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Some Aspects of the Anatomy, Reproduction, and Early Development of Cerithium Nodulosum (Bruguiere) (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia)1 JOSEPH R

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Some Aspects of the Anatomy, Reproduction, and Early Development of Cerithium Nodulosum (Bruguiere) (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia)1 JOSEPH R Some Aspects of the Anatomy, Reproduction, and Early Development of Cerithium nodulosum (Bruguiere) (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia)1 JOSEPH R. HOUBRICK2 ALTHOUGH MEMBERS of the prosobranch genus reef shelves, occurring subtidally on rocky, sandy Cerithium occur in abundance throughout the substrates just shoreward of the reef edge. A warm, shallow, tropical waters of the world, total of 16 specimens collected from Japtan little is known of their general ecology or life Reef had a mean length of 101 mm; the popu­ histories (Anderson, 1960). For the most part, lation consisted of 14 females and two males only brief reports or notes have been published with no sexual dimorphism evident in radulae, on the reproduction and early development of shell size, or sculpture. Cerithium species, namely C. vulgatum (Lo­ Although Risbec (1943) discussed the gen­ Bianco, 1888), C. ferrugineum (Lebour, 1945), eral anatomy of C. nodulosum, he did not ex­ C. obeliscus (Ostergaard, 1950), C. morus (Na­ amine the pallial genital ducts in detail nor did tarajan, 1958), C. atratum (Marcus and Marcus, he observe any males. Freshly dissected males 1964), C. algicola (Davis, 1967), C. variabile which I examined had bright orange testes and (RaeiWe, 1968), C. stercusmuscarum (Wolf­ their sperm ducts were packed with both eu­ son, 1969), and C. litteratum and C. auricoma pyrene and apyrene sperm. The pallial genital (D'Asaro, 1970). ducts were open and consisted of lateral (left) The evidence at hand (Sunderbrink, 1929; and medial (right) laminae which were fused Risbec, 1943; Johansson, 1947, 1953, 1956; dorsally to each other and to the mantle. The Marcus and Marcus, 1964) indicates that mem­ dosed sperm duct terminated in the pocketlike bers of this genus are aphallic; have open, pal­ proximal portion of the pallial genital groove. lial, genital ducts; lay their eggs, either as a This area was thick and glandular and probably tangled mass or a flattened coil, in gelatinous functioned as a prostate. Beyond the prostate strings or filaments attached to a substratum; area the genital groove extended forward as a and hatch out as planktotrophic veligers. slitlike channel open to the mantle cavity. The I wish to express my appreciation to Dr. epithelial lining of the inner walls of the lam­ Philip Helfrich of the Hawaii Institute of inae was thrown into small folds extending Marine Biology for his suggestion to use the distally. These folds appeared to be somewhat Eniwetok Marine Biological Laboratory for this glandular but not as highly developed as those work. of the proximal portion of the genital groove. Ripe females had bright yellow ,ovaries which ANATOMY were filled with ova and ooeytes. The oviduct (0, Fig. 1)' was a closed tube leading into the C. nodulosum is the largest species in the proximal portion of the open pallial duct. The genus and occurs throughout the Indo-Pacific general morphology of the female pallial re­ region, but not in Southern Japan or Hawaii productive tract was found to be similar to that (Demond, 1957). I studied it at Eniwetok described for males except that the laminae Atoll, Marshall Islands, during August 1970, were larger and more glandular with a thinner where it is moderately common on the windward nonglandular portion along the edge of the 1 Support for this work was provided by the U.S. medial lamina. The proximal end of the ovidu­ Atomic Energy Commission through the University of cal groove (og, Fig. 1) which constitutes the Hawaii and the Eniwetok Marine Biological Labora­ albumen gland (ag, Fig. 1) was thick and the tory. Manuscript received March 11, 1971. epithelial lining of the inner walls of the 2 Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian Oceano­ graphic Sorting Center, Washington, D.C. 20560. laminae was somewhat flat, with little evidence 560 Some Aspects of Cerithi11m nodulosum-HouBRlcK 561 of folds. Distal to this was a glandular medial impossible. Moreover, there were strong ciliary portion of the open duct which probably func­ currents leading from the proximal to the distal tions as the capsule gland (cg, Fig. 1); here portion of the groove and it would seem impos­ the inner walls of the laminae were glandular sible for the sperm to swim against such a and folded. At the distal end of the oviducal current if they were to move from the recep­ groove on the edge of the nonglandular portion taculum up to the site of fertilization. Perhaps of the lamina was a short slit (scg, Fig. 1), the sperm stored in the bursa are moved out of the sperm-collecting gutter of Johansson (1953), aperture into the lumen and down the groove which measured about 5 mm in length and led to the distal receptaculum seminis where they into the opening of a long, ciliated, flattened are stored. Subsequently they may leave the re­ tube (ct, Fig. 1). This tube ran inside the ceptaculum seminis, be drawn into the ciliated entire length of the medial lamina (ml, Fig. 1) slit, and move up into the bursa again prior to and enlarged into a chamber (bc, Fig. 1) lo­ fertilization and oviposition. Thus the bursa cated at its proximal end. Within this chamber may function as an intermediary receptaculum were found eupyrene sperm mixed with a yel­ seminis because the sperm could then move lowish mucus and thin jellylike strands of un­ through the aperture and fertilize the eggs be­ known function. Johansson (1947) called this fore they passed through the albumen and cap­ area in C. vulgatum the bursa copulatrix. Within sule glands. the bursa, embedded in the wall of the inner portion of the medial lamina, was a pink glan­ REPRODUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT dular area (ga, Fig. 1) resembling a warty Pairing was observed in the field, but the flap. Under this area a tiny opening led mechanism of sperm transferral was not seen. through the wall of the lamina into the lumen It is no doubt similar to that process described of the proximal oviducal groove (og, Fig. 1). by Fretter (1951) for Cerithiopsis in which Ciliary currents led from the bursa through the sperm, liberated with prostatic fluid, are im­ glandular area and its opening into the lumen. mediately drawn into the inhalent siphon of The unfertilized eggs left the closed oviduct the female and thence into her mantle cavity. in this portion of the lumen. I believe that this One female, measuring 110 mm long and must be the site of fertilization, and that sperm 50 mm wide, was observed depositing her egg stored in the chamber are transported through mass. She was partially buried in the thin sand the glandular aperture into the proximal open covering a limestone shelf. The crescent-shaped part of the duct where they fertilize the eggs egg mass was attached to the rocky substrate as the latter move into the open portion of the and was also partially covered with sand. The oviduct. As the fertilized eggs continue to move egg mass of Cerithium nodulosum (Fig. 2a) down the open groove, albumen and the hyaline proved to be quite distinctive in contrast to membrane are laid down around them. At the those described for other cerithiids. This egg distal end of the oviducal groove, opposite the mass consisted of a thick, ribbonlike, axial base slit on the medial lamina where the lateral which was of jellylike consistency. To this base lamina (11, Fig. 1) was fused to the dorsal were attached clusters of many coiled strings or body wall of the animal, was situated a pink filaments folded about themselves. The filaments glandular area within which was an opening were also jellylike and were covered with sand leading to a thin tube measuring 16 mm long grains. The whole mass was crescent shaped and 3 mm wide. This tube was also filled with and, in many respects, closely resembled that sperm and was called the receptaculum seminis described for Strombus (Robertson, 1959; by Johansson (1947) in C. vulgatum. It was D'Asaro, 1965). Detached from the substrate, found just beneath the epithelium. It is difficult the basal axial position of one egg mass mea­ to understand the function of a receptaculum sured 55 mm long and 6 mm wide. Each seminis located in the distal portion of the geni­ cluster of filaments attached to this basal axial tal duct. Eggs reaching this area would already portion averaged 12 mm in length, and 33 clus­ have been encapsulated, making fertilization ters of filaments were attached to this axis. The 562 PACIFIC SCIENCE, Volume 25, October 1971 ga ag ml---"1l cg JJ scg so Some Aspects ,of Cerithium IZodulosum-HouBRIcK 563 b , I -''Ytr<~'\'\ '.; ,\ st elm he z :\:1 M m FIG. 2. a, Egg mass of Cerithium nodulosum detached from substrate and stretched to full length; b, portion of filament with sand grains removed to show zygotes; c, newly hatched veliger partially retracted in shelL SYMBOLS: elm, external limiting membrane; he, hyaline capsule; z, zygote; da, digestive anlage; f, foot; op, operculum; st, statocyst; v, velum. individual filaments (Fig. 2b) were cylindrical, zygotes (z, Fig. 2b), .138 mm in diameter. covered with an external limiting membrane There were approximately 500 egg capsules per (elm, Fig. 2b) and measured 1 mm in diam­ centimeter of filament and the whole egg mass eter. Within this diameter, four to, five egg was estimated to. contain 66,000 eggs. Egg capsules were found. Egg capsules. (he, Fig. 2b) capsules did not appear to touch each other measured about .280 mm in diameter and the and there were thin membranous transparent , FIG. 1. 'Diagrammatic representation of pallial portion of female genital duct in Cerithium nodulosum. ag, albumen gland; ars, aperture of receptaculum seminis; be, bursa copulatrix; cg, capsule gland; em, colu­ mellar .muscle; ct, ciliated tube; ga, glandular area; 11, latterallamina; me, mantle edge; ml, medial lamina; 0, oviduct; og, oviducal groove; rs, receptaculum seminis; scg, sperm collecting gutter; sn, snout; t, tentacle.
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