Whale bone communities in the deep Southwest Atlantic Ocean

M Shimabukuro, DM Couto, AF Bernardino… - Deep Sea Research …, 2022 - Elsevier
Whale falls are considered important habitats contributing to biodiversity, evolutionary
novelty and connectivity of deep-sea environments. The organic input of a whale carcass …

[HTML][HTML] Wooden stepping stones: diversity and biogeography of deep-sea wood boring Xylophagaidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia) in the North-East Atlantic Ocean, with the …

C Romano, A Nunes-Jorge, N Le Bris… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Wood boring bivalves of the family Xylophagaidae inhabit sunken wood on the deep-sea
floor where they play a key role in the degradation of this organic matter in the ocean. The …

Molecular affinity of southwest Atlantic Alvinocaris muricola with Atlantic equatorial belt populations

OS Pereira, M Shimabukuro, AF Bernardino… - Deep Sea Research …, 2020 - Elsevier
Specialist fauna populations from chemosynthetic ecosystems are connected through larval
stages travelling in current highways in the vast deep sea. One shrimp family of such …

Contrasting modes of mitochondrial genome evolution in sister taxa of wood-eating marine bivalves (Teredinidae and Xylophagaidae)

Y Li, MA Altamia, JR Shipway… - Genome Biology and …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The bivalve families Teredinidae and Xylophagaidae include voracious consumers of wood
in shallow-water and deep-water marine environments, respectively. The taxa are sister …

Mito‐nuclear discordance and phylogeography of the surf clam Mesodesma donacium along the Southeast Pacific coast

CR Liza, WB Stotz, PA Haye - Zoologica Scripta, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Mesodesma donacium is a surf clam endemic to the southeast Pacific coast, and it is an
important resource species of the sandy beach artisanal fishery in Peru and Chile. Over …

Evaluating the ichnofossil Teredolites as an indicator of salinity and paleoenvironment

RCC Buntin, ST Hasiotis, PP Flaig - Palaios, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The ichnogenus Teredolites and the Teredolites Ichnofacies is an accepted proxy for marine
influence in paralic to open marine depositional environments. Actualistic approaches and …

[HTML][HTML] Stable isotopic evidence of mixotrophy in Xylophagaids, deep-sea wood-boring bivalves

JR Voight, JC Cooper, RW Lee - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Deep-sea wood-boring xylophagaid bivalves are thought to ingest only wood and to use
nitrogen fixed by their symbiotic microbes. Reconsidering this assumption, we tested …

[HTML][HTML] Competition in the deep sea: phylogeny determines destructive impact of wood-boring xylophagaids (Mollusca: Bivalvia)

JR Voight, PR Heck, KT Du Clos - Marine Biodiversity, 2023 - Springer
How biotic interactions contribute to structuring deep-sea communities remains poorly
known. An example of exploitation competition, in which over time one species dominates a …

A new oerstediid discovered from wood falls in the Sea of Kumano, Japan: Description of Rhombonemertes rublinea gen. et sp. nov.(Nemertea: Eumonostilifera)

N Hookabe, T Moritaki, N Jimi, R Ueshima - Zoologischer Anzeiger, 2022 - Elsevier
Nemerteans in the family Oestediidae, 1993 occur worldwide, in various marine ecosystems
from tropical to polar regions. Recent faunistic studies have revealed unexpected species …

A new species of wood-boring bivalve (Mollusca: Xylophagaidae) from the Eastern Arabian Sea

PR Jayachandran, M Velásquez, M Jima - Marine Biodiversity, 2022 - Springer
A new species of wood-boring bivalve Xylophaga nandani sp. nov. is described based on
material obtained from floating woods collected with a bongo net on the eastern Arabian …