Infaunal macrobenthic community dynamics in a manipulated hyperhaline ecosystem: a long-term study

Bellisario, Bruno; Carere, Claudio; Cerfolli, Fulvio; Angeletti, Dario; Nascetti, Giuseppe; Cimmaruta, Roberta

doi:10.1186/2046-9063-9-20

Aquatic Biosystems

Table 2 List of the benthic macroinvertebrates found in the Tarquinia Saltworks during the fourteen years of the study

From: Infaunal macrobenthic community dynamics in a manipulated hyperhaline ecosystem: a long-term study

						Pre-recovery		Post-recovery
N	Phylum	Class	Order	Taxon	Habitat	Halt	Eutrophication
1	Mollusca	Gastropoda	Littorinimorpha	Hydrobia acuta (Draparnaud, 1805)	Brackish	x	x	x
2			Caenogastropoda	Cerithium vulgatum (Bruguière, 1792)	Marine	x	x	x
3			Neogastropoda	Nassarius corniculum (Olivi, 1792)	Brackish/Marine	x		x
4			Pulmonata	Ovatella myosotis (Draparnaud, 1801)	Saltmarsh	x	x
5			Cephalaspidae	Haminoea sp. (Turton & Kingston in Carrington, 1830)	Marine			x
6		Bivalvia	Veneroida	Abra segmentum (Récluz, 1843)	Brackish	x	x	x
7				Cerastoderma glaucum (Bruguière, 1789)	Marine/Saltworks	x	x	x
8			Mytiloida	Mytilaster sp. (Monterosato, 1884)	Marine	x		x
9				Modiolus adriaticus (Lamarck, 1819)	Marine	x
10	Annelida	Polychaeta	Nainereis (Genus)	Nainereis laevigata (Grube, 1855)	Marine	x	x	x
11			Spionida	Spio decorates (Bobretzky, 1870)	Marine	x	x	x
12			Capitellidae (Family)	Capitella capitata (Fabricius, 1780)	Cosmopolitan	x	x	x
13			Phyllodocida	Neanthes irrorata (Malmgren, 1867)	Marine	x
14				Perinereis cultrifera (Grube, 1840)	Marine	x	x	x
15				Ophiodromus pallidus (Claparède, 1864)	Marine			x
16			Sabellida	Amphiglena mediterranea (Leydig, 1851)	Marine	x
17			Orbiniidae (Family)	Protoaricia oerstedi (Claparède, 1864)	Marine			x
18		Clitellata	Oligochaeta	Incertae sedis	Cosmopolitan	x	x	x
19	Arthropoda	Malacostraca	Isopoda	Idotea balthica (Pallas, 1772)	Subtidal	x	x	x
20				Sphaeroma serratum (Fabricius, 1787)	Marine	x
21			Amphipoda	Monocorophium insidiosum (Crawford, 1937)	Marine	x	x	x
22				Gammarus aequicauda (Martynov, 1931)	Marine	x	x	x
23				Ericthonius sp. (Milne-Edwards, 1830)	Marine			x
24				Microdeutopus spp (Costa, 1853)	Brackish/Marine			x
25		Insecta	Diptera	Chironomus sp (larvae) (Meigen, 1803)	Cosmopolitan	x	x	x
26				(Others) (larvae)	Cosmopolitan	x		x
27	Nemertea	Enopla	Monostilifera	Ototyphlonemertidae? (Diesing, 1863)	Intertidal			x
28	Platyhelminthes	Rhabditophora	Polycladida	Stylochus sp. (Ehrenberg, 1831)	Marine			x
29	Cnidaria	Anthozoa	Actiniaria	Actiniidae, (Family) (Rafinesque, 1815)	Marine			x
				S		21	14	24

N is the number of sampled taxa and S the total number of macroinvertebrates per period. Two samplings per year were carried out, during winter and summer, and the data were cumulated within each time period (Halt = 1997-2002, Eutrophication = 2003-2005, Post-recovery = 2006-2010).

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