassa major fecal pellets. Limnol. Oceanogr., 12:113-120.
HARGRAVE, B. T. 1970. The utilization of benthic microflora byHyalella azteca (Amphipoda). J. Anim. Ecol., 39:427-437.
______ 1972. Prediction of egestion by the deposit- feeding amphipod Hyalella azteca. Oikos, 23:116-124.
JOHANNES, R. E. & SATOMI, M. 1966. Composition and nutritive value of fecal pellets of a marine crustacean. Limnol. Oceanogr., 11:191-196.
KINNE, 0.1960. Gammarus salinus - Einige Daten uber den Unwelteinfluss auf Wachstum, Häutungsfolge, Herzfrequens und Eientwicklungsdaner. Crustaceana, 1:208-217.
______ 1961. Growth, molting frequency, heart beat, number of eggs, and incubation time in Gammarus zaddachi exposed to different environments. Crustaceana, 2:26-36.
KITITSINA, L. A. 1975. Feeding rates of Pontogammarus robustoides at different temperatures. Hydrobiol. J., 11:35-40.
KOCK-KALLNBACK, M. E. & MEUERING, M. P. D. 1977. Duration of instars and praecopular in Gammarus pulex (Linnaeus, 1758) and Gammarus roeselii Genais, 1835 under semi- natural conditions. Crustaceana Suppl., 4:120-127.
LAWTON, J. A. 1970. Feeding and food energy assimilation in larvae of the damselfly Pyrrhosoma nymphula (Sulz.). J. Anim. Ecol, 39:669-689.
LEITE, F. P. P. 1976. Estádios de crescimento e aspectos da reprodução de Hyale media (Crustácea, Amphipoda, Hyalidae) da fauna vágil de Sargassum cymosum. M.Sc. thesis. Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto Oceanográfico. 74p.
MARSHALL, S. M. & ORR, A. P. 1964. Carbohydrate and organic matter in suspension in Loch Striven during 1962. J. mar. biol. Ass. U.K., 44:285-292.
NICOTRI, M.E. 1977. The impact of crustacean herbivores on cultured seaweed populations. Aquaculture, 12:127-136.
______ 1980. Factors involved in herbivore food preference. J. expl mar. Biol. Ecol., 42:13-26.
NIELSEN, M. V. & KOFOED, L. H. 1982. Selective feeding and epipsammic browsing by the deposit-feeding amphipod Corophium volutator. Mar. Ecol.-Prog. Ser., 10:81-88.
NILSSON, L. M. 1974. Energy budget of a laboratory population of Gammarus pulex (Amphipoda). Oikos, 25:35-42.
______ 1977. Incubation time, growth and mortality of the amphipod Gammarus pulex under laboratory conations. Oikos, 29:93-98.
POMEROY, W. M. & LEVTNGS, C. D. 1980. Association and feeding relationships between Eogammarus confervicolus (Amphipoda, Gammaridea) and benthic algae on Sturgeon and Roberts Banks, Fraser River Estuary. Can. J. Fish, aquat. Sci., 37:1-10.
PRINCE, L. H. & HYLLEBERG, J. 1982. Algae-faunal interactions in a mat of Ulva fenestrata in False Bay, Washington. Ophelia, 21:75-88.
PRUS, T. 1971. The assimilation efficiency of Asellus aquaticus L. (Crustacea, Isopoda). Freshwat. Biol., 1:287-305.
SHACKLOOK, P. F. & CROFT; G. B. 1981. Effect of grazers on Chondrus crispus in culture. Aquaculture, 22:331-342.
______ & DOYLE, R. W. 1983. Control of epiphytes in seaweed cultures using grazers. Aquaculture, 31:141- 151.
STEELE, D. H. 1973. The biology of Parhyalella pietchmanni Schellenberg, 1938 (Amphipoda, Hyalellidae) at Nosy Bé, Madagascar. Crustaceana, 25:276-280.
______ & STEELE, V. J. 1973. The biology of Gammarus (Crustacea, Amphipoda) in the north-western Atlantic. VII. The duration of embrionic development in the five species at various temperatures. Can. J. Zool., 51:995- 999.
STRICKLAND, J. D. H. & PARSONS, T. R. 1968. A practical handbook of sea water analysis. J. Fish. Res. Bd Can., 167:1- 311.
TARARAM, A. S. & WAKABARA, Y. 1981. The mobile fauna - especially Gammaridea - of Sargassum cymosum. Mar. EcoL - Prog. Ser., 5:157-163.
TARARAM, A. S. & WAKABARA, Y. 1982. Notes on the feeding of Blennius cristatus Linnaeus from a rocky pool of Itanhaém, São Paulo State. Bolm Inst, oceanogr., S Paulo, 31:1-3.
______ & LEITE, F. P. P. 1986. Vertical distribution of amphipods living on algae of a Brazilian intertidal rocky shore. Crustaceana, 51:183-187.
TSKHON-LUKANINA, Y. A.; SOLDANOVA, I. N. & NIKOLAYEVA, G. G. 1968. Food assimilation by bottom crustacean of the Sea of Azov and methods for its determination. Oceanology, 8:388-394.
VASSALO, L. & STEELE, D. H. 1980. Survival and growth of young Gammarus lawrencianus Bousfield, 1956, on different diets. Crustaceana, Suppl., 6:118-125.
WAKABARA, Y.; TARARAM, A.S.& TAKEDA, A. M. 1983. Comparative study of the amphipod fauna living on Sargassum of two Itanhaém shores, Brazil. J. crustacean Biol., 3:602-607.
WELTON, J. S. & CLARKE, R. T. 1980. Laboratory studies on the reproduction and growth of the amphipod Gammarus pulex (L.). J. Anim. Ecol., 49:581-592.
WILLOUGHBY, L. G. 1983. Feeding behaviour of Gammarus pulex (L.) (Amphipoda) on Nitella. Crustaceana, 44:245-250.
______ & SUTCLIFFE, D. W. 1976. Experiments on feeding and growth of the amphipod Gammarus pulex (L.) related to its distribution in the River Duddon. Freshwat. Biol., 6:-577-586.
WINER, B. J. 1971. Statistical principles in experimental design. 2nd ed New York, MacGrow-Hill. 366p.
ZIMMERMAN, R.; GIBSON, R. & HARRINGTON, J. 1979. Herbivory and detritivory among gammaridean amphipods from a Florida seagrass community. Mar. Biol., 54:41-47.

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) Instituto de Matemática e Estatística da Universidade de São Paulo (Caixa Postal 20570, 01498 São Paulo, SP).

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[2] BRENNER, D.; VALIELA, J.; RAALTE, C. D.van & CARPENTER, E. J. 1976. Grazing by Talorchestia hngicornis on an algal mat in a New England salt marsh. J. expl mar. Biol. EcoL, 22:161-169.

[3] CAREFOOT, T. H. 1973. Feeding preference, and the up take of food energy by the supralitoral isopod Ligia palasii. Mar. BioL, 18:228-236.

[4] CONOVER, R. J. 1966. Assimilation of organic matter by zooplankton. Limnol. Oceanogr., 11:338-345.

[5] EL WAKEEL, S. K. & RILEY, J. P. 1957. The determinations of organic carbon on marine muds. J. Cons. int. Explor. Mer, 22:180-183.

[6] FRANKENBERG, D.; COLES, S. L. & JOHANNES, R. E. 1967. The potential trophic significance of Callianassa major fecal pellets. Limnol. Oceanogr., 12:113-120.

[7] HARGRAVE, B. T. 1970. The utilization of benthic microflora byHyalella azteca (Amphipoda). J. Anim. Ecol., 39:427-437.

[8] ______ 1972. Prediction of egestion by the deposit- feeding amphipod Hyalella azteca. Oikos, 23:116-124.

[9] JOHANNES, R. E. & SATOMI, M. 1966. Composition and nutritive value of fecal pellets of a marine crustacean. Limnol. Oceanogr., 11:191-196.

[10] KINNE, 0.1960. Gammarus salinus - Einige Daten uber den Unwelteinfluss auf Wachstum, Häutungsfolge, Herzfrequens und Eientwicklungsdaner. Crustaceana, 1:208-217.

[11] ______ 1961. Growth, molting frequency, heart beat, number of eggs, and incubation time in Gammarus zaddachi exposed to different environments. Crustaceana, 2:26-36.

[12] KITITSINA, L. A. 1975. Feeding rates of Pontogammarus robustoides at different temperatures. Hydrobiol. J., 11:35-40.

[13] KOCK-KALLNBACK, M. E. & MEUERING, M. P. D. 1977. Duration of instars and praecopular in Gammarus pulex (Linnaeus, 1758) and Gammarus roeselii Genais, 1835 under semi- natural conditions. Crustaceana Suppl., 4:120-127.

[14] LAWTON, J. A. 1970. Feeding and food energy assimilation in larvae of the damselfly Pyrrhosoma nymphula (Sulz.). J. Anim. Ecol, 39:669-689.

[15] LEITE, F. P. P. 1976. Estádios de crescimento e aspectos da reprodução de Hyale media (Crustácea, Amphipoda, Hyalidae) da fauna vágil de Sargassum cymosum. M.Sc. thesis. Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto Oceanográfico. 74p.

[16] MARSHALL, S. M. & ORR, A. P. 1964. Carbohydrate and organic matter in suspension in Loch Striven during 1962. J. mar. biol. Ass. U.K., 44:285-292.

[17] NICOTRI, M.E. 1977. The impact of crustacean herbivores on cultured seaweed populations. Aquaculture, 12:127-136.

[18] ______ 1980. Factors involved in herbivore food preference. J. expl mar. Biol. Ecol., 42:13-26.

[19] NIELSEN, M. V. & KOFOED, L. H. 1982. Selective feeding and epipsammic browsing by the deposit-feeding amphipod Corophium volutator. Mar. Ecol.-Prog. Ser., 10:81-88.

[20] NILSSON, L. M. 1974. Energy budget of a laboratory population of Gammarus pulex (Amphipoda). Oikos, 25:35-42.

[21] ______ 1977. Incubation time, growth and mortality of the amphipod Gammarus pulex under laboratory conations. Oikos, 29:93-98.

[22] POMEROY, W. M. & LEVTNGS, C. D. 1980. Association and feeding relationships between Eogammarus confervicolus (Amphipoda, Gammaridea) and benthic algae on Sturgeon and Roberts Banks, Fraser River Estuary. Can. J. Fish, aquat. Sci., 37:1-10.

[23] PRINCE, L. H. & HYLLEBERG, J. 1982. Algae-faunal interactions in a mat of Ulva fenestrata in False Bay, Washington. Ophelia, 21:75-88.

[24] PRUS, T. 1971. The assimilation efficiency of Asellus aquaticus L. (Crustacea, Isopoda). Freshwat. Biol., 1:287-305.

[25] SHACKLOOK, P. F. & CROFT; G. B. 1981. Effect of grazers on Chondrus crispus in culture. Aquaculture, 22:331-342.

[26] ______ & DOYLE, R. W. 1983. Control of epiphytes in seaweed cultures using grazers. Aquaculture, 31:141- 151.

[27] STEELE, D. H. 1973. The biology of Parhyalella pietchmanni Schellenberg, 1938 (Amphipoda, Hyalellidae) at Nosy Bé, Madagascar. Crustaceana, 25:276-280.

[28] ______ & STEELE, V. J. 1973. The biology of Gammarus (Crustacea, Amphipoda) in the north-western Atlantic. VII. The duration of embrionic development in the five species at various temperatures. Can. J. Zool., 51:995- 999.

[29] STRICKLAND, J. D. H. & PARSONS, T. R. 1968. A practical handbook of sea water analysis. J. Fish. Res. Bd Can., 167:1- 311.

[30] TARARAM, A. S. & WAKABARA, Y. 1981. The mobile fauna - especially Gammaridea - of Sargassum cymosum. Mar. EcoL - Prog. Ser., 5:157-163.

[31] TARARAM, A. S. & WAKABARA, Y. 1982. Notes on the feeding of Blennius cristatus Linnaeus from a rocky pool of Itanhaém, São Paulo State. Bolm Inst, oceanogr., S Paulo, 31:1-3.

[32] ______ & LEITE, F. P. P. 1986. Vertical distribution of amphipods living on algae of a Brazilian intertidal rocky shore. Crustaceana, 51:183-187.

[33] TSKHON-LUKANINA, Y. A.; SOLDANOVA, I. N. & NIKOLAYEVA, G. G. 1968. Food assimilation by bottom crustacean of the Sea of Azov and methods for its determination. Oceanology, 8:388-394.

[34] VASSALO, L. & STEELE, D. H. 1980. Survival and growth of young Gammarus lawrencianus Bousfield, 1956, on different diets. Crustaceana, Suppl., 6:118-125.

[35] WAKABARA, Y.; TARARAM, A.S.& TAKEDA, A. M. 1983. Comparative study of the amphipod fauna living on Sargassum of two Itanhaém shores, Brazil. J. crustacean Biol., 3:602-607.

[36] WELTON, J. S. & CLARKE, R. T. 1980. Laboratory studies on the reproduction and growth of the amphipod Gammarus pulex (L.). J. Anim. Ecol., 49:581-592.

[37] WILLOUGHBY, L. G. 1983. Feeding behaviour of Gammarus pulex (L.) (Amphipoda) on Nitella. Crustaceana, 44:245-250.

[38] ______ & SUTCLIFFE, D. W. 1976. Experiments on feeding and growth of the amphipod Gammarus pulex (L.) related to its distribution in the River Duddon. Freshwat. Biol., 6:-577-586.

[39] WINER, B. J. 1971. Statistical principles in experimental design. 2nd ed New York, MacGrow-Hill. 366p.

[40] ZIMMERMAN, R.; GIBSON, R. & HARRINGTON, J. 1979. Herbivory and detritivory among gammaridean amphipods from a Florida seagrass community. Mar. Biol., 54:41-47.

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