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Larval and early post-larval development of the protobranch bivalve Solemya velum (Mollusca: Bivalvia)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

R.G. Gustafson  and
R.A. Lutz
R.G. Gustafson
Affiliation:
Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903, USA
R.A. Lutz
Affiliation:
Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903, USA
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Abstract

Early development in the north-west Atlantic awning clam, Solemya velum (Solemyoida: Solemyidae) was examined by light and scanning electron microscopy. Embryonic and pericalymma larval stages, typical of protobranch bivalves, developed within individual adhesive gelatinous egg capsules and offspring emerged at hatching as benthic crawl-away juveniles. Fertilized eggs were light orange in colour, spherical, and had a yolk-mass diameter of approximately 190 μm. Entirely ciliated cylindrical pericalymma larvae, with a length and width of 318 μm and 208 μn, respectively, were obtained within 24 h. These larvae lacked an apical ciliary tuft, possessed nine rows of calymma cells, and actively rotated within the egg capsule. During metamorphosis, which occurred within 48 h of fertilization, the transitory larval ectoderm was entirely ingested. The prodissoconch measured roughly 320 μm in length by 215 μm in height. The foot and ciliated gill buds were well developed by four days after fertilization and subsequent growth contributed to the dissoconch or adult shell. Hatching began at 13 d after fertilization when the shell measured approximately 402 μm in length by 251 μm in height. Actively crawling and burrowing juveniles were cultured for six months after fertilization and an ontogenetic sequence of encapsulated and juvenile shell morphology was obtained for identification purposes. Current contradictory hypotheses regarding the phylogeny of marine bivalve develop-mental types are reviewed in light of new information on the Order Solemyoida.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 72 , Issue 2 , May 1992 , pp. 383 - 402
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1992

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