2*5-2*1 ttomtrtfcm »! ito IfyM Scteitf* »l £ #&. iiw4». UJttf). REPKODlO ION AND GROWTH OF THE SMOOTH PEBBLE CRAB PHILYRA LAEVIS (Bdl 18551 AT TWO SITES IN DURING 1990-91.

by stvphrn C. McKjllip* & Ruth v, McKtu lp

Summary

Ma.n un\ SX\ & M.KiLLtf, R, V, U994) Reproduction and growth ul Ihc- .smooth pebble crab Phihru hf\U (Hell hW> al two sites in South Australia during W90-91. 7/wjy. J?, -Sor. S-Ausi.. 11N|4/, 245-25K JQNlfttfctbw, W94. The growth and lite history ol the smooth pebble crab Wftprt l".\ (Be!!! wns interred irnm collection* rmidt! bi-iwecn July l$9fl and December |99] from Sultana Point ant] Coohowie. South Australia, fi feitfifJ appeared to be scmelp.irous and to reproduce twice a vc-ar at both sites. At Sultana hunt ovieeroiis females wen; common

in winter {June-July! and from late spring to late summer (November February' PswS WStfM* * efc" common from

late winter lo early sprints and also in early summer. Distinct coIhkls or new recruits were found in early spnne and again ip earlv summer. Recruits gre* i.ipidlv, reaching sexuaJ maturity within lour months. The mean sue populations tabontfory experiment of jutllll females and the proportion which were ovigeroas liiffered amongst A showed that food availability affected growth and whether females became oviperous. We postulate that differences availability food, in size and ovisery amonesi populations of Phdyra tuteis may be- caused by differences in the of

Krv Wciro.s Phthra. pebble crab, life history, intenidul, food, sandrlat

Introduction I he sandllat at Coohowie Nay, 10 km north of Sultana Point, was sampled in the same way but less frequently The smooth pebble crab. Philyra laevis (Bell 1855 K (November 1990 and January. Maah. April. August

IS common on sheltered intertidal sandflafs in southern and December 1991)

Western Australia. South Australia, Tasmania and P. laevis is active whilst the BOIKfflAI fc covered by Victoria (Phillips*^/. 19S4> Hale (1976) describes water during ebb and rising tides, bul remains buried the feeding and courtship behaviour of P faevi\, but in the substratum ul high water or when the sandflai

iixilc else is known about this crab. Tasmanun ts completely exposed (Hale 1976). At least 30 and populations hfffi laevis have been reported to host a usually more than 100 individuals were collected from ucmciteun (genus Caranonemertes) (Bell & Hickman within the interltdal zone where P, laevis occurred 1985) and the trcmatode Microphallus para^rapsi (from low water to about mid tidal level! between the Smith. 198-MBell I98S). From W90-9I wc sHidjed the time of low water and when the sandllat was mundated : feeding behaviour of Philyra laevis. finding that by The nstmj tide, At each site at least 160m of although individuals often fed upon other dead or substratum, consisting of .several haphazardly chosen damaged animals, many were unwilling to teed upon 0.5 metre wide strips from the waters edge lo mid tide members of their own species and that Water borne level, were hand searched to a depth of 3.5 cm, P. lathis cues from damaged P laevis inhibited feed me was found no tteeper than 3.0 em in the substratum (McKillup & McKillup 1992). During the study, we (McKillup & McKillup unpubl.j. Crabs were frozen collected P laevis over an J8-month period from two and later examined tor sex. whether females were sites 10 kilometres apart in South Australia, and also ovujerous. and the carapace width of all individuals sampled 10 other southern Australian sites. These data. was measured to the nearest 005 mm. logelhei with results of a laboratory feeding

experiment, are used lo infer the lite history o\' P laevis. Reproductive tottddion and average size oj adid; females at additional sites Methods During January and February 1991, at least 73 Sampli/ix of Philyra laevis /row Sultana P>int and Philvra laevis were collected from each of 11 sites m Coohowie South Australia and one in Victoria (Swan Bay within Samples, of Philvra laevis were collected from the Port Philip Bay), and examined tor sex. sue and mtcrlidal sandflat at Sultana Point, lower Yorkc reproductive state as described previously. Peninsula, South Australia <35.0X°S 137 44°P.> in July

I9'M). and then approximately every four weeks from hihoratnry e.vperitnent on sexual development and September 1990 to August V991 and in Decembei 1991. growth Abdominal morphology in the Crustacea can usually * Department of Zoology, LruverMlv OS Adelaide, South be useo to determine sex: adult males often have a 5005 Australia, Australia, relatively narrow, concave sided and tapered abdomen. * Present uddre^ Depart meni of Biologs, Central whilst leiualcs have hroader and often circulat ()ueen.dund Universitv. Rockhampton, Queensland 4-702 a Australia abdomen almost as wide as the carapace (Hannoll "Md -. ' McKH.l |JP (& R V M.hlLLUf

after 15 min. This method ot feeding prevented the scawaiet in ihe permanent dishes from hecomlne

fouled; it was replaced lorinighlly. Crabs wen* inspecled on every working day. individuals which had moulted were examined and sexed as either male lemule or intermediates, .md ,my which had i limbed out were replaced m their dishes. The experiment began on April 2nd 1991 using new

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I982i I 'us was the case lor all i'ltilvnt W'7,, wilh carapaces wider than US mm, hul three morphological Results type;-, were found in crabs 13,5 mm wide or smaller Ihc two previously described forms, plus individuals $atnp/itix $( Philyra laevis fnun Sultana hunt cW

with a convex sided abdomen which, ai its' widest ( rHfhnutr

point was approximately hall'the width of the carapace the frfe& structure of Ihc population a(Pli!l\ra hirvi\ if ig I) The last dewiibcel individuals were named al Sultana Point from July 1990 to December 1991 i-

'intermediates , illusiraied in Figs 2. 3. In midwinter (July 1990), all

The growth of 20 females, 20 unci mediates and 20 males were at leasl 8 5 mm wide, all lemales :it least males all of carapace width 10.5 mm or less, wa- 15 mm wide jihI 93% tit tire killer were ovigcrous, Observed in the laboratory Considering thai vw also By early sprine (September 1990), dead males and tumid differences m ilk- si/c and proportion of adull females wen. extremely common and large live lemales which were ovigcrous amongst sites, and thai individuals were not: almost half of the live males

differences in adull si/e amongst iunspcedledi collected were smaller than 8 5 mm and appeareti to a) lUjj i lies were also reported by Hule (1976), be ,1 dimmer cohort of recent recruits. Only iwo live observation* were made as pail of a manipulative adull females were found; both were more than 75 mm laboratory experiment designed !o examine the effects wide and ovigcrous. The rcmamdei of the sample ol lutid availability upon growl h and egg production consisted of "intermediates" 7.5 mm W'idc or smaller of Mfilvtit /tun:,. Crabs were placed individually in which were no! present in the July sample. A

SO \ 50 v _s() mm deep plastic dishes, caeh tilled ft ith lahoraiory experimenl showed lhat intermediates wen 10 ml n\ seawaiti, All individuals were numbered on juvenile lemales (see below). In mid-spring (October the dorsal side or their carapace with non tovu. I990J only one cohort of males was present, and thesv vvaicrproof ink- Six dishes, containing two mules, two malcis were large: than the recruits first seen m fhc females and two intermediates were placed within each previous month The juvenile females were also larger of 10 lidded 280 x 3K0 :•: ilO mm deep p|.,-ai.. trays and some relatively small adull females were preseni. containing seawatcr to a depth ol 10 mm. Aeration was bul none whs ovigerotis, In late spring (Novcrnhci not needed The seawaler in the trays maintained a high 1990), uo juvenile females were found; the sample level nf humidity whn. h reduced evaporation I'rom the consisted ol aduh females al leasi 9,5 mm wide. 89$ dishes and also provided a marine environment for the of which were ovigcrous, plus males from 4,5 |o

i, W i r.ihs which ClTirUtPd out during the cxpeiimcnl. 18,5 mm wide. In early summer (Dccembci WOi Trays were kepi at mum temperature and ualurul day anolher cohort of relatively small males was present length. together with a cohort of luvemle females up to 9:3 mm rive traV$ were assigned randomly to a "high food" wide. Dead adults were again common, but live adults treatment and the M) crabs within these were fed every were also found and 7KV of adult females were working das (from Monday lo Friday), whilst the 30 ovigcrous^ The small nudes and juvenile lemales nabs in the oilier five" (rays were led wcekh. on continued to grow through summer and autumn

Wednesday-, .is .. "hiw ffati* treatment. Dil'IcrciU (January lo April 1991) and the number of ovigcrous frequencies of ieeding provide different levels of food adult females declined (30aV-v. in January. 14% m ilVdlkblllty I" mverlcbajiest.;,^. Calow 1973; Monarly February and 5Vr m March). Prom mid to late- W7S), For each Ieeding the ^ix crabs in a tray were autumn (April and May 1991.1 no juvenile females were removed placed in sis separate dishes used for feeding found and oniy 1.5% and 2% respectively of aduh

only BJld offered od libitum ciushed cockle. Knleh'sio females were ovigcrous, but in early wintet (June I99l}« \ifihtrhui fut'viv is r Lamarck from Sultana Pomi P the percentage ol ovigcrous females had risen lo 6X , often found feeding on this bivalve in (he field and further increased lw 94% by late winter (July 1991) INK K.llupcv- McMlup 1992) All c.at-s leO fot 12 min The early spring (August 1991) sample was very similm or less and wen:- returned (o their permanent dishes lo dial of September 1990; dead adult males and ^ P

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(emales were common and the sample oflivc Philxra cohort of juvenile females present in early autumn Uu'Vts consisted entirely of juvenile females less than (March 17th 1991) was larger than in January and most K.5 rum wide and males which were almost all smaller appeared to have moulted to adults by April 13th 1991, than those collected during the previous month. The In late winter (August 18th 1991) dead adults were December 1991 sample was similar to the one ftom common and juvenile females plus small males were the previous December, consisting of adult males plus present. Jn early summer (December I9lh 1991) dead adult and some juvenile females, with h$% of adult adults were also found, very lew live adult females females ovigerous. Dead adults were again common were present and juvenile females were common.

OTI the sandtlat at Sultana Point in December 1991 The mean carapace width of adult females was The data for were consistent with those always greater at Sultana Point than Coobowie (Table

from Sultana Point. In late spring (November 20th 1) and a greater proportion of adult females was 1990) only males and adult females were found, but ovigerous at Sultana Point than Coobowie on five in mid summer (January 19th 1991) juvenile lemales occasions when comparison was possible (Table 2). were also present and dead males and adult females Males were not compared since it was impossible to were common. The average carapace width of the distinguish between juveniles and adults.

TahlI: I. Comparison of the mean carapace width (in mm) of adult female Philyra lacvis /row Coobowie and Sultana Point tin November ctdicelions were made 17 dcivs apart; rth the other 5 accnstotis crabs were Ci>liected front both sites ^>n tin same day, \ — mean, s ~ standard deviation and n — somple size

Site Coobowie Sultana Point Dale collected \

November 1990 33 9.23 2.37 125 13.17 2.02

19 Junuurv 1991 17 12,74 1.75 49 13.19 1 73

17 March 1991 52 12.62 1 42 71 13.68 1.72 13 April 1991 85 13.18 f.75 65 14.19 1.77 18 August ISBN 7? 11-82 1.94 none louml -ii 19 December 1991 4 11.72 1.72 13.50 1.83

Tabu; 2. Hie number of adult female Philyra lacvis and those twigerous in samples atlleeted from Coobowie and Sultana Point on 6 occasnm,\ during the same month. The Nttvemhtr colleetnms were made 17 days apart; on the other 5 tteeastons crabs were collected from both sites on the same day.

Site Coobowie Sultana Point Date collected Collected Ovigerous Collected Ovigerous

November 1990 128 19 January 1991 5 49 3 17 March 1991 52 71 4 13 April 1991 89 (1 65 2 18 August 1991 22 15 19 December 1991 9 22 14

1 abu 3. 77u' percentage ofovfgerous adult female Philyra lacvis at 12 sites sampled during January and February 199J, together with the mean carapace width of adult females from each site.

Number rff Number and Mean carapace mature lemales percentage width of Date sampled Site collected ovigerous females (mm)

19 January 1991 Bay 9 tUj 12.67 19 January 1991 Sultana Point 49 15 (3D 13.19 (9 January 1991 Coobowie 17 (0) 12.74 •% !9 January 1991 Hickey's Point 25 (8) 13.10 19 January 1991 Staii^bury 33 7 (21) 14 35 20 January 1991 Pmnl Turum 3 14.83 20 January 1991 Rogues Point sn 6 (7) 13.90

29 January 1991 James Well 20 1 en 12.65

29 January 1991 Pine Poml 23 1 (4) 12.33 2 Fehruary 1991 Foul Buy 87 t0) I3.S9 2 February 1991 Stun Bay 70 10 (Mi I3.lt) 13 February 1991 Swan Bay (Vic. ft 56 (85) 17.46 »

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Rcprofhifiin- condition and avenj^ Kite rffoftfttlts iff reached sevual maturity and reproduced from late addifiomd tfWJ spring to laic summer (November 1990 lo February

Data for the numbei of adult females c* 'I Iceted and 1991). while those first lound in early .umnier the number and percentage whiih weiv OVigafOOg lb) (IXxcmbct I'WO) reached sexual maturity by nud 12 populations .sampled in mid lo lute summer 1991 autumn (April 1991) and reproduced until early winter L are in Table 5; The percentage of ovigerous females (June l )91> Data from Coobowie were consistent with decreased at Suliana Point from January to February, this pattern of recruitment, but suggest that many adult ...onlv samples collected on ihc 19- 20th January 1991 P ldfvi\ at Coobowie did not reproduce in the summer woe compared statistically- Nevertheless, the of 1990-01, although daUi were scanty, being onl v ft proportion ovigerous difleicd significantly amongst the November 1990 and January 1991 seven sites sampled on lower Yorkc Peninsula \Z& ' Recruits were found one month after reproducing contingency tabic comparison, di * — 6. Chi squared females were present in laic spring and two momh

StttlSti* - 122$ ?<> (MlllSj The :• igMt'u. ..." alter they wvre present in early wuitei. Considering heterogeneity amongst sites was largely due to Ihc that Ihe sandflal was only sampled monthly, that the greater proportion of ovigerous lemales at Sultana Ppmi smallest crab found was 2.8 mm (McKillup & fiable 11 c'uiv-.dering all sites sampled, the highest McKillup unpubl.) and that smaller individuals Were

percentage ol ovigerous aduh females (KV* > was at likely tii be overlooked amongst sand grains ami

Swan Hay, Vm*h iu dimng earlv Fchruaiy (when only detritus, the larval stage o\ R iacvi,^ is likely to bt- of

I If were omgcjous at Sultana Poinl, see earlier relatively short duration (perhaps only 1-2 weeks) discussion oi Figure 1). The Swan Ray population also Another member of the same genus, this purse crab contained ihc largest Phi/yru (oca. lotind Philvra globnsa (Fabricius), has a larval stage lastim-

Furthermore t-u the seven site-, sampled Horn the II Jays in (he laboratory at an average temperature ot 19 20th )anuary (excluding Point Turton where only 2K°C (Knshnan &. Kannupandi 1990). three lemales wen? collected), ovigerous females were The moult from juvenile to adult form in females lound onlv at sues where the average carapace widlJi appears to coincide with sexual maturity, since only

.»! Imiales was greater than LV00 mm (Table 3)- iwo females with juvenile abdomens of more than M'H) examined were "vigerous (McKillup & McKillup

1 hthontutn vyu ntneor on wxml dwe\tipw?m unpubl.). A relative Cnon allomelrie ') increase in Male, adult lemale and intermediate** Phdxm Uu>vt\ abdomen compared to carapace width during the moult ottered food on live of seven days per week, moulted lo adulthood is common in braehyurans (Hartnoll

SOOncr ttalfl (hose only \h\ once per week ( Fable 4j, 1974),

At then first moult in the laboratory all males moulted For sites sampled I mm the l9-20lh January 1991. in males, all lemales lo females and all mlennediaLes a greater proportion of ovigerous adult females was to females, except for the two smallest which remained present where the mean carapace width of females was as the intermediate form unril they moulted again. In relatively large Also, there was a greater proportion all cases the variance of days elapsing before moulting ofovigerous lemales at Sultana Point than Coobowie was grealci in the low food treatment, and by on all occasions when comparison was possible. inspection the distributions in ihis treatment w«nc Differences amongst sites were nut caused simply bv .skewed lo the fight. None of the adult females in ihc larger lemales being more likely lo he ovigerous; low lood rrentment, but all in the high food treatment examination of the data used to compile Tabic 2 showed were ovigerous by July ls>9l thai in November, 60 of n9 adult females between 8 and P mm wide were ovigerous at .Sultana Point. b..i Discussion none ot 19 collected on the same date and within the

Pbiivni fai'vts reproduced twice a year at Sultana same size range was ovigerous al Coobowie n Point ami death of most adults during the breeding I -Lirthcnnore- on January l th KJ9L none of the 17 aduh moudis suggests Otis species is largely sciiielptirous temates collected from Coobowie was ovnierous. eve-n kLvniit;. found in caily spring (September 1990 though the carapace widths of these individuals were

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Makb il) >A 10 _V78 10 3s> 10 17,10 [•iii;ile i lit 23.5 7 38 LQ 45 20 25.31 h'i.. r0ttJifllr$ itt '' (in ill 79 to 3H 10 ,

KI-PR(HHH_TION AND GROWTH (>!• WWYKt J,Mtl\ Si within the si/e range of the 15 ovigerous females available lo \. paupciuius at Coobowic than al .Suliana

l collected from Sultana Poim. Similarly, on December Point (MeK. Hup & B u ,| cr 1979, l JS3: McKillup lOKet) 17th M)l, none ol o adult females from Coobovvie was P'urthermore. we have wore recently postulated that

<>\ Igtja&USj even 'hough mk were within the va;- range intenidal scavengers may generall> be short of food of ovigerous females rrom .Suliana Point. (McKillup & McKillup |W)- All Suuih Aiistialun Results of the laboratory experiment were consistent populations o\ P liwvis sampled contained snialici with food supply allcctmg the frequency oi inoulimp. females on average ihan the population al Swan Ray

A sample tfl crabs will contain individuals at different Victoria, .suggesiing that food availability may bi Mages of the moult cycle In the low lood group, crabs limiting the growth and reproduction of man} aboul to moult would have done so soon after the populations, of this scavenger Numbly, lentales i>| experiment began, hut those which had moulted shortly another leucosiid crab. Hbuiia Javvi.s (Bell, I855] wen before being collected would have lo prepare to moult only found oAigerous during Decemhet. Januaiv. May again under the laboratory conditions of low linni and August at Wellington, New Zealand, but records availability, In contrast, in the high lood group. crab> from other localities suggest the duration Of ibC prepared to moult would do so. and others which had reproductive season vanes amongsl siLes (Wear k recently moulted would have adequate resources Fielder WS5J. available to jjrow and moult again This can explain The hypotheses that differences in food avuilabilav the greater mean, variance and positive skew m the a,rO limiting the duration of the reproductive period t$ number o! days before moulting in the low compared Pfuhra Uh'Vi> and that individuals in natural io the high food irealnicni iTahlc 4i. populations of this species ate short of h)ud could be We suggest, for the following reasons, that tested b> frequently feeding marked individuals in the differenees in si/c and the proportion oi ovigerous adult field and comparing their growth and reproductive females amongst sites were caused by differences m output with the icM of the population, the results ol food availability Firstly, in (he laboratory, crabs ;n lite these experiments may explain vvny Philxni /t/ev/.v fob high food treatment moulted sooner (and iherelure a relatively short lifespan and two seasonally opposed iirew faster) than those in the low looJ treatment and breeding seasons in South Australia. only females in the high food treatment pnxJuced vgjjv

Secondly, adull female P. lacvis al Coobovvie were Acknowledgments consistently .smaller than those at Sultana Point The inlcrtida! scavenger NffltSttiiUS fnmpa'tiitts (Lamarck). We wish to thanktiianK Alan Bullettsuiiei and KeithKciin Walkerwalker for a prosohranch snail which occupies a similar niehe and uien(heir ciiLuuiaucuiirmencouragementcement duringum mii theincstudy, suiuv. anduqg~ manAlan Btulerotuiei

• is often found feeding with Philyru Uwvi.s, is also Michael f'Vih'i.Coates,es, n<-MtVinHon p|olttakd*iOi*iHeidei W\andtuui MkaAlleeI u -t WolkWells for ilioiitheir

smaller (and hungrier) at Coobovvie than at Sultana critical and eonsliucliveonsliuclive commentscoiituteiU.s on a diall 0| IheI he

Point's and we have postulated there is less food manuscript

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