Latitudinal Patterns of Gastropod Drilling Predation Intensity Through Time

Mondal, Subhronil; Chakraborty, Hindolita; Paul, Sandip

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“…Naticid confamilial predation—a measure of predation and competition among naticids—did increase during the Cenozoic, and there are even reports of change in naticid–naticid predatory interactions (Kowalewski et al 1998; Dietl and Alexander 2000; Mondal et al 2017). As predators, although naticids became spatially widespread during the latter part of the Cenozoic (Huntley and Kowalewski 2007; Mondal et al 2019), their basic morphospace did not expand. Surprisingly, the shell globosity and apertural shape—features directly related to naticid predation ability—also show no temporal change (Kitchell 1986; Dietl and Alexander 2000; Fig.…”

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“…This predator–prey interactive system is geologically ancient and can be studied in detail by looking at the fossil record of drilling predation, thereby allowing workers to use this to test two potential hypotheses—coevolution and escalation—between naticids and their prey (Vermeij 1987; Dietl and Kelley 2002; Klompmaker et al 2017). General studies on this ecological interaction have identified many large-scale patterns, with latitudinal as well as temporal rise in drilling predation being the most significant (Kowalewski et al 1998; Kelley and Hansen 2006; Huntley and Kowalewski 2007; Mondal et al 2017, 2019). However, despite the spatiotemporal abundance and ecological importance of naticid gastropods, the nature of the temporal evolution of this ecological interaction is sometimes difficult to identify and analyze, because the taxonomic status of both extinct and extant members of this family are fraught with uncertainty.…”

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Morphological conservatism of the family Naticidae (Gastropoda) through time: potential causes and consequences

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Taxonomic status of several members of the family Naticidae is extremely vague because of its simple shell morphology. Conventional taxonomic classification schemes suggest that most of the morphological characters tend to be homoplastic and exhibit convergence. Such morphological convergence complicates naticid taxonomy and makes it difficult to understand the evolutionary history of this group; several unrelated taxa are often misidentified as naticids, thereby exaggerating the actual diversity of this group. Here, we employ a standard landmark-based approach to understand the pattern of morphological evolution of this family. Ordination methods such as principal components analysis and canonical variate analysis were used to create morphospaces, and disparity was quantified using variance and range. Our results reveal that when naticids are compared with their sister taxon, Ampullinidae, the two families show significant differences in their average shapes, despite their superficial resemblances. Among naticids, although the mean shapes of the individual subfamilies are different, overall, the family Naticidae has displayed extreme morphological conservatism from the Jurassic to the Holocene. Interestingly, this conservatism has been unaffected by taxonomic changes—neither the extinction of the subfamily Gyrodinae nor the appearance of the subfamily Sininae affected this morphological conservatism. Naticids have always shown strong ecological preference toward an infaunal mode of life and strict behavioral selectivity in handling and preying upon infaunal organisms, and this ecological and behavioral conservatism could have enabled them to diversify without undergoing a change in their basic Bauplan.

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Morphological conservatism of the family Naticidae (Gastropoda) through time: potential causes and consequences

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Mondal

Das³

et al. 2021

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“…Predatory drill holes in marine shells provide information about ecological interaction and help make predation-related hypotheses (e.g., escalation) testable by applying detailed statistical analyses. The study of drilling predation in extant and extinct taxa, therefore, forms the focus of many research papers (Vermeij, 1977, 1987; Kelley and Hansen, 1993; Harper, 1994; Kardon, 1998; Dietl and Kelley, 2002, 2006; Kowalewski, 2002; Mondal et al, 2010, 2017, 2019a, b; Bardhan et al, 2012, 2014; Das et al, 2014; Mallick et al, 2014; Pahari et al, 2016; Sarkar et al, 2016; Anderson et al, 2017; Klompmaker et al, 2017, 2019; among others).…”

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Paleoecology of naticid–molluscan prey interaction during the Late Jurassic (Oxfordian) in Kutch, India: evolutionary implications

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We document and quantify one of the oldest predator–prey interactions between naticid gastropods and molluscan prey, on the basis of drill holes in shells, from the Late Jurassic (Oxfordian) beds of Kutch, western India. Previously, many workers recorded naticid-like drill holes on prey taxa from the Triassic and the Jurassic, but in the absence of associated naticid body fossils, they remained equivocal. The present gastropod community is dominated by turritellines (98% of the sample) that form the turritelline-dominated assemblage, and the naticid drilling predation is restricted almost entirely to turritellines among gastropods. Confamilial naticid predation takes place occasionally. Within the bivalve community, corbulids and nuculids are most abundant and are drilled more often than other taxa. These observations indicate that prey selection was opportunistic and based solely on availability. Drilling intensities at both assemblage and lower taxon levels are low. Behavioral stereotypy of naticid predation in some cases is moderately high. Turritellines are often the preferred prey of naticid gastropods since the late Early Cretaceous. These two groups form a recurrent association reflecting prey–predator interaction. Here we suggest that both turritellines and naticids evolved during the Jurassic, and the prey–predator interaction between them was established shortly thereafter. Among bivalves, corbulids also became important prey of naticids in the same spatiotemporal framework. Corbulids are older than naticids and first appeared during the Middle Jurassic. After their first encounter with naticids, corbulids evolved conchiolin layers within the valves to resist predation.

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“…For instance, studies aimed at evaluating predation frequency from drill holes have reported different latitudinal trends, including equatorward (Alexander & Dietl, 2001;Visaggi & Kelley, 2015), poleward (Vermeij et al, 1989;Hansen & Kelley, 1995;Hoffmeister & Kowalewski, 2001) and mid-latitude peaks of predation declining both to the north and the south (Kelley & Hansen, 2007;Mondal et al, 2019); while other studies have found no overall latitudinal trends in predation patterns (Das et al, 2014). These studies have mainly been carried out in European and North American Cenozoic deposits (Klompmaker et al, 2019), and reports of predation frequency in the southern hemisphere are scarce (but see Martinelli et al, 2013;Das et al, 2014;Visaggi & Kelley, 2015;Mondal et al, 2019). Available data on naticids for South America include studies by Couto (1996), Simões et al (2007) and more recently by Visaggi & Kelley (2015).…”

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Naticid drilling predation from tidal flats in northern Patagonia, SW Atlantic

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Naticids and muricids are the main drilling gastropod families that leave a characteristic hole in their shelled prey. Drilling predation can be evaluated along spatial scales, and different latitudinal patterns (equatorward, poleward, mid-latitude peaks or no trend at all) have already been described. For Argentine Patagonia, most studies have analysed muricid predation, but scant information is available on naticid predation. This study provides evidence of predation by the moon snail Notocochlis isabelleana on a thin and fragile burrowing bivalve, Darina solenoides, along the intertidal sandflats at Pozo Salado, San Matías Gulf, in northern Patagonia. To estimate the incidence of predation, articulated specimens of Darina solenoides (N = 432) were randomly collected in the intertidal zone. Drill holes (N = 94) were recorded in shell lengths ranging between 10 and 35 mm. Taking into account previous studies in the region, the intensity of mortality by drilling (22%) constitutes a higher value than expected for this latitude. These results may help explain local patterns in a particular site in northern Patagonia which has been previously identified as an outlier, but further studies aimed at evaluating macrogeographic patterns are necessary for a better understanding of the regional factors that might be governing these predator–prey interactions.

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Latitudinal Patterns of Gastropod Drilling Predation Intensity Through Time

Cited by 15 publications

References 84 publications

Morphological conservatism of the family Naticidae (Gastropoda) through time: potential causes and consequences

Morphological conservatism of the family Naticidae (Gastropoda) through time: potential causes and consequences

Paleoecology of naticid–molluscan prey interaction during the Late Jurassic (Oxfordian) in Kutch, India: evolutionary implications

Naticid drilling predation from tidal flats in northern Patagonia, SW Atlantic

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