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タイトル: | Burrowing hard corals occurring on the sea floor since 80 million years ago |
著者: | Sentoku, Asuka Tokuda, Yuki Ezaki, Yoichi |
著者名の別形: | 千徳, 明日香 |
キーワード: | Animal behaviour Palaeoecology Palaeontology |
発行日: | 14-Apr-2016 |
出版者: | Springer Nature |
誌名: | Scientific Reports |
巻: | 6 |
論文番号: | 24355 |
抄録: | We describe a previously unknown niche for hard corals in the small, bowl-shaped, solitary scleractinian, Deltocyathoides orientalis (Family Turbinoliidae), on soft-bottom substrates. Observational experiments were used to clarify how the sea floor niche is exploited by turbinoliids. Deltocyathoides orientalis is adapted to an infaunal mode of life and exhibits behaviours associated with automobility that include burrowing into sediments, vertical movement through sediments to escape burial, and recovery of an upright position after being overturned. These behaviours were achieved through repeated expansion and contraction of their peripheral soft tissues, which constitute a unique muscle-membrane system. Histological analysis showed that these muscle arrangements were associated with deeply incised inter-costal spaces characteristic of turbinoliid corals. The oldest known turbinoliid, Bothrophoria ornata, which occurred in the Cretaceous (Campanian), also possessed a small, conical skeleton with highly developed costae. An infaunal mode of life became available to turbinoliids due to the acquisition of automobility through the muscle-membrane system at least 80 million years ago. The newly discovered active burrowing strategies described herein provide new insights into the use of an unattached mode of life by corals inhabiting soft-bottom substrates throughout the Phanerozoic. |
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URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2433/227463 |
DOI(出版社版): | 10.1038/srep24355 |
PubMed ID: | 27074813 |
出現コレクション: | 学術雑誌掲載論文等 |
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