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ZOOLOGIA
卷 27, 期 1, 页码 54-64出版社
SOC BRASILEIRA ZOOLOGIA, UNIV FEDERAL PARANA
DOI: 10.1590/S1984-46702010000100009
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Abundance; growth; intertidal zone; mortality
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- CNPq
- FAEPEX-UNICAMP
The population biology and production of the stout razor clam Tagelus plebeius Lightfoot, 1786 were investigated on an intertidal sandflat on the southeast coast of Brazil (Enseada Beach, Sao Sebastiao, state of Sao Paulo) between April 1997 and April 1998. Two rectangular sites of 50 X 10 m parallel to the waterline were established, site A (upper intertidal level) and site B (middle intertidal level), where the samples were taken in an 0.5 x 0.5 m quadrat. High abundances were recorded in winter and spring, with no significant differences between the sites. The high bivalve abundances were related to the presence of very fine homogeneous sediment with low salinities. Tagelus plebeius had negative allometric growth, characteristic of deep burrowers for the relationships DM/SL and AFDM/SL. Parameters of the modified von Bertalanffy growth function were: L-x = 67.01 mm, K = 1.73 year(-1), t(0) = -0.11 year, C = 0.43, WP = 0.96. The instantaneous mortality (Z) was 3.12 year(-1), relatively high in comparison to other tropical bivalve populations. Secondary production was 1.53 g AFDM m(-2) year(-1), with a P/B ratio reaching 1.37 year(-1). This high turnover ratio (P/B) was related to a rapid population replacement, connected with the short life span and high mortality of the species.
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