Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Corals as substrate for tube-dwelling anemones

  • Short Communication
  • Published:
Marine Biodiversity Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

This study is about seven individuals of Botrucnidifer norvegicus Carlgren, 1912 (Anthozoa, Ceriantharia) that were attached to a stony deep-sea coral, Desmophyllum pertusum Linnaeus, 1758 (Anthozoa, Scleractinia). They were collected during surveys at Agdenes, Trondheimsfjord. We included photographs of live specimens, discussed the implications of this association, and described the species interaction and the behavior of the ceriantharian, which we discussed in light of previously published information.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Fig. 1

References

  • Addamo AM, Vertino A, Stolarski J, García-Jiménez R, Taviani M, Machordom A (2016) Merging scleractinian genera: the overwhelming genetic similarity between solitary Desmophyllum and colonial Lophelia. BMC Evol Biol 16:108. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-016-0654-8

    Article  CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Andrady AL (2011) Microplastics in the marine environment. Mar Pollut Bull 62:1596–1605. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2011.05.030

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Bakken T, Hårsaker K, Daverdin M (2020) Marine invertebrate collection NTNU University Museum. Version 1.544. NTNU University Museum. Accessed via GBIF.org on 2020-07-05. https://doi.org/10.15468/ddbs14

  • Carlgren O (1912) Ceriantharia. Danish Ingolf-exped 5:1–79

    Google Scholar 

  • Carlgren O (1923) Ceriantharia und Zoantharia der Deutschen Tiefsee-expedition. Deutsche Tiefsee-expedition 1898–1899 19: 243–337

  • Carlgren O (1931) On some Ceriantharia. Ark Zool 23A:1–10

    Google Scholar 

  • Carlgren O (1951) The actiniarian fauna of the Gulf of California. Proc US Natl Mus 101:415–449

    Google Scholar 

  • Ceriello H, Lopes CSS, Dias GM, Stampar SN (2019) A different manner to share a house: is a colonial species possible in Ceriantharia (Cnidaria; Anthozoa)? Mar Biodivers 49:2017–2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-019-00942-2

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ceriello H, Lopes CSS, Reimer JD, Bakken T, Fukuda MV, Cunha CM, Stampar SN (2020) Knock knock, who’s there?: marine invertebrates in tubes of Ceriantharia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa). Biodivers Data J 8:e47019. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.8.e47019

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Collie JS, Hall SJ, Kaiser MJ, Poiner IR (2000) A quantitative analysis of fishing impacts on shelf-sea benthos. J Anim Ecol 69:785–798. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2656.2000.00434.x

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Danielssen DC (1890) Actinida. In: den Norske Nordhavs-expedition. Zoologi Grøndahl and Søn, Christiania, pp 1876–1878

    Google Scholar 

  • de Lamarck J-BM (1816) Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres, Tome second. Verdière, Paris

    Google Scholar 

  • den Hartog JC (1977) Descriptions of two new Ceriantharia from the Caribbean region, Pachycerianthus curancaoensis n. sp. and Arachnanthus nocturnus n. sp. with a discussion of the cnidom and of the classification of the Ceriantharia. Zool Meded 51:211–242

    Google Scholar 

  • Ehrenberg CG (1834) Beiträge zur physiologischen Kenntniss der Corallenthiere im allgemeinen, und besonders des Rothen Meeres, nebst einem Versuche zur physiologischen Systematik derselben. Abh K Akad Wissensch Berlin 1:225–380

    Google Scholar 

  • Fautin DG, Hickman CP, Daly M, Molodtsova T (2007) Shallow-water sea anemones (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Actiniaria) and tube anemones (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Ceriantharia) of the Galápagos Islands. Pac Sci 61:549–573. https://doi.org/10.2984/1534-6188(2007)61[549:SSACAA]2.0.CO;2

  • Fosså JH, Mortensen PB, Furevik DM (2002) The deep-water coral Lophelia pertusa in Norwegian waters: distribution and fishery impacts. Hydrobiologia 471:1–12. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1016504430684

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Frey RW (1970) The lebensspuren of some common marine invertebrates near Beaufort. North Carolina II Anemone Burrows J Paleontol:44308–44331

  • Hall-Spencer J, Allain V, Fosså JH (2002) Trawling damage to Northeast Atlantic ancient coral reefs. Proc R Soc Lond [Biol] 269:507–511. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2001.1910

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hoeksema BW (2017) The hidden biodiversity of tropical coral reefs. Biodiversity 18:8–12. https://doi.org/10.1080/14888386.2017.1307787

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hyman LH (1940) The invertebrates: Protozoa through Ctenophora. McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York

    Google Scholar 

  • Jensen P (1992) Cerianthus vogti Danielssen, 1890 (Anthozoa: Ceriantharia). A species inhabiting an extended tube system deeply buried in deep-sea sediments off Norway Sarsia 77:75–80. https://doi.org/10.1080/00364827.1992.10413494

  • Jensen A, Frederiksen R (1992) The fauna associated with the bank-forming deepwater coral Lophelia pertusa (Scleractinaria) on the Faroe shelf. Sarsia 77:53–69. https://doi.org/10.1080/00364827.1992.10413492

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Leloup E (1932) Cerianthaires de l’Ocean Atlantique. Bulletin du Musée Royal d’Histoire Naturelle de Belgique 8:1–19

    Google Scholar 

  • Linnaeus C (1758) Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis, 10th edn. Laurentius Salvius, Holmiae

    Google Scholar 

  • Lopes CSS, Ceriello H, Morandini AC, Stampar SN (2019) Revision of the genus Ceriantheomorphe (Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Ceriantharia) with description of a new species from the Gulf of Mexico and northwestern Atlantic. ZooKeys 874:127–148. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.874.35835

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • McMurrich JP (1910) Actiniaria of the Siboga expedition. Part I. Ceriantharia Siboga-Exp Monogr 10:1–48

    Google Scholar 

  • Mejia ACF, Molodtsova T, Östman C, Bavestrello G, Rouse GW (2019) Molecular phylogeny of Ceriantharia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) reveals non-monophyly of traditionally accepted families. Zool J Linnean Soc zlz:158. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz158

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Milne Edwards H (1857) Histoire naturelle des coralliaires ou polypes proprement dits. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris

  • Molodtsova TN (2001) Cerianthids (Anthozoa, Cnidaria) from Bengual upwelling region. 3. Botrucnidifer shtockmani. Zool Zhurnal 80:1027–1037

    Google Scholar 

  • Molodtsova TN (2004a) On the taxonomy and presumable evolutionary pathways of planktonic larvae of Ceriantharia (Anthozoa, Cnidaria). Hydrobiologia 530(531):261–266. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2762-8_30

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Molodtsova TN (2004b) Ceriantharia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) from the Faroe Islands. Fróðskaparrit 51:292–297

    Google Scholar 

  • Nelson DS, McManus J, Richmond RH, King DB Jr, Gailani JZ, Lackey TC, Bryant D (2016) Predicting dredging-associated effects to coral reefs in Apra Harbor, Guam – part 2: potential coral effects. J Environ Manag 168:111–122. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2015.10.025

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Rabalais NN, Harper DE Jr, Turner RE (2001) Responses of nekton and demersal and benthic fauna to decreasing oxygen concentrations. In: Rabalais N, Turner R (eds) Coastal hypoxia: consequences for living resources and ecosystems. American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, pp 115–128

    Google Scholar 

  • Silbiger NJ, Nelson CE, Remple K, Sevilla JK, Quinlan ZA, Putnam HM, Fox MD, Donahue MJ (2018) Nutrient pollution disrupts key ecosystem functions on coral reefs. Proc R Soc B 285:20172718. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.2718

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Stampar S, Beneti J, Acuña F, Morandini A (2015a) Ultrastructure and tube formation in Ceriantharia (Cnidaria, Anthozoa). Zool Anz 254:67–71. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcz.2014.11.004

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Stampar SN, Morandini AC, Branco LC, Silveira FL, Migotto AE (2015b) Drifting in the oceans: Isarachnanthus nocturnus (Cnidaria, Ceriantharia, Arachnactidae), an anthozoan with an extended planktonic stage. Mar Biol 162:2161–2169. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-015-2747-0

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Stampar SN, Maronna MM, Reimer JD, Beneti JS, Morandini AC (2016) Ceriantharia in current systematics: life cycles, morphology and genetics. In: Goffredo S, Dubinsky Z (eds) The Cnidaria, past, present and future: the world of medusa and her sisters. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 61–72. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31305-4_5

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  • Stampar SN, González-Muñoz R, Morandini AC (2017) Botruanthus mexicanus (Cnidaria: Ceriantharia), a new species of tube-dwelling anemone from the Gulf of Mexico. Mar Biodivers 47:113–118. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-016-0521-2

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Stampar SN, Broe MB, Macrander J, Reitzel AM, Brugler MR, Daly M (2019) Linear mitochondrial genome in Anthozoa (Cnidaria): a case study in Ceriantharia. Sci Rep 9:6094. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-42621-z

    Article  CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Stampar SN, Reimer JD, Maronna MM, Lopes CSS, Ceriello H, Santos TB, Acuña FH, Morandini AC (2020) Ceriantharia (Cnidaria) of the world: an annotated catalogue and key to species. ZooKeys 952:1–63. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.952.50617

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Stella JS, Pratchett MS, Hutchings PA, Jones GP (2011) Coral-associated invertebrates: diversity, ecology importance and vulnerability to disturbance. Oceanogr Mar Biol Annu Rev 49:43–104

    Google Scholar 

  • Tiffon Y (1987) Ordre des Cérianthaires. In: Grassé P (ed) Traité de zoologie: anatomie, systematique, biologie – Cnidaires/Anthozoaires. Masson, Paris, pp 210–256

    Google Scholar 

  • Torrey HB, Kleeberger FL (1909) Contributions from the laboratory of the marine biological association of San Diego. XXVII. Three species of Cerianthus from southern California. Univ Calif Publ Zool 6:115–125

    Google Scholar 

  • van Beneden E (1897) Les Anthozoaires de la Plankton-expedition. Ergebnisse der Plankton-Expedition der Humboldt-Stiftung 2:1–222

    Google Scholar 

  • van Beneden E (1923) Travaux posthumes d’Edouard van Beneden sur les Cérianthaires. In: Arch Biol (hors serie) 153 p. (in French)

    Google Scholar 

  • van Beneden E (1924) Travaux posthumes d’Edouard van Beneden sur les Cérianthaires collationnés par Paul Cerfontaine. In: Arch Biol (hors serie), pp 1–242

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Acknowledgments

We are grateful to captain Arve Knudsen and his crew onboard the RV Gunnerus during sampling, Dag Altin for access to equipment, Nathalie Skahjem for assisting with photographing microscope images and video, and Gustavo R. Brito for helping with geographic coordinate system. We are also deeply indebted to Dr. Bert W. Hoeksema and the three anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments and corrections, which certainly helped improving this manuscript.

Funding

This study was financed by the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico – Brasil (CNPq) – Finance Code 141329/2020-3. GGC was supported by São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) 2019/03789-0. SNS was supported by CNPq (PROTAX) 440539/2015-3, 301293/2019-8 (Research Productivity Scholarship), and FAPESP 2015/24408-4, 2016/50389-0, 2019/03552-0.

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Laboratório de Evolução e Diversidade Aquática – LEDA, UNESP - Universidade Estadual Paulista, FCL/Assis, Assis, SP, Brazil

    Hellen Ceriello, Gabriel G. Costa & Sérgio N. Stampar

  2. Departamento de Zoologia, UNESP - Universidade Estadual Paulista, Instituto de Biociências, Botucatu, SP, Brazil

    Hellen Ceriello & Sérgio N. Stampar

  3. NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, University Museum, Trondheim, Norway

    Torkild Bakken

Authors
  1. Hellen Ceriello
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Gabriel G. Costa
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Torkild Bakken
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. Sérgio N. Stampar
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Hellen Ceriello.

Ethics declarations

Conflict of interest

The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

Ethical approval

All applicable international, national, and/or institutional guidelines for animal testing, animal care, and use of animals were followed by the authors.

Sampling and field studies

All necessary permits for sampling and observational field studies have been obtained from the competent authorities by the authors.

Data availability

Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analyzed during the current study.

Author contribution

The study was conceived by HC and SNS. Samples were obtained by TB. HC and SNS identified the specimens. HC generated the first draft of the manuscript in which GGC, TB, and SNS added significant text improvements. All authors read, commented on, and approved the final manuscript.

Additional information

Communicated by B. W. Hoeksema

Publisher’s note

Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.

Electronic supplementary material

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Ceriello, H., Costa, G.G., Bakken, T. et al. Corals as substrate for tube-dwelling anemones. Mar. Biodivers. 50, 89 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-020-01116-1

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Revised:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-020-01116-1

Keywords

Search

Navigation