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Density of larval and adult forms of the burrowing crustaceans Lepidophthalmus siriboia (Callianassidae) and Upogebia vasquezi (Upogebiidae) in an Amazon estuary, northern Brazil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2011

Danielly Brito de Oliveira ,
Dalila Costa Silva  and
Jussara Moretto Martinelli
Danielly Brito de Oliveira*
Affiliation:
Laboratório de Biologia Pesqueira e Manejo dos Recursos Aquáticos, Grupo de Pesquisa em Ecologia de Crustáceos da Amazônia (GPECA), Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Faculdade de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Pará, Avenida Augusto Corrêa, 01, Belém, Pará, CEP: 66075-110, Brazil
Dalila Costa Silva
Affiliation:
Laboratório de Biologia Pesqueira e Manejo dos Recursos Aquáticos, Grupo de Pesquisa em Ecologia de Crustáceos da Amazônia (GPECA), Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Faculdade de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Pará, Avenida Augusto Corrêa, 01, Belém, Pará, CEP: 66075-110, Brazil
Jussara Moretto Martinelli
Affiliation:
Laboratório de Biologia Pesqueira e Manejo dos Recursos Aquáticos, Grupo de Pesquisa em Ecologia de Crustáceos da Amazônia (GPECA), Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Faculdade de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Pará, Avenida Augusto Corrêa, 01, Belém, Pará, CEP: 66075-110, Brazil
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Correspondence should be addressed to: D. Brito de Oliveira, Laboratório de Biologia Pesqueira e Manejo dos Recursos Aquáticos, Grupo de Pesquisa em Ecologia de Crustáceos da Amazônia (GPECA), Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Faculdade de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Pará, Avenida Augusto Corrêa, 01, Belém, Pará, CEP: 66075-110, Brazil email: danybrito@ufpa.br
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Abstract

Although thalassinidean shrimps exert considerable influence over the structure of benthic communities no ecological studies have been conducted on the larvae and adults of Lepidophthalmus siriboia and Upogebia vasquezi in the equatorial region. The aim of the present study was to identify the reproductive period of these species in an Amazonian estuary. Monthly collections were performed in the estuary of the Marapanim River (northern coast of Brazil) over the course of one year (August 2006 to July 2007) and adults were obtained from bare sandy substrate and between boulders in the intertidal zone of the estuary at four sites. Thalassinidean larvae were also sorted from plankton samples (200 μm mesh) collected monthly at six sites. Larvae of the species Callichirus major, Lepidophthalmus siriboia and Upogebia vasquezi were collected, whereas adults of only the latter two species were found. Upogebia vasquezi was the most abundant species. There was no correlation between larval density and abiotic factors (water temperature, salinity and pH); however, the density of U. vasquezi adults was negatively correlated with salinity in the burrows. Lepidophthalmus siriboia and U. vasquezi reproduce throughout the year in the Marapanim River estuary, with peaks of greater intensity in some reproductive periods of the year, mainly correlated with changes in salinity.

Keywords

estuarymeroplanktonmacrobenthosAmazon
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Research Article
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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 92 , Issue 2 , March 2012 , pp. 295 - 303
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2011

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