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A case of co-occurrence between Sclerolinum pogonophoran (Siboglinidae: Annelida) and Xylophaga (Bivalvia) from a north-east Atlantic wood-fall

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2010

Christoffer Schander ,
Hans Tore Rapp ,
Kenneth M. Halanych ,
Jon Anders Kongsrud  and
Jon-Arne Sneli
Christoffer Schander*
Affiliation:
University of Bergen, Department of Biology, PO Box 7800, NO-5020 Bergen, Norway Centre for GeoBiology, Allégaten 41, NO-5007 Bergen, Norway
Hans Tore Rapp
Affiliation:
University of Bergen, Department of Biology, PO Box 7800, NO-5020 Bergen, Norway Centre for GeoBiology, Allégaten 41, NO-5007 Bergen, Norway
Kenneth M. Halanych
Affiliation:
Life Science Building, Rouse 101, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, USA
Jon Anders Kongsrud
Affiliation:
University of Bergen, Bergen Museum, Natural History Collections, NO-5020 Bergen, Norway
Jon-Arne Sneli
Affiliation:
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Department of Biology/Trondheim Biological Station, NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: C. Schander, University of Bergen, Department of Biology, PO Box 7800, NO-5020 Bergen, Norway email: christoffer.schander@bio.uib.no
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Abstract

During a 2005 scientific cruise in Storfjord in Møre, Norway, a previously undescribed co-occurrence between the wood boring bivalve Xylophaga dorsalis and the pogonophoran annelid (Sibglinidae) Sclerolinum brattstromi was discovered. The pogonophoran was lining burrows made by the bivalve, and surrounded it in a glomerulus-like structure. Based on observations, we hypothesize that the deep burrows of X. doralis produce an environment favourable to S. brattstromi. Interestingly, both bivalve and annelid are dependent upon symbiotic microorganisms, and thus raising the possibility that the relationship between these species is driven by their bacterial symbionts, or their utilization of the common redox boundary.

Keywords

PogonophoraXylophagaSclerolinumreducing habitatFjordsdeep-seaSiboglinidae
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Research Article
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Marine Biodiversity Records , Volume 3 , June 2010 , e43
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2010

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