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Community interactions and zoogeography of the Indian Ocean Candaciidae (Copepoda: Calanoida)

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Eighteen species of Candaciidae have been identified from collections made at 339 stations in the Indian Ocean. Most species are zonally distributed; however, on the eastern and western sides of the Indian Ocean, species ranges are extended north or south by boundary currents. Factor analysis was used to cluster phenotypically similar species based on 130 characters taken from the maxilla (a feeding appendage), the first swimming foot, and the fifth foot (a secondary sexual structure). Four morphological clusters were extracted. Clusterings based on separate factor analyses limited to characters from feeding or from sexually adapted appendages are in substantial agreement with the clusters based on composite morphology. Two geographically recurrent groups of species were also identified, one from equatorial waters, one from the central gyre. Each recurrent group is composed of species exceptionally different in body size and belonging to different morphological clusters. Niches of the species are compared using Hutchinson's multidimensional hypervolume as a model. An attempt is made to describe the niche of each species in terms of environmental variables measured at stations where the species was abundant. Environmental variables (dimensions) included in this study are space, time, temperature, food, oxygen and salinity. Mean niche adaptations of most of the species are separable from congeners along at least one niche dimension. It is proposed that community relationships among the Candaciidae developed to prevent both gamete loss and to avoid trophic competition. It is postulated that newly evolving species underwent contemporaneous displacement of both secondary sexual and trophic characters as a condition for sympatry, or diverged in their physiological adaptations to escape sympatric interference.

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Communicated by M.R. Tripp, Newark

Contribution No. 3686 of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. This research was supported by NSF Grants GB 27405 and GA 43126 and is based on a doctoral dissertation submitted to the Curriculum in Marine Sciences of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Lawson, T.J. Community interactions and zoogeography of the Indian Ocean Candaciidae (Copepoda: Calanoida). Mar. Biol. 43, 71–92 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00392573

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