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Genetic identity of two physonect siphonophores from Southern Ocean waters – the enigmatic taxon Mica micula and Pyrostephos vanhoeffeni

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 April 2018

Anna Panasiuk ,
Anna Jażdżewska ,
Angelika Słomska ,
Marta Irzycka  and
Justyna Wawrzynek
Anna Panasiuk*
Affiliation:
Department of Marine Plankton Research, University of Gdansk, Faculty of Oceanography and Geography, Institute of Oceanography, Av. J.M. Piłsudskiego 46, 81-378 Gdynia, Poland
Anna Jażdżewska
Affiliation:
Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology, University of Lodz, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, 12/16 Banacha St., 90-237 Łódź, Poland
Angelika Słomska
Affiliation:
Department of Marine Plankton Research, University of Gdansk, Faculty of Oceanography and Geography, Institute of Oceanography, Av. J.M. Piłsudskiego 46, 81-378 Gdynia, Poland
Marta Irzycka
Affiliation:
Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology, University of Lodz, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, 12/16 Banacha St., 90-237 Łódź, Poland
Justyna Wawrzynek
Affiliation:
Department of Marine Plankton Research, University of Gdansk, Faculty of Oceanography and Geography, Institute of Oceanography, Av. J.M. Piłsudskiego 46, 81-378 Gdynia, Poland
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: Anna Panasiuk, Department of Marine Plankton Research, University of Gdansk, Faculty of Oceanography and Geography, Institute of Oceanography, Av. J.M. Piłsudskiego 46, 81-378 Gdynia, Poland email: oceapc@ug.edu.pl
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Abstract

Based on some coincident morphological characters and distribution, it was believed for a long time that Mica micula was the post-larval stage of a species of Bargmannia, a genus having a very wide geographic distribution. Recent studies, however, have shown that it is much more likely to be the post-larval form of the physonect Pyrostephos vanhoeffeni, which is very common in both Antarctic and sub-Antarctic waters. Until now, molecular evidence to support this theory has been lacking. In the present study 34 nectophores of P. vanhoeffeni and four colonies of M. micula collected from three areas in the Southern Ocean were analysed for the 16S rRNA gene. Five haplotypes were identified, which formed two clearly distinct lineages. Three haplotypes were found exclusively in Admiralty Bay and were shared between individuals of both studied taxa, confirming that M. micula is indeed the post-larval stage of P. vanhoeffeni. Two additional haplotypes were found in one open ocean locality and in Admiralty Bay.

Keywords

Siphonophora (Pyrostephos vanhoeffeni, Mica micula)Southern Oceangenetic identity
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Research Article
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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 99 , Issue 2 , March 2019 , pp. 303 - 310
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2018 

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