Bougainvillia muscus
Overview
Scientific Name: Bougainvillia muscus
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: Hydrozoa
Order: Anthoathecata
Family: Bougainvillidae
Genus: Bougainvillia
Species:
muscus (synonymised from B. ramosa)
[Describe here as A. iricolor]
Native Distribution
Origin Realm:
Temperate Northern Atlantic,
Tropical Atlantic,
Temperate South America,
Temperate Northern Pacific,
Tropical Eastern Pacific,
Western Indo-Pacific,
Central Indo-Pacific,
Temperate Australasia,
Temperate Southern Africa,
Arctic
Native Region:
Origin Location:
CONFLICT: listed as both native (not stated) and non-indigenous to several areas. Mediterranean reports may be a different species (Denitto et al. 2007)
Temperate Northern Atlantic
Northeast Atlantic; Mediterranean Sea; southern Gulf of Mexico and northern Caribbean Sea; Maine, USA; Bermuda (Lee II & Reusser 2012) STATED *Note, also listed as cryptogenic in the Mediterranean, or possibly not there at all
*Note: Denitto et al. (2007) stated that Mediterranean reports of B.m. are likely to be B. nana
Northeast Atlantic (Hewitt 2002) STATED
UK: England, Devon, Torquay (Calder et al. 2012) *TYPE LOCALITY
Izmir Bay, eastern Mediterranean (Cinar et al. 2008) STATUS NOT STATED, but first record for this area
Laguna de Términos, Campeche, Mexico (Cortés-Lacomba et al. 2013) STATUS NOT STATED, but first record for this location
North Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea (Van der Land et al. 2001, cited in Cortés-Lacomba et al. 2013) STATUS NOT STATED *Note: also listed as non-native to some of these areas
North Inlet, SC, USA (Marshalonis & Pinckney 2008) STATUS NOT STATED
Milos Island, Aegean Sea (Morri & Bianchi 1999) STATUS NOT STATED
Found in the Mediterranean Sea, Atlantic Ocean (Schmidt 1973) STATUS NOT STATED *Note: also listed as non-native to some of these areas
Sweden (58°52’33.68â€N, 11°08’43.65â€E and 58°52’40â€N, 11°06’53â€E); west coast of Sweden to southern Kattegat; Norway to Cape Verde Islands; southern New England (multiple authors, cited in Calder 2012) STATUS NOT STATED
Southern England (multiple authors, cited in Calder 2010) STATUS NOT STATED
[Bougainvillia ramosa (synonymised taxon)] North Atlantic: British Isles, North Sea, Norway, Bay of Biscay, Mediterranean and Adriatic Sea, Rhode Island, USA (Vannucci & Rees 1960) STATUS NOT STATED; Type locality: Ostende
[Bougainvillia ramosa (synonymised taxon)] Southwest Ireland (Ballard & Myers 1996) STATUS NOT STATED
[Bougainvillia ramosa (synonymised taxon)] Norfolk, UK (Hamond 1957) STATUS NOT STATED, though new to Norfolk coast, not new to UK
[Bougainvillia ramosa (synonymised taxon)] Northwestern Europe; Mediterranean; New England south of Cape Cod; south coast of Iceland (Hartlaub 1911, cited in Kramp 1959) STATUS NOT STATED
[B. autumnalis (synonymised taxon)] Southern New England (Mayer 1910, cited in Calder 2012) STATUS NOT STATED
Tropical Atlantic
Mexico: Laguna Madre, Tamaulipas (Mendoza-Becerril 2006, cited in Cortés-Lacomba et al. 2013) STATUS NOT STATED *Note: also listed as non-native to some of these areas
West Africa (Safe-doors et al. 2009, cited in Cortés-Lacomba et al. 2013) STATUS NOT STATED *Note: also listed as non-native to some of these areas
Norway to Cape Verde Islands; Bermuda (multiple authors, cited in Calder 2012) STATUS NOT STATED
[Bougainvillia ramosa (synonymised taxon)] Amboina (Vannucci & Rees 1960) STATUS NOT STATED
[Bougainvillia ramosa (synonymised taxon)] West coast of Africa (Hartlaub 1911, cited in Kramp 1959) STATUS NOT STATED
[Bougainvillia ramosa (synonymised taxon)] North Atlantic: Cape Verde Islands; South Atlantic: western coast of South Africa (Vannucci & Rees 1960) STATUS NOT STATED; Type locality: Ostende
[B. autumnalis (synonymised taxon)] Bermuda (Mayer 1910, cited in Calder 2012) STATUS NOT STATED
[Bougainvillia ramose (synonymised taxon, unrecognized spelling)] Atlantic Ocean (eastern, western); North Sea; Mediterranean and Black Sea (multiple authors, cited in Dautova & Pautrova 2010) STATUS NOT STATED
Temperate South America
Southern Chile between the Boca del Guafo (43º46 ÌS) and Elefantes Fjord (46º29 ÌS) (Bravo et al. 2011) STATUS NOT STATED Note: listed as both non-indigenous and native (not stated) to this area
Buenos Aires, Argentina (Genzano 2002) STATUS NOT STATED
[Bougainvillia ramosa (synonymised taxon)] San Clemente Stream, Samborombóm Bay (26 II 92; 36º18' S, 56º47' W; Genzano 1995); Blanca Bay (38º40'S-61º40' W; Blanco 1988, cited in Genzano 1995); Mar del Plata, 37º08' S-57º31' W; and between 41º08' S, 42º19' S and 60º57', 62º51'W (Ramirez & Zamponi 1980, cited in Genzano 1995; Zamponi 1983, cited in Genzano 1995) STATUS NOT STATED
[Bougainvillia ramosa (synonymised taxon)] Southern coast of Brazil (Vannucci & Rees 1960) STATUS NOT STATED
Temperate Northern Pacific
Santa Cruz, California, USA (Griffith & Newberry 2008) STATUS NOT STATED *Note: also listed as non-native to this area
[Bougainvillea ramosa (synonymised taxon, with genus misspelled)] Northern Strait of Georgia; Johnstone Stait (Burd et al. 2009) STATUS NOT STATED, *Note: also listed as cryptogenic to this area
[Bougainvillea ramosa (synonymised taxon, with genus misspelled)] Strait of Georgia, BC, Canada (Macdonald et al. 2010) STATUS NOT STATED *Note: also listed as cryptogenic to this area
[Bougainvillia ramosa (synonymised taxon)] Race rocks, BC, Canada (Brinkmann-Voss 1996) STATUS NOT STATED
[Bougainvillia ramosa (synonymised taxon)] Japan, China (Vannucci & Rees 1960) STATUS NOT STATED
[Bougainvillia ramosa (synonymised taxon)] Northwestern Sea of Japan (Chaplygina 2006) STATUS NOT STATED *Note: also listed as non-native to this area
[Bougainvillia ramosa (synonymised taxon)] Sagami Bay, Japan. (Hirohito 1988)
[Bougainvillia ramose (synonymised taxon, unrecognized spelling)] Northwestern Sea of Japan; eastern Russia, Pacific side of Japan, west coast of North America (multiple authors, cited in Dautova & Pautrova 2010) STATUS NOT STATED
Tropical Eastern Pacific
Bay of Panama (Miglietta et al. 2008) STATUS NOT STATED *Note: also listed as non-native to this area
Hawaii (multiple authors, cited in Calder 2010) STATUS NOT STATED
Western Indo-Pacific
Found in the Suez Canal, Indian Ocean (Schmidt 1973) STATUS NOT STATED *Note: also listed as non-native to some of these areas
Indian Oceans (multiple authors, cited in Calder 2010) STATUS NOT STATED
[Bougainvillia ramose (synonymised taxon, unrecognized spelling)] Indian Ocean (multiple authors, cited in Dautova & Pautrova 2010) STATUS NOT STATED
Central Indo-Pacific
[Bougainvillia ramosa (synonymised taxon)] Indo-Pacific: Australia (Vannucci & Rees 1960) STATUS NOT STATED
[Bougainvillia ramose (synonymised taxon, unrecognized spelling)] Papua-New Guinea and Indonesia (multiple authors, cited in Dautova & Pautrova 2010) STATUS NOT STATED
Temperate Australasia
Nelson Marina, New Zealand (Piola & Hopkins 2012) STATUS NOT STATED *Note: also listed as non-native to this area
[Bougainvillia ramose (synonymised taxon, unrecognized spelling)] New Zealand (multiple authors, cited in Dautova & Pautrova 2010) STATUS NOT STATED
Temperate Southern Africa
Found in South Africa (Schmidt 1973) STATUS NOT STATED *Note: also listed as non-native to some of these areas
Arctic
Arctic Ocean (Lopez et al. 2007, cited in Cortés-Lacomba et al. 2013) STATUS NOT STATED *Note: also listed as non-native to some of these areas
[Bougainvillia ramose (synonymised taxon, unrecognized spelling)] Arctic Ocean (multiple authors, cited in Dautova & Pautrova 2010) STATUS NOT STATED
Uncertain realm
Indo-Pacific (Lopez et al. 2007, cited in Cortés-Lacomba et al. 2013) STATUS NOT STATED *Note: also listed as non-native to some of these areas
South Atlantic (Bouillon 1999, cited in Cortés-Lacomba et al. 2013) STATUS NOT STATED *Note: also listed as non-native to some of these areas
Western and eastern Atlantic, western and eastern Pacific (multiple authors, cited in Calder 2010) STATUS NOT STATED
[Bougainvillia ramose (synonymised taxon, unrecognized spelling)] Cosmopolitan species; Atlantic Ocean (southern); Australia (multiple authors, cited in Dautova & Pautrova 2010) STATUS NOT STATED *Note: also listed as non-native to some of these areas
RELATED:
Temperate Northern Pacific
[Bougainvillea sp. (genus misspelled)] Parry Bay, Juan de Fuca Strait; Southeast Vancouver Island (Burd et al. 2009) STATUS NOT STATED
Geographic Range:
-97.8000030517578 -52.3000030517578, 174.900009155273 63.9000015258789 (OBIS 2016)
Arctic Ocean (Lopez et al. 2007, cited in Cortés-Lacomba et al. 2013; multiple authors, cited in Dautova & Pautrova 2010) to Southern Chile (Bravo et al. 2011) and South Africa (Schmidt 1973)
General Diversity:
16S sequence data confirmed that populations from European and New Zealand populations are conspecific; divergence values were quite low (Schuchert 2007, cited in Calder 2010)
Non-native Distribution
Invasion History:
CONFLICT: NOTED AS INTRODUCED AND NATIVE (NOT STATED) IN MULTIPLE LOCATIONS
Probably introduced to the west coast of North America (Carlton 2007)
Introduced to several areas (Lee II & Reusser 2012)
Non-native Region:
Northeast Pacific, Tropical Eastern Pacific,
Magellanic,
Eastern Indo-Pacific, Southern Australia and New Zealand, Northwest Pacific, Indian Ocean,
West Tropical Atlantic, Mediterranean Sea
Invasion Propens:
CONFLICT: NOTED AS INTRODUCED AND NATIVE (NOT STATED) IN MULTIPLE LOCATIONS
Temperate Northern Pacific
Likely introduced to the west coast of North America (Carlton 2007) *Likely introduced
West coast of the USA and Vancouver Island; Japan (Lee II & Reusser 2012) *Introduced
Cryptogenic on the west coast of North America; collected from Grays Harbor, Washington state, USA (Calder et al. 2014) *Cryptogenic
Tropical Eastern Pacific
Colombia (Lee II & Reusser 2012) *Introduced
Eastern Indo-Pacific
Non indigenous in Hawaii (Kanoehe Bay) (Lee II & Reusser 2012) *Introduced
Introduced to Hawaii (Carlton & Eldredge 2015) *Introduced
Western Indo-Pacific
West coast of India (Lee II & Reusser 2012) *Introduced
Temperate Australasia
Tasmania and southeast Australia, northern New Zealand (Lee II & Reusser 2012) *Introduced
Introduced to New South Wales and Victoria, Australia (Hayes et al. 2005) *Introduced
Waitemata Harbour, New Zealand (Lohrer et al. 2008) *Invasive
Derwent Estuary, Tasmania (Aquenal 2002, cited in Leggett et al. 2013) *Introduced
Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia (Hewitt et al. 1999, cited in Ruiz et al. 2000) *Non-indigenous and established
Temperate South America
Southern Chile (Magellanic); coast of Ecuador (Lee II & Reusser 2012) *Introduced
Temperate Northern Atlantic
Cryptogenic in southern Spain (only found in harbours, not on natural substrate) (Megina et al. 2013) *Cryptogenic
Tropical Atlantic
Medusae recorded during one sampling cruise off the Caribbean coast of Mexico; not recorded previously (or in the subsequent two cruises that same year) (Suarez-Morales et al. 1999) *Note, not specified explicitly as non-native, but noted as first recording for this area
Uncertain realm
Likely introduced to the west coast of North America (Carlton 2007) *Likely introduced
Cryptogenic on the west coast of North America (Calder et al. 2014) *Cryptogenic
Status Date Non-native:
First recorded in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii: 1967 (Lee II & Reusser 2012; Carlton & Eldredge 2009, cited in Carlton & Eldredge 2015)
Friday Harbor, Washington: 1978 (Lee II & Reusser 2012)
Australia: 1918 (Hayes et al. 2005). Also noted as first record in 1931 in Sydney Harbour (Watson 1999, cited in Hayes et al. 2005)
Caribbean coast of Mexico: May 1991 (Suarez-Morales et al. 1999)
Southern Spain: August - October 2007 (Megina et al. 2013)
Vectors and Spread
Initial Vector:
Ballast water, Hull fouling (not specified), Aquaculture and Fisheries, Other
Second Vector:
NF
Vector Details:
Introduction vector: Hull fouling (not specified), ballast water; aquaculture and fisheries through Atlantic Oyster aquaculture (Lee II & Reusser 2012)
Introduction vector: hull fouling (not specified) and accidental introduction with translocations of fish or shellfish (Hayes et al. 2005)
Possibly introduced during WWII (Evenhuis & Carlton 2015)
Introduction vector: Found on tsunami debris (Calder et al. 2014)
Spread Rate:
NF
Date First Observed in Japan:
NF
Date First Observed on West coast North America:
Friday Harbor, Washington: 1978 (Lee II & Reusser 2012)
Impacts
Impact in Japan:
NF
Global Impact:
Water abstraction and nuisance fouling species. May clog water cooling pipes, fouling turbines (Hayes et al. 2005)
Tolerences
Native Temperature Regime:
Subtropical, Tropical, See details
Native Temperature Range:
Collected at 25 - 27 ºC; circumtropical species (Cortés-Lacomba et al. 2013)
Common temperate species (Hayes et al. 2005)
[Southwest Ireland] [Bougainvillia ramosa (synonymised taxon)] Lives predominantly in the upper 20 m, where temperature ranged from 10.5 - 15 ºC during the study (Ballard & Myers 1996)
[Sea of Japan] [Bougainvillia ramosa (synonymised taxon)] Amphiboreal subtropic-lowboreal (Chaplygina 2006)
[Santa Cruz, California, USA] Ocean temperature approximately 14 ºC (Griffith & Newberry 2008)
[North Inlet, SC, USA] Monthly average temperatures for the three sampling months were 11.6, 28.0, and 29.2 ºC (Marshalonis & Pinckney 2008)
[Bougainvillia ramosa (synonymised taxon)] Temperate and subtropical regions (Vannucci & Rees 1960)
[Bay of Panama] Collected during upwelling season (average temperature 22.13±3.04 ºC) and non-upwelling season (average 28.39±0.49 ºC) (Miglietta et al. 2008)
Non-native Temperature Regime:
See details
Non-native Temperature Range:
Found in temperate areas, but not tropical (Hewitt 2002)
Native Salinity Regime:
Polyhaline, Euhaline
Native Salinity Range:
Collected at 25.14 - 35.63 psu (Cortés-Lacomba et al. 2013)
[Southwest Ireland] [Bougainvillia ramosa (synonymised taxon)] Salinity rarely falls below 34 psu (Ballard & Myers 1996)
[North Inlet, SC, USA] Monthly average salinity for the three sampling months were 30.7, 31.3, and 31.9 ºC (Marshalonis & Pinckney 2008)
[Bay of Panama] Collected during upwelling season (average salinity 33.85±1.26 psu) and non-upwelling season (average 29.61±1.42 psu) (Miglietta et al. 2008)
Non-native Salinity Regime:
NF
Temperature Regime Survival:
See details
Temperature Range Survival:
6.695 - 19.536 ºC (OBIS 2016)
[Bougainvillia ramosa (synonymised taxon)] Eurythermic (Vannucci & Rees 1960)
[Nelson Harbor, New Zealand] 100% mortality when treated with water >37.5 ºC (Piola & Hopkins 2012)
[Nelson Harbor, New Zealand] 100% survival at control temperatures: 15 - 17 ºC and 20 - 25.5 ºC (Piola and Hopkins 2012)
Temperature Regime Reproduction:
See details
Temperature Range Reproduction:
Medusae produced gonads when raised at 21 ºC (Calder 2010) and 28-29 ºC (Calder 1988, cited in Calder 2010)
Salinity Regime Survival:
Polyhaline, Mesohaline, Euhaline, See details
Salinity Range Survival:
30.382 - 36.096 PPS (OBIS 2016)
[Bougainvillia ramosa (synonymised taxon)] Euryhaline (Vannucci & Rees 1960)
10 - <25 psu (Lee II & Reusser 2012) Salintiy Regime Reproduction:
Polyhaline, Euhaline
Salinity Range Reproduction:
NF
Depth Regime:
Lower intertidal, Shallow subtidal, Deep subtidal, Bathyal,
See details
Depth Range:
Sampled from 0 - 168 m (OBIS 2016)
0 - 1200 m depth. Observed in the intertidal, deep subtidal, and bathyal; prefers shallow subtidal. Pelagic depths include epi-surface, epi-shallow, and epi-deep (0 - 200 m) (Lee II & Reusser 2012)
[Bougainvillia ramosa (synonymised taxon)] Predominantly in the upper 20 m (Ballard & Myers 1996)
[Bougainvillia ramosa (synonymised taxon)] Subtidal to less than 1 m (Chaplygina 2006)
[Bougainvillia ramose (synonymised taxon, unrecognized spelling)] Depths down to 80 m; also recorded in the deep sea down to 5000 m (Altuna 2006, cited in Dautova & Pautrova 2010)
[Bougainvillia ramosa (synonymised taxon)] 2 m depth (Genzano 1995)
Depths < 1 m (Calder 2012)
[Bougainvillea ramosa (synonymised taxon, with genus misspelled)] Intertidal upper limit: MLWS; also offshore from 10 - 33 fathoms (~18 - 60 m) (Miller 1961)
[Aegean Sea] Very common from 44 - 90 m depth (Morri & Bianchi 1999)
0 - 100 m; possibly to 1193 m (multiple authors, cited in Calder 2010)
[Bougainvillea ramosa (synonymised taxon, with genus misspelled)] Present intertidally under surfaces of rocks, boulders and stones (Miller 1961)
[Bougainvillia ramosa (synonymised taxon)] Littoral to 80m (Hirohito 1988)
Non-native Salinity Range:
Native Abundance:
Abundant,
See details
Reproduction
Fertilization Mode:
See details
Reproduction Mode:
Gonochoristic/ dioecious
Spawning Type:
NA
Development Mode:
Lecithotrophic planktonic larva (non-feeding)
Asexual Reproduction:
Budding/fragmentation (Splitting into unequal parts. Buds may form on the body of the “parentâ€)
Reproduction Details:
Reproduces asexually by budding, and sexually (Lee II & Reusser 2012)
Sexual reproduction: medusae break free from the colony to join the plankton to generate gametes. Asexual reproduction: free stolons break free and settle on new substrates to establish new colonies; can also bud new basal stolons (Griffith & Newberry 2008)
Gonophores free medusae (Calder 2010)
RELATED:
[Obelia sp. as a representative example of class Hydrozoa] Medusae have separate sexes. Males release sperm; eggs are fertilized while still in the gonads. Planula lavae (Kozloff 1990) *Note: entered as lecithotrophic because planula larvae are non-feeding and planktonic; other sources for Obelia spp. contradict where eggs are fertilized (see two Obelia entries)
Adult Mobility:
Sessile
Adult Mobility Details:
[Bougainvillea ramosa (synonymised taxon, with genus misspelled)] Sessile and attached to hard substrate (Macdonald et al. 2010)
Sessile (Piola & Hopkins 2012)
Maturity Size:
Colonies are 5 cm high (Hayes et al. 2005)
Always found fertile; specimens were 4 to 10 cm high (Morri & Bianchi 1999)
Maturity Age:
[Hawaii] Medusae reached maturity after 4 days at 21 ºC (Calder 2010)
Reproduction Lifespan:
RELATED:
[Bougainvillia nana] Female medusae live for up to 47 days (average of 30 days), while males live no more than 15 days, at 17 ºC (Denitto et al. 2007)
Longevity:
[Bermuda] No medusae lived longer than 3.5 days at 28-29 ºC (Calder 1988, cited in Calder 2010)
Broods per Year:
NF
Reproduction Cues:
NF
Reproduction Time:
[Sea of Japan] [Bougainvillia ramosa (synonymised taxon)] Settling larvae and vegetation of colonies was observed from July - September (Chaplygina 1993, cited in Chaplygina 2006)
Fecundity:
NF
Egg Size:
RELATED:
[Bougainvillia bitentaculata] Unfertilized eggs from Matsushima, northern Honshu, Japan were 86-128µm in diameter (106 ± 10µm) and that of from Toba, central Honshu were 88-106 µm in diameter (102±4.7µm). (Kubota & Hirota 1995)
Egg Duration:
NF
Early Life Growth Rate:
Newly liberated medusae 0.6-0.7 mm high and 0.5-0.6 mm wide; ~1 mm high and wide at 1 day old; ~1.3 mm high and wide at three days old (Calder 2010)
Adult Growth Rate:
[Sea of Japan] [Bougainvillia ramosa (synonymised taxon)] Samples from piers were 3 - 4 cm in July, and grew up to 8 - 13 cm by September (Chaplygina 2006)
[Hawaii] Medusae produced gonads two days after liberation at 21 ºC (Calder 2010)
[Bermuda] Medusae produced gonads two days after liberation at 28-29 ºC (Calder 1988, cited in Calder 2010)
Population Growth Rate:
NF
Population Variablity:
NF
Habitat
Ecosystem:
Sediment subtidal, SAV,
Rocky intertidal,
Oyster reef,
Mussel reef, Macroalgal beds, Fouling,
Water column, Flotsam
Habitat Type:
Pelagic, Epibenthic, Epizoic,
Epiphytic,
Under rock
Substrate:
Mud, Sand, Mixed fine sediment, Gravel, Cobble, Rock, Biogenic, Artificial substrate
Exposure:
Exposed, Protected
Habitat Expansion:
NF
Habitat Details:
Bays and harbours (Carlton 2007)
[Bougainvillea ramosa (synonymised taxon, with genus misspelled)] Epibenthic (Macdonald et al. 2010)
Coastal bay (semi-enclosed with full or close to ocean salinity), nearshore, shelf, and oceanic regimes. Unvegetated subtidal (estuarine or oceanic) soft sediment, including gravel/cobble; subtidal aquatic vegetation (SAV); rooted aquatic vegetation; oyster and mussel reefs; fouling; pelagic. Mixed sediments (mud/sand with gravel/cobble). Found on artificial substrates including pilings, hulls and ballast, and other materials. Lives submerged in the water column, epibenthically on consolidated substrate, epiphytically and epizoically (Lee II & Reusser 2012)
Lives on mussel shells (Cinar et al. 2008)
Grows among mussels and intergrows with Bugula sp. (Hayes et al. 2005)
[Bougainvillia ramosa (synonymised taxon)] Wharves (Chaplygina 2006)
[Bougainvillia ramosa (synonymised taxon)] Exposed littoral zone; mud and sand, often mixed (Hamond 1957)
Samples collected subtidally; some attached to a dock and others attached to red algae (Calder 2012)
[Bougainvillea ramosa (synonymised taxon, with genus misspelled)] Present intertidally under surfaces of rocks, boulders and stones; offshore on mixed coarse sand, shell debris and stones (Miller 1961)
[Aegean Sea] Grows on Sargassum acinarium and other algae; and oceanographic instruments (Morri & Bianchi 1999)
Growing on pontoons in a marina (Piola & Hopkins 2012)
Gonophores free medusae (Calder 2010)
Found on tsunami debris (Calder et al. 2014)
A large number of colonies of B. sp. are found on Sargassum sp. at Oura, Mitsu Bay, between July and August. (Kakinuma 1961)
Trophic Level:
Suspension feeder
Trophic Details:
[Bougainvillea ramosa (synonymised taxon, with genus misspelled)] Carnivorous; eats live zooplankton (predator); suspension/filter feeder that strains particles from the water (Macdonald et al. 2010)
Suspension-feeding predator (Lee II & Reusser 2012)
Suspension feeding (Griffith & Newberry 2008)
Predator (Marshalonis & Pinckney 2008)
Forage Mode:
Generalist
Forage Details:
RELATED:
[Hydroids] They consume completely small animals like small crustacea, mollusc, annelida and juvenile fish. (Uchida 1961)
Natural Control:
PARASITES
[Parasites] Pycnogonids associated with B.m. include: Tanstylum orbiculare, Anoplodactylus petiolatus (most common), Anoplodactylus stictus, and Endeis spinosa. Pycnogonid larvae can cause the deformation of the hydranths that they occupy (Genzano 2002)
PREDATION
[Bougainvillea ramosa (synonymised taxon; with genus misspelled)] [Predation] [Isle of Man] Eaten by the nudibranchs: Doto coronata, Trinchesia aurantia (Miller 1961)
RELATED:
PREDATION
[Hydroids] [Predation] Hydranths may be eaten by nudibranchs, pyconogonids, fish, and the polychaete Procerastea halleziana (Denny & Gaines 2007)
PARASITES
[Hydroids] [Parasites] Pycnogonid larvae may parasitize and develop in hydranths (Denny & Gaines 2007)
Associated Species:
PARASITES
[Parasites] Pycnogonids associated with B.m. include: Tanstylum orbiculare, Anoplodactylus petiolatus (most common), Anoplodactylus stictus, and Endeis spinosa. Pycnogonid larvae can cause the deformation of the hydranths that they occupy (Genzano 2002)
RELATED:
SYMBIONTS
[Hydroids] [Symbionts] Act as microhabitats for many other species, including other hydroids, gammarid amphiods, and mussel recruits (Denny & Gaines 2007)
PARASITES
[Hydroids] [Parasites] Pycnogonid larvae may parasitize and develop in hydranths (Denny & Gaines 2007)
References and Notes
References:
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See Denitto et al. (2007) for discussion of species synonomies and splits