Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-dsjbd Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-28T15:20:24.771Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Species and Generic Gamma-Scale Diversity in Shallow-Water Marine Amphipoda with Particular Reference to the Mediterranean

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

A.A. Myers
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, University College, Cork, Ireland

Extract

Major hotspots of amphipod species richness and of species and generic endemicity can be recognized in shallow seas. Recognition of ‘hotspots’ for amphipods must take account of the species-area relationship but not of latitude. The richness and endemicity of amphipods in the Mediterranean Sea is shown to be high when compared with other shallow seas This indicates a long in situ evolutionary history and is therefore not compatible with the hypothesis that the Mediterranean fauna was extirpated in the late Miocene.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1996

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Angel, M.V., 1993. Biodiversity of the pelagic ocean. Conservation Biology, 7, 760772.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Barnard, J.L., 1970. Sublittoral Gammaridea (Amphipoda) of the Hawaiian Islands. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, no. 34, 286 pp.Google Scholar
Barnard, J.L., 1972. The marine fauna of New Zealand: algae-living littoral Gammaridea (Crustacea, Amphipoda). Memoirs. New Zealand Oceanographic Institution, 62, 1216.Google Scholar
Barnard, J.L. & Karaman, G.S., 1991. The families and genera of marine gammaridean Amphipoda (except marine gammaroids). 2 parts. Records of the Australian Museum, supplement 13, 1866.Google Scholar
Benson, R.H., 1979. In search of lost oceans: a paradox in discovery. In Biogeography, plate tectonics, and the changing environment (ed. A.J., Boucot and J., Gray), pp. 379389. Eugene: Oregon State University Press.Google Scholar
Berggren, W.A. & Hollister, C.D., 1977. Plate tectonics and paleocirculation- commotion in the ocean. Tectonophysics, 18, 1148.Google Scholar
Bouchet, P. & Taviani, M., 1992. The Mediterranean deep-sea fauna: pseudopopulations of Atlantic species? Deep-Sea Research, 39(2A), 169184.Google Scholar
Bousfield, E.L., 1973. Shallow-water gammaridean Amphipoda of New England. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press.Google Scholar
Brown, J.H., 1988. Species diversity. In Analytical biogeography, an integrated approach to the study of animal and plant distributions (ed. A.A., Myers and P.S., Giller), pp. 5789. London: Chapman & Hall.Google Scholar
Broyer, C. de & Jazdzewski, K., 1993. A checklist of the Amphipoda (Crustacea) of the Southern Ocean. Contribution to the marine biodiversity inventory. Documents de Travail, lnstitut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, 73, 1154.Google Scholar
Cita, M.B., 1973. Mediterranean evaporite: palaeontological arguments for a deep basin dessication model. In Messinian events in the Mediterranean (ed. C.W., Drooger), pp. 206228. Amsterdam: North Holland Publishing Co.Google Scholar
Clarke, A., 1992. Is there a latitudinal diversity cline in the sea? Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 7, 286287.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Costello, M.J., Holmes, J.M.C., McGrath, D. & Myers, A.A., 1989. A review and catalogue of the Amphipoda (Crustacea) in Ireland. Irish Fisheries Investigations. Series B (Marine). Dublin, 33, 170.Google Scholar
Ekman, S., 1953. Zoogeography of the sea. London: Sidgwick & lackson.Google Scholar
Griffiths, C.L., 1976. Guide to the benthic marine amphipods of southern Africa. Cape Town: Trustees of the South African Museum.Google Scholar
Hirayama, A., 1986. Taxonomic studies on the shallow water gammaridean Amphipoda of West Kyushu, lapan. VI. Lysianassidae (Orchomene), Megaluropus family group, Melitides (Cottesloe, Jerbania, Maera, Ceradocus, Eriopisella, Dulichiella). Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory. Japan, 31, 135.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Holsinger, J.R., 1993. Biodiversity of subterranean amphipod crustaceans; global patterns and zoogeographic implications. Journal of Natural History, 27, 821835.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hsü, K.J. et al., 1977. History of the Mediterranean salinity crisis. Nature, London, 267, 399403.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ishimaru, S., 1994. A catalogue of Gammaridean and Ingolfiellidean Amphipoda recorded from the vicinity of Japan. Report of the Sado Marine Biological Station. Niigata University, 24, 2986.Google Scholar
Jebb, M.H.P & Lowry, J.K., 1995. Amphipoda (Crustacea) of the Madang Lagoon, Papua New Guinea: geology, oceanography and biology, with an appendix to collecting localities. In Amphipoda (Crustacea) of the Madang Lagoon, Papua New Guinea (ed. J.K., Lowry). Records of the Australian Museum, supplement 22, 124.Google Scholar
Krapp-Schickel, G. & Ruffo, S., 1990. Marine amphipods of the Canary Islands with description of a new species of Elasmopus. Miscellania Zoologica, 14, 5358.Google Scholar
Kosswig, C., 1955. Zoogeography of the Near East. Systematic Zoology, 4(2), 4973.Google Scholar
Ledoyer, M., 1978. Amphipodes gammariens (Crustacea) des biotopes cavitaires organogènes récifaux de l'ile Maurice (Océan Indien). Bulletin of the Mauritius Institute, 8, 197332.Google Scholar
Ledoyer, M., 1982. Crustacés Amphipodes Gammariens Families des Acanthanotozomatidae à Gammaridae. Faune de Madagascar, 59, 1598.Google Scholar
Ledoyer, M., 1986. Crustacés Amphipodes Gammariens Families des Haustoriidae a Vitjazianidae. Faune de Madagascar, 59, 5991112.Google Scholar
Lowry, J.K. & Stoddart, H.E., 1995. Amphipoda (Crustacea) of the Madang Lagoon, Papua New Guinea: Lysianassidae and Stegocephalidae. Records of the Australian Museum, supplement 22, 97174.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lyons, J., 1991. Amphipoda Gammaridea from coral rubble in the Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea. PhD thesis, National University of Ireland.Google Scholar
Marques, J.C. & Bellan-Santini, D., 1993. Biodiversity in the ecosystem of the Portuguese continental shelf: distributional ecology and the role of benthic amphipods. Marine Biology, 115, 555564.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
McCoy, E.D. & Heck, K.L. Jr 1976. Biogeography of corals, seagrasses and mangroves: an alternative to the center of origin concept. Systematic Zoology, 25, 201210.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Menzies, R.J., George, R.Y. & Rowe, G.T., 1973. Abyssal environment and ecology of the world oceans. New York: John Wiley & Sons.Google Scholar
Myers, A. A., 1985. Shallow-water, coral reef and mangrove Amphipoda (Gammaridea) of Fiji. Records of the Australian Museum, supplement 5, 1143.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Myers, A.A., 1991. How did Hawaii accumulate its biota? A test from the Amphipoda. Global Ecology and Biogeography Letters, 1, 2429.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Myers, A.A, 1993., Dispersal and endemicity in gammaridean Amphipoda. Journal of Natural History, 27, 901908.Google Scholar
Myers, A.A., 1994. Biogeographic patterns in shallow-water marine systems and the controlling processes at different scales. In Aquatic ecology: scale, pattern and process (ed. P.S., Giller et al.), pp. 547574. London: Blackwell Scientific Publications.Google Scholar
Myers, A.A. & Giller, P.S., 1988. Introduction to biogeographic patterns. In Analytical biogeography, an integrated approach to the study of animal and plant distributions (ed. A.A., Myers and P.S., Giller), pp. 1521. London: Chapman & Hall.Google Scholar
Ribbink, A.J., 1994. Biodiversity and speciation of freshwater fishes with particular reference to African cichlids. In Aquatic ecology: scale, pattern and process (ed. P.S., Giller et al.), pp. 261287. London: Blackwell Scientific Publications.Google Scholar
Ruffo, S., 1971. Un nuovo genere di Lysianassidae del Golfo di Napoli e osservazione su Lysianella dellavallei Stebbing. Memorie. Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona, 19, 103112.Google Scholar
Ruffo, S., ed., 1982. The Amphipoda of the Mediterranean. Part 1. Gammaridea (Acanthonotozomatidae to Gammaridae). Memoires de llnstitut Oceanographique. Monaco, 13, 1364.Google Scholar
Ruffo, S., ed., 1989, The Amphipoda of the Mediterranean. Part 2. Gammaridea (Haustoriidae to Lysianassidae). Memoires de llnstitut Oceanographique. Monaco, 13, 365576.Google Scholar
Ruffo, S., ed., 1993. The Amphipoda of the Mediterranean. Part 3. Gammaridea (Melphidippidae to Talitridae), Ingolfieliidea, Caprellidea. Memoires de llnstitut Oceanographique. Monaco, 13, 577813.Google Scholar
Schellenberg, A., 1931. Gammariden und Caprelliden des Magellangebietes, Siidgeorgiens und der Westantarktis. Further Zoological Results of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1901–1903, 2(6), 1290.Google Scholar
Stanley, S.M., 1986. Earth and life through time. New York: W.H. Freeman & Co.Google Scholar
Stehli, F.G., McAlester, A.L. & Helsley, C.E. 1967. Taxonomic diversity of recent bivalves and some implications for geology. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 78, 455–66.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Stock, J.H., 1993. Some remarkable distribution patterns in stygobiont Amphipoda. Journal of Natural History, 27, 807819.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Windley, B.F., 1984. The evolving continents. New York: John Wiley & Sons.Google Scholar