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Arm autotomy and arm branching pattern as anti-predatory adaptations in stalked and stalkless crinoids

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2016

Tatsuo Oji  and
Takashi Okamoto
Tatsuo Oji
Affiliation:
Geological Institute, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113, Japan
Takashi Okamoto
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Sciences, Ehime University, Matsuyama 790, Japan
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Abstract

Arm autotomy was induced in a living specimen of Metacrinus rotundus (Echinodermata: Crinoidea). An arm was autotomized at a ligamentary articulation known as a cryptosyzygy, following incision by scissors distal to the break point. Although sessile stalked crinoids cannot entirely escape from a predatory attack by arm autotomy and they do not have an active defense, arm autotomy at cryptosyzygies reduces damage and arm loss by effective distribution, and by minimizing trauma and facilitating subsequent regeneration.

The paradigmatic distribution of cryptosyzygies in which arm loss is set at a minimum, compared with the actual distribution, shows that these two patterns are similar and that actual specimens successfully reduce arm loss by the effective distribution of cryptosyzygies. The crinoid branching pattern also affects arm loss, and two different paradigms are discussed: anti-predatory and harvesting. Arm branching patterns of various isocrinids have tended toward the anti-predatory configuration from the Jurassic to the Recent, suggesting that the isocrinids have coped with increased predation. Shallow-water comatulids generally adopt the anti-predatory paradigm in their branching pattern, whereas many deep-water, stalked crinoids adopt a harvesting paradigm, reflecting that shallow-water comatulids receive more predatory attacks than do deep-water crinoids.

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Paleobiology , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , Winter 1994 , pp. 27 - 39
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Copyright © The Paleontological Society 

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