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Bivalvia, Mytilidae) 1 Some Aspects of the Biology, Population Dynamics, and Functional Morphology of Musculista senhausia Benson (Bivalvia, Mytilidae) 1 BRIAN MORTON 2 THE MYTILACEA with the Dreissenacea are In Asia Museulisla senhausia Benson is perhaps the most specialized and most suc­ also a fouling organism (Kawahara 1961) cessful heteromyarian bivalves. Their simi­ and has been introduced into the United larity is probably not phylogenetic, as sug­ States (Smith 1944, Hanna 1966). In China gested by Purchon and Brown (1969), but is the species serves as a source of food and the result of convergence and the adoption attempts have been made to culture them of similar habits (Yonge and Campbell artificially (Cheung et al. 1962). Little in­ 1968). Thus, the European dreissenid formation, however, is available in the pub­ Dreissena po/ymorpha and the Asian lished literature on the biology of this ani­ mytilid Limnoperna forlunei have both mal. Accordingly, a study has been under­ adopted a mode of life involving the coloni­ taken of the functional morphology of the zation of hard surfaces in fresh waters (Mor­ animal and the biology and population ton 1969a in press). dynamics of a colony occurring in Tai Tam The evolution of the heteromyarian con­ Bay, Hong Kong. The results of this inves­ dition in these bivalve lines probably pro­ tigation are reported here. ceeded from different isomyarian ancestors, with the neotenous retention of the larval byssus by the adult (Yonge 1962). This pro­ DISTRIBUTION AND HABITS cess, occurring in shallow coastal waters, must have enabled the ancestors of Museu/iSla senhausia forms large col­ modern-day species initially to colonize the onies in intertidal mud flats in many parts of intertidal zone. Here the Mytilacea have the Far East. The type locality is Chusan, been extremely successful and inhabit rocky China. Cheung et al. (1962) reported it as shores the world over. Other mytilids may being of very wide distribution in the west­ be found sublittorally, e.g., Crenella ern Pacific and recorded it from the South (Soot-Ryen 1955); in estuaries, e.g., China Sea, the East China Sea, the Yellow Xenoslrobus (Wilson 1967); in fresh waters, Sea, and the Sea of Japan. It has been re­ e.g., Limnoperna (Morton, in press); and ported from Japan and Singapore by Kira even as highly specialized commensals, e.g., (1961) and Chuang (1961), respectively. Fungiaeava (Goreau et al. 1969). The Dreis­ In Tai Tam Bay, Hong Kong, the animal senacea by contrast have not undergone this was found in a dense colony at around mid­ 2 extensive adaptive radiation and are re­ tide level in numbers of up to 2,500/m • The stricted to estuaries, e.g., Congeria (Wolff animal lies buried vertically in the mud, an­ 1969) and fresh waters, e.g., Dreissena chored in position by a well-developed bys­ (Morton 1969a). Within their spheres of in­ sus. The byssus is also woven into a nest in fluence, however, both of these bivalve which the animal is almost completely en­ lines cause problems as fouling organisms, closed (Fig. 1). Such a habit is unusual in the e.g., Dreissena (Morton 196ge) and Mylilus Bivalvia, although it occurs in a few other (Haderlie 1968). mytilid genera such as Modiolus and Amygdalum (Soot-Ryen 1955). The process of nest building in Musculus and Lima has been reported upon by Merrill and Turner I Manuscript received 15 May 1973. 2Department of Zoology, The University of Hong (1963). The similarity of the nest of Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong. M useulisla to that ofMusculus suggests that 19 20 PACIFIC SCIENCE, Volume 28, January 1974 serves as a matrix stabilizing the particles. In Hong Kong the same species has col­ onized wooden test panels suspended 3 to 4 meters in the sea. Such animals did not build a nest as do their littoral counterparts. Sig­ nificantly, Hanna (1966) found specimens with no nests living attached to pilings in San Francisco Bay. Furthermore, the related M uscullls discors has been reported to be an intertidal species by Tebble (1966), whereas Merrill and Turner (1963) have reported it as living sublittorally. FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY Shell and Ligament The shell ofM IIsculista senhausia (Fig. 2) is equivalve and heteromyarian. It is a dull olive green in color but above the umbonal keel is delicately patterned with 15 to 16 radiating brown stripes, originating at the umbo. One ofthe central stripes is typically thicker than the others. Irregular vertical bands of brown pigment also pattern the FIG. I. Mllsclliis/{/ sen!l{/lIsi{/. A diagrammatic rep­ shell. Internally the same patterning can be resentation of the animal in its nest in the mud. The distinguished. The blue-white nacre of the positions of the inhalant and exhalant currents are also interior is uniformly distributed. indicated. The outer periostracallayer of the shell is smooth, shiny, and thin. The umbones are they are constructed in a similar manner. subterminal and the dorsal ligamental mar­ The byssal threads are not attached to the gin is straight or at most only slightly shell but initially to sand grains, thereby curved. The ventral margin of the shell is forming an anchor. Thereafter, further slightly concave. The anterior region of the byssal threads are wrapped around the shell shell is somewhat inflated, rounded, and dis­ and attached to sand grains, thereby forming tinctly crenulate. There are no hinge teeth the nest itself. Unlike the nest of Musculus and no byssal notch. (Merrill and Turner 1963), that ofMusculista The internal opisthodetic ligament (Fig. has a permanent posterior aperture. 2B, L) commences anterior to a number of The shores of Tai Tam are characteristi­ weak crenulations reminiscent of the much cally composed of coarse sand. A few cen­ more pronounced crenulations of Septifer timeters below the colony a similar coarse (Yonge and Campbell 1968). The ligament is sand is found. Only the surface material is composed oftwo layers with similar staining composed of fine mud. There was no evi­ reactions to that ofMytilus edlllis (Trueman dence of empty shells of past generations of 1950, Beedham 1958). The outer layer stains M usculista, either bound up in the colony or red and the inner layer blue with both in the underlying sand. The colony was Mallory's triple stain and Masson's tri­ probably a newly formed one and mucus­ chrome. Other mytilids-for example, bound feces and pseudofeces produced by Modiolus, Lithophaga (Yonge 1955), the colony were likely responsible for the Sept(fer (Yonge and Campbell 1968), and creation of the mud flat. The byssal nest Limnoperna (Morton, in press)- also pos- Museu/ista senhallsia Benson-MoRTON 2\ 3mm~ PBR (1) PBR (2) FIG.2. MIIsCIIlis!a sellhallsia. External and internal views of A, the right shell valve and B, the left shell valve, respectively. ABBREVIATIONS USED IN FIGS. 2,4,5,6, AND 7: A, a cell layer of style sac; AA, anterior adductor muscle; ABR, anterior byssal retractor muscle; A P, appendix; AU, auricle; B, byssus; B" B, cell layer (minor typhlosolel ofstyle sac; BG, byssal gland; BS, branchial septum; C, C cell layer ofstyle sac; CI, cilia; CS, crystalline style; 0, o cell layer of style sac; DO, digestive diverticula; DOD 1-5, ducts of the digestive diverticula opening into the stomach; DH, dorsal hood; DHT, dorsal hood tract; OS, dorsal septum; ES, exhalant siphon; F, foot; Fe, food-sorting cecum; GS, gastric shield; G U, gutter ofstyle sac; lA, inhalant aperture; 10, innerdemibranch; IG, intestinal groove of major typhlosole; IP, inner labial palp; L, ligament; LP, left pouch; LT, left duct tract; M F, point of ventral mantle fusion; MG, midgut; MIG, intestinal groove of minor typhlosole; MM, mantle margin; MT, minor typhlosole; 0, oesophagus; 00, outer demibranch; OP, outer labial palp; OY, ovary; PA, posterior adductor muscle; PBR (I) (2), posterior byssal retractor muscles; PL, pallial line; PPR, posterior pedal retractor muscle; R, rectum; RP, right pouch; RT, right duct tract; SP, sensory papillae; SS, style sac; T, major typhlosole; U, umbo; US, unsolidified style material; Y, ventricle. 22 PACIFIC SCIENCE, Volume 28, January 1974 sess a ligament with a similar structure; it is of three layers. The outer layer achieves a significant that in all of these genera and in thickness of 7.5 I.t and stains pink in Museulista senhausia the periostracum ex­ Mallory's triple stain and Masson's tri­ tends over the ligament. Such an ar­ chrome. The middle layer is only 5 I.t in rangement must, therefore, be typical ofthe thickness and is composed of a yellowish Mytilacea in general. substance that is unaffected by the routine The overall dimensions of the shell are stains used in this study. An inner laminated regular for the population of M. senhausia layer ultimately achieves a thickness of25 I.t sampled from Tai Tam Bay, a fact which is and stains blue with Masson's and most clearly demonstrated by the ratio of Mallory'S stains. The structure of the width: height: length, which is: 1 : 1.28 ± periostracum and of the epithelium that se­ 0.15 : 2.65 ± 0.35. The ratios of shell width: cretes the component layers bears a close length, shell height: length and shell width: similarity to those possessed by Mytilus height have been calculated as being 0.38 ± (Beedham 1958) and Limnoperna (Morton, 0.04, 0.49 ± 0.04, and 0.78 ± 0.08, respec­ in press). tively. The dorsal region of each mantle lobe The shell ofM. Senhausia is thin as com­ contains, as in other mytilids, much of the pared with a number of other Hong Kong gonadial tissue. The sexes are separate, and mytilids from a variety ofhabitats (Table 1).
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