Re-appearance of the gregarious gastropod Dendropoma anguliferum (Vermetidae) on abrasion platforms in the Carmel coast (Northern Israel)

PDF SUPPL FILE
Published: Jun 12, 2024
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/mms.36181
Keywords:
Dendropoma Abrasion platform Mediterranean Sea Israel
ORIT BARNEAH
Avram and Stella Goldstein-Goren Department of Biotechnology Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel
MICHAL LIDOR-NAIM
Avram and Stella Goldstein-Goren Department of Biotechnology Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel
RAMI TSADOK
Morris Kahn Marine Research Station, University of Haifa, Haifa 3780400, Israel & Department of Marine Biology, Leon H. Charney School of Marine Sciences, University of Haifa, Haifa 3498838, Israel
RUTH YAHEL
Science Department, Israel Nature and Parks Authority, 3 Am Ve’Olamo Street, Jerusalem 95463, Israel
ARIEL KUSHMARO
Avram and Stella Goldstein-Goren Department of Biotechnology Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel; The Ilse Katz Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel; School of Sustainability and Climate Change, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel
Abstract

After three decades of sharp decline in the Dendropoma populations in Israel and genuine concern for their extinction, we affirm the re-appearance of the gregarious gastropod Dendropoma anguliferum on abrasion platforms in the Carmel coast (Northern Israel). A visual survey conducted during December 2020 and February 2021 along the rims of abrasion platforms in the Carmel coast area revealed 195 living clusters of live D. anguliferum. DNA sequences from tissue samples unambiguously supported the identity of our material as the Levantine Sea member D. anguliferum of the Dendropoma petraeum species complex, with 99- 100% identity to sequences obtained from D. anguliferum from Southern Lebanon.

Article Details
  • Section
  • Short Communication

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

  1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
  2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g. post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
  3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (preferably in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).
Downloads
Download data is not yet available.
References
Badreddine, A., Milazzo, M., Abboud-Abi Saab, M., Bitar, G., Mangialajo, L., 2019. Threatened biogenic formations of the Mediterranean: Current status and assessment of the vermetid reefs along the Lebanese coastline (Levant basin). Ocean and Coastal management, 169, 137-146.
Ben-Eliahu, M.N., Safriel, U.N., 1982. A comparison between species diversities of polychaetes from tropical and temperate structurally similar rocky intertidal habitats. Journal of Biogeography, 9, 371-390.
Brokovich, E., Abelson, A., Ariel, A., Ben-Yosef, D., Goren, M. et al., 2015. Abrasion platforms in Israel: Status, environmental significance and rehabilitation possibilities before they disappear. Experts’ opinion, The Israel Society of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, 32 p.
Calvo, M., Templado, J., Penchaszadeh, P.E., 1998. Reproductive biology of the gregarious Mediterranean vermetid gastropod Dendropoma petraeum. Journal of the Marine Biological Assication of the United Kingdom, 78, 525-549.
Calvo, M., Templado, J., Oliverio, M., Machordom, A., 2009. Hidden Mediterranean biodiversity: molecular evidence for a cryptic species complex within the reef building vermetid gastropod Dendropoma petraeum (Mollusca: Caenogastropoda). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 96, 898-912.
Calvo, M., Alda, F., Oliverio, M., Templado, J., Machordom, A., 2015. Surviving the Messinian Salinity Crisis? Divergence patterns in the genus Dendropoma (Gastropoda: Vermetidae) in the Mediterranean Sea. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 91, 17-26.
Chemello, R., Silenzi, S., 2011. Vermetid reefs in the Mediterranean Sea as archives of sea-level and surface temperature changes. Chemistry and Ecology, 27 (2), 121-127.
Ciccarelli, F.D., Doerks, T., von Mering, C., Creevey, C.J., Snel, B. et al., 2006. Toward automatic reconstruction of a highly resolved tree of life. Science, 311 (5765), 1283-1287.
Di Franco, A., Graziano, M., Franzitta, G., Felline, S., Chemello, R. et al., 2011. Do small marinas drive habitat specific impacts? A case study from Mediterranean Sea. Marine pollution Bulletin, 62, 926-933.
Fine, M., Tsadok, R., Meron, D., Cohen, S., Milazzo, M., 2017. Environmental sensitivity of Neogoniolithon brassica-florida associated with vermetid reefs in the Mediterranean Sea. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 74 (4), 1074-1082.
Folmer, O., Black, M., Hoeh, W., Lutz, R., Vrijenhoek, R., 1994. DNA primers for amplification of mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I from diverse metazoan invertebrates. Molecular Marine Biology and Biotechnology, 3, 294-299.
Franzitta, G., Marrone, A., Gauci, A., Galdies, J., Mangano, M.C. et al., 2022. Bridging the knowledge gap on the distribution and typology of vermetid bioconstructions along Maltese coastline: an updated assessment. Mediterranean Marine Science, 23 (4), 817-826.
Fuchs, Th., 1878. Die geologische Beschaffenheit der Landenge von Suez. Denkschriften der Kaiserkichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe, 38 (2), 25-42, pls. 1-3.
Galil, B.S., 2013. Going going gone: the loss of a reef building gastropod (Mollusca: Caenogastropoda: Vermetidae) in the southeast Mediterranean Sea. Zoology in the Middle East, 59, 179-182.
Kumar, S., Stecher, G., Li, M., Knyaz, C., Tamura, K., 2018. MEGA X: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis across Computing Platforms. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 35 (6), 1547-49.
La Marca, E.C., Catania, V., Quatrini, P., Milazzo, M., Chemello, R., 2018. Settlement performance of the Mediterranean reef-builders Dendropoma cristatum (Biondi 1859) in response to natural bacterial films. Marine Environmental Reasearch, 137, 149-157.
Lipkin, Y., Safriel, U., 1971. Intertidal zonation on rocky shores at Mikhmoret (Mediterranean, Israel). Journal of Ecology, 59, 1-30.
Lydeard, C., Mulvey, M., Davis, G.M., 1996. Molecular systematics and evolution of reproductive traits of North American freshwater unionacean mussels (Mollusca: Bivalvia) as inferred from 16S rRNA gene sequences. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 351, 1593-1603.
Machordom, A., Araujo, R., Erpenbeck, D., Ramos, M.A., 2003. Phylogeography and Conservation Genetics of Endangered European Margaritiferidae (Bivalvia: Unionoidea). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 78 (2), 235-252.
Milazzo, M., Quattrocchi, F., Graziano, M., Badalamenti, F., Sará, G. et al., 2009. Invasive mussels directly threaten intertidal vermetid reef: some evidence from a Sicilian MPA. In: Book of Abstracts. International InterMed Workshop; Mar 9-10; Palermo; 2009.
Milazzo, M., Fine, M., La Marca, E.C., Alessi, C., Chemello, R., 2016. Drawing the line at neglected marine ecosystems: Ecology of vermetid reefs in a changing ocean Pp. 1-23 in Marine Animal Forests. S. Rossi (Ed.). Springer Interna tional Publishing, Switzerland.
Palumbi, S., Martin, A., Romano, S., McMillan, W.O., Stice, L. et al., 2002. The simple fool’s guide to PCR, version 2.0. Department of Zoology and Kewalo Marine Laboratory, University of Hawaii, Honolulu. 45 pp.
Por, F.D., 1978. Lessepsian migration. The influx of Red Sea biota into the Mediterranean by way of Suez Canal. Springer- Verlag Berlin • Heidelberg, 228 pp.
Rilov, G., 2016. Multi-species collapses at the warm edge of a warming sea. Scientific Reports, 6, 36897.
Rilov, G., 2017. Israel National Monitoring Plan for 2016. Monitoring of biological assemblages of the coastal rocky habitat. ILOR Report H48b/2017 (in Hebrew).
Rilov, G., Benayahu, Y., Gasith, A., 2001. A low abundance and skewed population structure of the whelk Stramonita haemastoma along the Israeli Mediterranean coast. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 218, 189-202.
Rilov, G., Benayahu, Y., Gasith, A., 2004. A prolonged lag in population outbreak of an invasive mussel: a shifting-habitat model. Biological Invasions, 6, 347-364.
Rilov, G., Peleg, O., Guy-Haim, T., Yeruham, E., 2020. Community dynamics and ecological shifts on Mediterranean vermetid reefs. Marine Environmental Research, 160, 105045.
Safriel, U.N., 1966. Recent Vermetid formation on the Mediterranean shore of Israel. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, 37, 27-34.
Templado, J., Richter, A., Calvo, M., 2016. Reef building Mediterranean vermetid gastropods: Disentangling the Dendropoma petraeum species complex. Mediterranean Marine Science, 17 (1), 13-31.
Usvyatsov, S., Galil, B.S., 2012. Comparison of reproductive characteristics among populations of Dendropoma petraeum (Mollusca: Caenogastropoda). An endemic Mediterranean reef-building gastropod. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 92, 163-170.
Most read articles by the same author(s)