Skip to main content

Advertisement

SpringerLink
Log in

Distribution and ecology of the tube-dweller Ampelisca ledoyeri (Amphipoda: Ampeliscidae) associated with the hydrothermal field off Panarea Island (Tyrrhenian Sea, Mediterranean)

  • Original Paper
  • Published:
Marine Biodiversity Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

The distribution and ecology of the Ampelisca ledoyeri population at the hydrothermal field off Panarea Island, Aeolian Archipelago (NE Sicily), were investigated during four cruises in June and November 2010, and June 2011, 2013. Extensive patches of emerging tubes were observed during ROV dives and subsequently grab sampled. The tubes were inhabited by the amphipod A. ledoyeri and were located close to the hydrothermal structures, with average densities ranging from 14.5 to 108.9 tubes/m2. A. ledoyeri dominated the benthic community in terms of abundance (44.4 %), monopolizing the thin layer of fine sediment covering a Fe-rich crustose substratum from 80 to 120 m depth. The evidenced bathymetric gradient, with decreasing numbers of individuals from 80–85 m (184 ± 266.01 individuals) to 120 m (6.95 ± 16.08 individuals), respectively, corresponded to Fe-rich sediments due to geothermal lower energy and higher energy hydrothermal crusts and chimneys. The gut contents of A. ledoyeri, consisting of a fine, rusty matter similar to the seep-surface deposits, suggested that such a deposit feeder might play a key role in the hydrothermal food web, both in terms of secondary production and “detrital” organic matter stored in the sediment as mucus tubes.

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
Fig. 2
Fig. 3
Fig. 4

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  • Anderson MJ, Gorley RN, Clarke KR (2008) PERMANOVA + for PRIMER: guide to software and statistical methods. PRIMER-E, Plymouth

    Google Scholar 

  • Anzidei M, Esposito A, Bortoluzzi G, De Giosa F (2005) The high resolution bathymetric map of the exhalative area of Panarea (Aeolian Islands, Italy). Ann Geophys 48(6):899–921

    Google Scholar 

  • Aslan-Cihangir H, Pancucci-Papadopoulou MA (2011) Spatial and temporal variation of soft-bottom peracarid (Crustacea: Peracarida) infauna in the Canakkale Strait (Turkey). Medit Mar Sci 12(1):153–182

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Barnard JL (1960) New bathyal and sublittoral ampeliscid amphipods from California, with an illustrated key to Ampelisca. Pac Nat 1(16):1–36

    Google Scholar 

  • Barnard JL (1969) The families and genera of marine gammaridean Amphipoda. U S Nat Mus Bull 271:1–535

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Barnard JL, Karaman G (1991) The families and genera of marine gammaridean Amphipoda (except marine gammaroids). Rec Aust Mus 13(supplements 1 and 2):1–866

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Bellan-Santini D, Dauvin JC (1988) Elements de synthèse sur les Ampelisca du nord-est Atlantique. Crustaceana Suppl 13:20–60

    Google Scholar 

  • Bellan-Santini D, Dauvin JC (1989) Distribution verticale et répartition biogéographique de Crustacés holobenthiques filtreurs: exemple des Amphipodes du genre Ampelisca, groupe zoologique à forte spéciation. Bull Soc Geol Fr 5:561–568

    Google Scholar 

  • Bellan-Santini D, Thurston MH (1996) Amphipoda of the hydrothermal vents along the mid-Atlantic Ridge. J Nat Hist 30:685–702

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Buchanan JB, Kain JM (1971) Measurement of the physical and chemical environment. In: Holmes NA, MacIntyre AD (eds) Methods for the study of Marine Benthos. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford, p 387

    Google Scholar 

  • Caracausi A, Ditta M, Italiano F, Longo M, Nuccio PM, Paonita A (2005) Massive submarine gas output during the volcanic unrest off Panarea Island (Aeolian Arc, Italy): interferences for explosive conditions. Geochem J 39:459–467

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Clarke KR, Warwick RM (2001) Change in marine communities: an approach to statistical analysis and interpretation, 2nd edn. PRIMER-E, Plymouth

    Google Scholar 

  • Cordes EE, Hourdez S, Predmore BL, Redding ML, Fisher CR (2005) Succession of hydrocarbon seep communities associated with the long-lived foundation species Lamellibrachia luymesi. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 305:17–29

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Dauvin JC, Bellan-Santini D (1988) Illustrated key to Ampelisca species from the north-eastern Atlantic. J Mar Biol Assoc UK 68:659–676

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Dauvin JC, Bellan-Santini D (1996) Ampeliscidae (Amphipoda) from the bay of Biscay. J Crustac Biol 16(1):149–168

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Dauvin JC, Alizier S, Weppe A, Guðmundsson G (2012) Diversity and zoogeography of Icelandic deep-sea Ampeliscidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda). Deep-Sea Res I 68:12–23

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • De Biasi AM, Aliani S (2003) Shallow-water hydrothermal vents in the Mediterranean sea: stepping stones for Lessepsian migration? Hydrobiologia 503:37–44

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Decembrini F, Caroppo C, Azzaro A (2009) Size structure and production of phytoplankton community and carbon pathways channelling in the Southern Tyrrhenian Sea (Western Mediterranean). Deep-Sea Res II 56:687–699

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Dekov VM, Kamenov GD, Abrasheva MD, Capaccioni B, Munnik F (2013) Mineralogical and geochemical investigation of seafloor massive sulfides from Panarea Platform (Aeolian Arc, Tyrrhenian Sea). Chem Geol 335:136–148

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Diaz RJ, Rhoads DC, Blake JA, Kropp RK, Keay KE (2008) Long-term trends of benthic habitats related to reduction in wastewater discharge to Boston harbor. Estuar Coasts 31:1184–1197

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Dickinson JJ (1982) The systematic and distributional ecology of the family Ampeliscidae (Amphipoda: Gammaridea) in the northeastern Pacific region, I. The genus Ampelisca. Nat Mus Nat Sci (Ottawa) Publ Biol Oceanogr 10:1–39

    Google Scholar 

  • Dickinson JJ (1983) The systematic and distributional ecology of the superfamily Ampeliscoidea (Amphipoda: Gammaridea) in the northeastern Pacific Region, II. The genera Byblis and Haploops. Nat Mus Nat Sci (Ottawa) Publ Biol Oceanogr 1:1–38

    Google Scholar 

  • Gamberi F, Marani M, Savelli C (1997) Tectonic, volcanic and hydrothermal features of a submarine portion of the Aeolian arc (Tyrrhenian Sea). Mar Geol 140:167–181

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Gamberi F, Marani M, Parr JM, Binns RA (1999) Sub-seafloor mineralisation at the Panarea shallow-water platform, Aeolian volcanic arc, Italy. In: Stanley CJ et al (eds) Mineral deposits, processes to processing. Balkema, Rotterdam, pp 499–502

    Google Scholar 

  • Grebmeier JM, McRoy CP (1989) Pelagic-benthic coupling on the shelf of the northern Bering and Chukchi Seas. 111. Benthic food supply and carbon cycling. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 53:79–91

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Gugliandolo C, Italiano F, Maugeri T (2006) The submarine hydrothermal system of Panarea (Southern Italy): biogeochemical processes at the thermal fluids-sea bottom interface. Ann Geophys 49(2/3):783–792

    Google Scholar 

  • Hanert HH (1981) Bakterielle und chemische Eisen(II)-oxidation auf Palaea Kameni-stereoscan, elektronenestrahl-mikroanalyse (FeKa) und photometrie von in situ-experimenten. In: Puchelt ESH (ed) Genesis of marine iron sediments from Santorini, Greece. Springer, Berlin

    Google Scholar 

  • Kamenev GM, Fadeev VI, Selin NI, Tarasov VG (1993) Composition and distribution of macro- and meiobenthos around sublittoral hydrothermal vents in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. N Z J Mar Freshw Res 27:407–418

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • King RA (2009) Ampeliscidae. Zootaxa 2260:132–142

    Google Scholar 

  • Laughlin JD (1981) Gut analysis of polychaetes and amphipods. Coastal Water Research Project Annual Report for the Year Ended, 59

  • Marani M, Gamberi F, Savelli C (1997) Shallow-water polymetallic sulphide deposits in the Aeolian island arc. Geology 25(9):815–818

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Martin JW, France SC, Van Dover CL (1993) Halice hesmonectes, a new species of pardaliscid amphipod (Crustacea, Peracarida) from hydrothermal vents in the eastern Pacific. Can J Zool 71:1724–1732

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Massamba N’Siala G, Grandi V, Iotti M, Montanari G, Prevedelli D, Simonini R (2008) Responses of a Northern Adriatic Ampelisca–Corbula community to seasonality and short-term hydrological changes in the Po river. Mar Environ Res 66:466–476

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Maugeri TL, Lentini V, Gugliandolo C, Italiano F, Cousin S, Stackebrandt E (2009) Bacterial and archaeal populations at two shallow hydrothermal vents off Panarea Island (Eolian Islands, Italy). Extremophiles 13(1):199–212

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Melwani AR, Kim SL (2008) Benthic infaunal distributions in shallow hydrothermal vent sediments. Acta Oecol 33:162–175

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Nye V, Copley JT (2014) Reproductive ecology of a hippolytid shrimp, Lebbeus virentova (Caridea: Hippolytidae) at the Von Damm Vent Field, Mid-Cayman Spreading Centre. Mar Biol 161(10):2371–2380

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Panieri G, Gamberi F, Marani M, Barbieri R (2005) Benthic foraminifera from a recent, shallow-water hydrothermal environment in the Aeolian Arc (Tyrrhenian Sea). Mar Geol 218:207–229

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Rosenberg R (2001) Marine benthic faunal successional stages and related sedimentary activity. Sci Mar 65:107–119

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ruffo S (1989) The amphipoda of the Mediterranean. Memoires de l’institut Oceanographique de Monaco 13

  • Savelli C, Marani M, Gamberi F (1999) Geochemiatry of metalliferous, hydrothermal deposits in the Aeolian arc (Tyrrhenian Sea). J Volcanol Geotherm Res 88:305–323

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Sommer S, Linke P, Píannkuche O, Schleicher T, Schneider J, Deimling V, Reitz A, Haeckel M, Flögel S, Hensen C (2009) Seabed methane emissions and habitat of frenulate tubeworms on the Captain Arutyunov mud volcano (Gulf of Cadiz). Mar Ecol Prog Ser 382:69–86

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Southward AJ, Southward EC, Dando PR, Hughes JA, Kennicut MC, Herrera-Alcala J, Leahy Y (1997) Behaviour and feeding of the nassarid gastropod Cyclope neritea, abundant at hydrothermal brine seeps off Milos (Aegean Sea). J Mar Biol Assoc UK 77:753–771

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Tarasov VG, Gebruk AV, Mironov AN, Moskalev LI (2005) Deep-sea and shallow water hydrothermal vent communities: two different phenomena? Chem Geol 224:5–39

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Thiermann F, Windoffer R, Giere O (1994) Selected meiofauna around shallow water hydrothermal vents off Milos (Greece): ecological and ultrastructural aspects. Vie Milieu 44:215–226

    Google Scholar 

  • Tunnicliffe V (1988) The biology of hydrothermal vents: ecology and evolution. Oceanogr Mar Biol Annu Rev 29:19–407

    Google Scholar 

  • Van Dover CL, Berg CJ Jr, Turner RD (1988) Recruitment of marine invertebrates to hard substrates at deep-sea hydrothermal vents on the East Pacific Rise and Galapagos spreading center. Deep-Sea Res Part A 35:1833–1849

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Van Dover CT, Kaartvedt S, Bollens SM, Wiebe PH, Martin JW, France SC (1992) Deep-sea amphipod swarms. Nature 358:25–26

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Vinogradov GM (1993) Amphipods (Crustacea) from hydrothermal vents of the eastern Pacific. ZooL Zh 72:40–53

    Google Scholar 

  • Vinogradov GM (1995) Amphipods from hydrothermal vents and cold sleeping on the ocean bottom. Oceanology 35(1):69–74

    Google Scholar 

  • Zeppilli D, Danovaro R (2009) Meiofaunal diversity and assemblage structure in a shallow-water hydrothermal vent in the Pacific Ocean. Aquat Biol 5:75–84

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. ISPRA, Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, Laboratory of Ichthyology and Marine Ecology, Via dei Mille 46, 98057, Milazzo, ME, Italy

    Valentina Esposito & Teresa Romeo

  2. Department of Animal Biology and Marine Ecology, University of Messina, Viale F. Stagno D’Alcontres 31, 98166, Messina, Italy

    Salvatore Giacobbe, Andrea Cosentino & Caterina Stefania Minerva

  3. ISPRA, Via Vitaliano Brancati 48, 00166, Rome, Italy

    Simonepietro Canese

  4. ISPRA, STS Palermo, c/o Marbela Residence, Via Salvatore Puglisi 9, 90143, Palermo, Italy

    Franco Andaloro

Authors
  1. Valentina Esposito
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Salvatore Giacobbe
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Andrea Cosentino
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. Caterina Stefania Minerva
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  5. Teresa Romeo
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  6. Simonepietro Canese
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  7. Franco Andaloro
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Valentina Esposito.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Esposito, V., Giacobbe, S., Cosentino, A. et al. Distribution and ecology of the tube-dweller Ampelisca ledoyeri (Amphipoda: Ampeliscidae) associated with the hydrothermal field off Panarea Island (Tyrrhenian Sea, Mediterranean). Mar Biodiv 45, 763–768 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-014-0285-5

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Revised:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-014-0285-5

Keywords

Search

Navigation