Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-fbnjt Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-15T19:21:20.014Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Clytia hummelincki (Hydroidomedusae: Leptomedusae) in the Mediterranean Sea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2008

Cinzia Gravili ,
Paolo D'Ambrosio ,
Cristina Di Camillo ,
Giuseppina Renna ,
Jean Bouillon  and
Ferdinando Boero
Cinzia Gravili*
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche ed Ambientali, (Di.S.Te.B.A.), University of Salento, Via Prov. le Lecce-Monteroni, I-73100 Lecce, Italy
Paolo D'Ambrosio
Affiliation:
Marine Protected Area of Porto Cesareo, I-73010 Porto Cesareo (LE), Italy
Cristina Di Camillo
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze del Mare, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Via Brecce Bianche, I-60131 Ancona, Italy
Giuseppina Renna
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche ed Ambientali, (Di.S.Te.B.A.), University of Salento, Via Prov. le Lecce-Monteroni, I-73100 Lecce, Italy
Jean Bouillon
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche ed Ambientali, (Di.S.Te.B.A.), University of Salento, Via Prov. le Lecce-Monteroni, I-73100 Lecce, Italy
Ferdinando Boero
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche ed Ambientali, (Di.S.Te.B.A.), University of Salento, Via Prov. le Lecce-Monteroni, I-73100 Lecce, Italy
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: Cinzia Gravili, Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche ed, Ambientali, (Di.S.Te.B.A.), University of Salento, Via Prov. le Lecce-Monteroni I-73100 Lecce, Italy email: [email protected]
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

The inconspicuous hydrozoan Clytia hummelincki, first recorded from the Mediterranean Sea in 1996, is presently widespread throughout the middle Mediterranean Sea and the Adriatic Sea. Two surveys carried out in 2003 and 2004 along the coast of the Salento Peninsula, Italy, showed that this species inhabits a belt between 0.5 and 2 m depth in sea urchin barrens and in areas damaged by date mussel fisheries. The comparison between the two surveys indicates that the frequency of the alien increased from 2003 to 2004. The life cycle of C. hummelincki is described for the first time.

Keywords

Clytia hummelinckiMediterranean Sea
Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 88 , Special Issue 8: Hydrozoans , December 2008 , pp. 1547 - 1553
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2008

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Boero, F. (2002) Ship-driven biological invasions in the Mediterranean Sea. In Briand, F. (ed.) CIESM Workshop Monographs, Instanbul, 6–9 November 2002. Alien marine organisms introduced by ships in the Mediterranean and Black Seas. Monaco: CIESM Publishers, pp. 87–91.Google Scholar
Boero, F. and Bonsdorff, E. (2007) A conceptual framework for marine biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Marine Ecology 28, 134–145.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Boero, F. and Bouillon, J. (1987) Inconsistent evolution and paedomorphosis among the hydroids and medusae of the Athecatae/Anthomedusae and the Thecatae/Leptomedusae (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa). In Bouillon, J. et al. . (eds) Modern trends in the systematics, ecology and evolution of hydroids and hydromedusae. Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 229–250.Google Scholar
Boero, F., Bouillon, J., Gravili, C. and Piraino, S. (2003) Who cares about the Hydrozoa of the Mediterranean Sea? An essay on the zoogeography of inconspicuous groups. Biogeographia 24, 101–113.Google Scholar
Boero, F., Di Camillo, C. and Gravili, C. (2005) Aquatic invasions: phantom aliens in Mediterranean waters. MarBEF Newsletter 3, 21–22.Google Scholar
Boero, F., Gravili, C., Denitto, F., Miglietta, M.P. and Bouillon, J. (1997) The rediscovery of Codonorchis octaedrus (Hydroidomedusae, Anthomedusae, Pandeidae), with an update of the Mediterranean hydroidomedusan biodiversity. Italian Journal of Zoology 64, 359–365.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Boero, F. and Sarà, M. (1987) Motile sexual stages and evolution of Leptomedusae (Cnidaria). Bollettino di Zoologia 54, 131–139.Google Scholar
Bouillon, J., Medel, M.D., Pagès, F., Gili, J.-M., Boero, F. and Gravili, C. (2004) Fauna of the Mediterranean Hydrozoa. Scientia Marina 68, 1–449.Google Scholar
Buchanan, J.B. (1957) The hydroid fauna of the Gold Coast. Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines 56, 349–372.Google Scholar
Calder, D.R. (1991) Shallow-water hydroids of Bermuda. The Thecatae, exclusive of Plumularioidea. Royal Ontario Museum Life Sciences Contributions 154, i–iv, 1–140.Google Scholar
Calder, D.R., Mallinson, J.J., Collins, K. and Hickman, C.P. (2003) Additions to the hydroids (Cnidaria) of the Galapagos, with a list of species reported from the islands. Journal of Natural History 37, 1173–1218.Google Scholar
Carlton, J.T. and Geller, J.B. (1993) Ecological roulette: the global transport of nonindigenous marine organisms. Science 261, 78–82.Google Scholar
Carré, D. and Carré, C. (2000) Origin of germ cells, sex determination, and sex inversion in medusae of the genus Clytia (Hydrozoa, Leptomedusae): the influence of temperature. Journal of Experimental Zoology 287, 233–242.3.0.CO;2-F>CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
CIESM (2002) Alien marine organisms introduced by ships in the Mediterranean and Black Seas. Workshops Monographs, no. 20, Monaco, 136 pp.Google Scholar
Cornelius, P.F.S. (1982) Hydroids and medusae of the family Campanulariidae recorded from the eastern North Atlantic, with a world synopsis of genera. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology 42, 37–148.Google Scholar
Deevey, E.S. (1954) Hydroids of the Gulf of Mexico. In Galtsoff, P.S. (ed.) Gulf of Mexico. Its origin, waters, and marine life. Fishery Bulletin. Fish and Wildlife Service, United States 55, 267–272.Google Scholar
Fanelli, G., Giangrande, A., Miglietta, M.P., Morri, C., Piraino, S. and Rubino, F. (1999) Human disturbance and biodiversity along the Apulian coast. Biologia Marina Mediterranea 6, 198–204.Google Scholar
Fanelli, G., Piraino, S., Belmonte, G., Geraci, S. and Boero, F. (1994) Human predation along Apulian rocky coasts (SE Italy): desertification caused by Lithophaga lithophaga (Mollusca) fisheries. Marine Ecology Progress Series 110, 1–8.Google Scholar
Fraschetti, S., Bianchi, C.N., Boero, F., Buia, M.C., Della Tommasa, L., Denitto, F., Esposito, L., Fanelli, G., Giangrande, A., Miglietta, M.P., Morri, C., Piraino, S. and Rubino, F. (1999) Human disturbance and biodiversity along the Apulian coast. Biologia Marina Mediterranea 6, 198–204.Google Scholar
Galil, B.S., Froglia, C. and Noël, P. (2002) Crustaceans–decapods and stomatopods. In Briand, F. (ed.) CIESM atlas of exotic species in the Mediterranean. Vol. 2. Monaco: CIESM Publishers, 196 pp.Google Scholar
Galil, B. and Zenetos, A. (2002) A sea change—exotics in the eastern Mediterranean. In Leppäkoski, E. et al. . (eds) Invasive aquatic species of Europe: distributions, impacts and management. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 325–336.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Golani, D., Orsi-Relini, L., Massuti, E. and Quignard, J.P. (2002) Fishes. In Briand, F. (ed.) CIESM atlas of exotic species in the Mediterranean. Vol. 1. Monaco: CIESM Publishers, 256 pp.Google Scholar
Govindarajan, A.F., Boero, F. and Halanych, K.M. (2006) Phylogenetic analysis with multiple markers indicates repeated loss of the adult medusa stage in Campanulariidae (Hydrozoa, Cnidaria). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 38, 820–834.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Haddad, M.A. (1992) Hidróides (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) de costões rochosos do litoral sul do Estado de Paraná. PhD thesis, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.Google Scholar
Halim, Y. and Messih, M.A. (1999) The Suez Canal revisited. changes in the ascidian fauna of the canal. Communication read at International conference on ‘Oceanography of the eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea’ 23–26 February 1999. EU Report: 367 p.Google Scholar
Hincks, Th. (1868) A history of the British hydroid zoophytes, Vol. 1. London: John van Voorst.Google Scholar
Kelmo, F. and Attrill, M.J. (2003) Shallow-water Campanulariidae (Hydrozoa, Leptothecatae) from Northern Bahía, Brazil. Revista de Biología Tropical 51, 123–146.Google ScholarPubMed
Leloup, E. (1935) Hydraires calyptoblastiques des Indes Occidentales. Mémoires du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique, Série 2 22, 1–73.Google Scholar
Levitus, S., Anotonov, J.I., Boyer, T.P. and Stephens, C. (2000) Warming of the world ocean. Science 287, 2225–2229.Google Scholar
Lindner, A. and Migotto, A.E. (2002) The life cycle of Clytia linearis and Clytia noliformis: metagenic campanulariids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) with contrasting polyp and medusa stages. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 82, 541–553.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ma, X. and Purcell, J.E. (2005) Temperature, salinity, and prey effects on polyp versus medusa bud production by the invasive hydrozoan Moerisia lyonsi. Marine Biology (Berlin) 147, 225–234.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Miglietta, M.P., Della Tommasa, L., Denitto, F., Gravili, C., Pagliara, P., Bouillon, J. and Boero, F. (2000) Approaches to the ethology of hydroids and medusae (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa). In Mills, C.E. et al. . (eds) Trends in hydrozoan biology. Vol. IV. Scientia Marina 64, 63–71.Google Scholar
Migotto, A.E. (1996) Benthic shallow-water hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) of the coast of São Sebastião, Brazil, including a checklist of Brazilian hydroids. Zoologische Verhandelingen Leiden 306, 1–125.Google Scholar
Millard, N.A.H. (1966) The Hydrozoa of the south and west coasts of South Africa. Part III. The Gymnoblastea and small families of the Calyptoblastea. Annals of the South African Museum 48, 427–487.Google Scholar
Millard, N.A.H. (1975) Monograph on the Hydroida of southern Africa. Annals of the South African Museum 68, 1–513.Google Scholar
Mills, C.E. (1981) Diversity of swimming behaviors in hydromedusae as related to feeding and utilization of space. Marine Biology (Berlin) 64, 185–189.Google Scholar
Occhipinti-Ambrogi, A. and Savini, D. (2003) Biological invasions as a component of global change in stressed marine ecosystems. Marine Pollution Bulletin 46, 542–551.Google Scholar
Pagliara, P., Bouillon, J. and Boero, F. (2000) Photosynthetic planulae and planktonic hydroids: contrasting strategies of propagule survival. In Mills, C.E. et al. . (eds) Trends in hydrozoan biology. Vol. IV. Scientia Marina 64, 173–178.Google Scholar
Por, F.D. (1978) Lessepsian migration. The influx of Red Sea biota into the Mediterranean by way of the Suez Canal. Ecological Studies 23, i–x, 1–228.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Purcell, J.E. (1989) Predation of fish larvae and eggs by the hydromedusa Aequorea victoria at a herring spawning ground in British Columbia. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 46, 1415–1427.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Purcell, J.E. (1990) Soft-bodied zooplankton predators and competitors of larval herring (Clupea harengus pallasi) at herring spawning grounds in British Columbia (Canada). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 47, 505–515.Google Scholar
Purcell, J.E. (1991a) Predation by Aequorea victoria on other species of potentially competing pelagic hydrozoans. Marine Ecology Progress Series 72, 255–260.Google Scholar
Purcell, J.E. (1991b) A review of cnidarians and ctenophores feeding on competitors in the plankton. In Williams, R.B. et al. . (eds) Coelenterate biology: recent research on Cnidaria and Ctenophora. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Coelenterate Biology, 1989. Hydrobiologia 216–217, 335–342.Google Scholar
Purcell, J.E. (1997) Pelagic cnidarians and ctenophores as predators: selective predation, feeding rates, and effects on prey populations. Annales de l'Institut Oceanographique 73, 125–137.Google Scholar
Purcell, J.E. (2003) Predation on zooplankton by large jellyfish, Aurelia labiata, Cyanea capillata and Aequorea aequorea, in Prince William Sound, Alaska. Marine Ecology Progress Series 246, 137–152.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Purcell, J.E. (2005) Climate effects on formation of jellyfish and ctenophore blooms: a review. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 85, 461–476.Google Scholar
Purcell, J.E. and Arai, M.N. (2001) Interactions of pelagic cnidarians and ctenophores with fish: a review. Hydrobiologia 451, 27–44.Google Scholar
Purcell, J.E., Nemazie, D.A., Dorsey, S.E., Houde, E.D. and Gamble, J.C. (1994) Predation mortality of bay anchovy Anchoa mitchilli eggs and larvae due to scyphomedusae and ctenophores in Chesapeake Bay. Marine Ecology Progress Series 114, 47–58.Google Scholar
Purcell, J.E., Siferd, T.D. and Marliave, J.B. (1987) Vulnerability of larval herring (Clupea harengus pallasi) to capture by the jellyfish Aequorea victoria. Marine Biology (Berlin) 94, 157–162.Google Scholar
Ruiz, G.M. and Carlton, J.T. (2003) Invasive species: vectors and management strategies. Washington: Island Press.Google Scholar
Ruiz, G.M., Carlton, J.T., Grosholtz, E.D. and Hines, A.H. (1997) Global invasions of marine and estuarine habitats by non-indigenous species: mechanisms, extent and consequences. American Zoologist 37, 621–632.Google Scholar
Schierwater, B. and Hadrys, H. (1998) Environmental factors and metagenesis in the hydroid Eleutheria dichotoma. Invertebrate Reproduction and Development 34, 139–148.Google Scholar
Spanier, E. and Galil, B.S. (1991) Lessepsian migration: a continuous biogeographical process. Endeavour 15, 102–106.Google Scholar
Zenetos, A., Çinar, M.E., Pancucci–Papadopoulou, M.A., Harmelin, J.G., Furnari, G., Andaloro, F., Bellou, N., Streftaris, N. and Zibrowius, H. (2005) Annotated list of marine alien species in the Mediterranean with records of the worst invasive species. Mediterranean Marine Science 6, 63–118.Google Scholar