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Structure of hyperiid amphipod assemblages on Isla Gorgona, eastern tropical Pacific off Colombia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 December 2011

Bellineth Valencia  and
Alan Giraldo
Bellineth Valencia*
Affiliation:
Universidad del Valle, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Exactas, Departamento de Biología, Grupo de Investigación en Ciencias Oceanográficas, A.A. 25360, Cali, Colombia
Alan Giraldo
Affiliation:
Universidad del Valle, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Exactas, Departamento de Biología, Grupo de Investigación en Ciencias Oceanográficas, A.A. 25360, Cali, Colombia
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: B. Valencia, Universidad del Valle, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Exactas, Departamento de Biología, Grupo de Investigación en Ciencias Oceanográficas, A.A. 25360, Cali, Colombia email: bellival@univalle.edu.co
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Abstract

Temporal variation of hyperiid amphipod structure assemblages was studied on Isla Gorgona, eastern tropical Pacific (ETP) off Colombia between September 2005 and August 2006. Forty-six species were found during the entire sampling period: Hyperioides sibaginis, Lestrigonus bengalensis, Phronimopsis spinifera, Tetrathyrus forcipatus and Paralycaea gracilis dominated the assemblage, representing 92%. The dendogram based on the Bray–Curtis similarity index showed that the hyperiid assemblages were separated into two groups, which did not coincide with the seasonality described for the ETP (wet versus dry season). Rather, groups comprised wet (May to November) and dry season months (December to April). The first group included November, December, February and March. During these months, significantly higher hyperiid richness, diversity and abundance were found, although colder subsurface water temperatures in Gorgona were registered only during February and March. The other group included May to October and January, and was characterized by lower hyperiid diversity and abundance values. Significant correlations were found between hyperiid abundance and the possible gelatinous zooplankton hosts (medusae, siphonophores and salps). This study contributes to increasing knowledge of the zooplankton community in the Panama Bight, as well as of a poorly studied group in the ETP.

Keywords

HyperiideazooplanktonColombiaPanama Jeteastern tropical Pacific
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Research Article
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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 92 , Issue 7 , November 2012 , pp. 1489 - 1499
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2011

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Fig. 4. Relative abundance of the five most abundant species of hyperiids between September 2005 and August 2006 on Isla Gorgona. hyperiid amphipods from tropical pacific off colombia 5

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Fig. 7. Dendogram (A) and non-metric multidimensional scaling (B) analysis of hyperiid abundance using Bray–Curtis similarity index. Also based on similarity percentage analysis, the relative contribution and geometric mean (C) of the five most abundant species for each cluster are shown

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