Epi- and endobiont faunal communities on an Egyptian Mediterranean rocky shore: species composition and their competition for space

Magdy EL HEDENY; Mohamed RASHWAN; Sebastián RICHIANO; Saleh AL FARRAJ; Ghada AL BASHER

doi:10.1007/s00343-020-9281-8

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Epi- and endobiont faunal communities on an Egyptian Mediterranean rocky shore: species composition and their competition for space

Ecology | Updated：2023-05-20

- Epi- and endobiont faunal communities on an Egyptian Mediterranean rocky shore: species composition and their competition for space
- Journal of Oceanology and Limnology Vol. 39, Issue 1, Pages: 198-207(2021)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, Alexandria University, Alexandria 21568, Egypt
  2.Department of Biological and Geological Sciences, Faculty of Education, Alexandria University, Alexandria 14037, Egypt
  3.Instituto Patagónico de Geología y Paleontología (CONICET-CENPAT), Puerto Madryn 9120, Argentina
  4.Department of Zoology, College of Sciences, King Saud University, P.O. Box 2455, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia
- Author bio：
  
  Magdy EL HEDENY, E-mail:mmelhedeny@gmail.com
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- DOI：10.1007/s00343-020-9281-8
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- Received：22 October 2019，
  
  Accepted：07 February 2020，
  
  Online First：23 February 2020，
  
  Published：2021-01
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Magdy EL HEDENY, Mohamed RASHWAN, Sebastián RICHIANO, et al. Epi- and endobiont faunal communities on an Egyptian Mediterranean rocky shore: species composition and their competition for space[J]. Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 2021, 39(1): 198-207.
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Magdy EL HEDENY, Mohamed RASHWAN, Sebastián RICHIANO, et al. Epi- and endobiont faunal communities on an Egyptian Mediterranean rocky shore: species composition and their competition for space[J]. Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 2021, 39(1): 198-207. DOI： 10.1007/s00343-020-9281-8.

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Abstract

The exposed calcareous rocky area of the Abu Qir Headland

east of Alexandria

Egypt which range from coarse grains

through pebbles

cobbles

and boulders to rocky platforms

was significantly colonized by sclerobionts (epibionts and endobionts). The epibiont species diversity was comparatively higher than that of endobionts. Epibiont communities included bryozoans (the anascan-grade cheilostome

Biflustra savartii

)

serpulid (

Hydroides elegans

Spirobranchus

cf.

tetraceros

Vermiliopsis striaticeps

and

Protula

Apomatus

) and spirorbid (

Spirorbis

) wormtubes

and balanoid barnacles (

Amphibalanus

amphitrite

Balanus trigonus

and

Perforatus perforatus

). The cheilostome bryozoan colonies

which developed extensive sheets

proliferated on the study rocky shore either encrusting the bioeroded basement directly

or encrusting other epilithic taxa

particularly balanoid barnacles and serpulid worms. Encrusters displayed a remarkable marginal competitive interaction (overgrowth and stand-off) for space on the study rocky shore. On the other hand

endobionts were not well represented on the studied rocky shore exposure. It was possible to identify three ichnotaxa:

Gastrochaenolites

Maeandropolydora

and

Finichnus

. The findings documented represent a significant contribution to our knowledge of sclerobionts composition

sequence of their colonization and/or bioerosion

and their mutual relationships on the intertidal rocky shore of the Abu Qir Headland.

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