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Issue: Vol. 31 No. 2: 28 July 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-07-28
DOI: 10.11646/mr.31.2.4
Page range: 95–105
Abstract views: 64
PDF downloaded: 29

Genus-specific commensalism of the galeommatoid bivalve Koreamya arcuata (A. Adams, 1856) associated with lingulid brachiopods

The Tohoku University Museum, 6-3 Aoba, Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8578, Japan.
Department of Biological Sciences, Kanagawa University, 2946 Tsuchiya, Hiratsuka 259-1293, Japan.
Marine Biodiversity Research Program, Institute of Biogeosciences, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), 2-15 Natsushima-cho, Yokosuka, Kanagawa 237-0061, Japan.
Department of Oceanography, Inha University, Incheon 402-751, South Korea.
Section of Marine Biology, Biological Institute, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark.
Association of Conservation Malacology, 3-1-26-103 Kugenuma-Mastugaoka, Fujisawa 251-0038, Japan.
Galeommatoid bivalve Ectosymbiosis Lingula Mitochondrial COI gene Montacutidae Nuclear ITS Shell morphology South Korea

Abstract

We compared shell morphology and DNA sequences of the ectosymbiotic bivalves Koreamya (Montacutidae) attached to two different species of inarticulate brachiopods Lingula collected from South Korea. There are some differences in shell morphology between K. arcuata (A. Adams, 1856) attached to Lingula anatina and K. sp. attached to L. adamsi, such as shell outline, periostracum and hinge teeth. However, there are very few differences in DNA sequences of COI and ITS1 suggesting that the two forms of Koreamya are genetically conspecific. While many ectosymbiotic Galeommatoidea species have been reported to live commensally with only one host species, this study suggested that K. arcuata lives commensally with at least two species of Lingula and that its shell morphology may vary according to the host species.