Suspension and Filter Feeding in Aquatic Insects

Yee, Donald; Kaufman, Michael G.

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“…Filter‐feeding certainly evolved many times independently in various non‐related taxa in aquatic insects. Most filter‐feeders can be found within immature stages of the Recent orders Ephemeroptera, Trichoptera and Diptera; elsewhere this strategy is only rarely found, for example, in Coleoptera (Yee & Kaufman 2019). Trichoptera dates back to the Permian, but mostly only adults or larval cases have been preserved.…”

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Evolution of filter‐feeding in aquatic insects dates back to the Middle Triassic: new evidence from stem‐group mayflies (Insecta, Ephemerida) from Grès à Voltzia, Vosges, France

Sroka

Staniczek

2022

Papers in Palaeontology

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In the aquatic insects, mayfly nymphs have developed a remarkable diversity of life strategies and feeding habits. However, the early evolution of these strategies and the role of mayfly nymphs in freshwater palaeoecosystems remain largely unknown. We investigated fossil mayfly nymphs from the Gr es a Voltzia Formation from the Middle Triassic, France, which represents the oldest known outcrop yielding a diverse mayfly fauna. We focused on three species, namely Mesoplectopteron longipes, Vogesonympha ludovici and Triassoephemera punctata, and investigated both original type material and numerous previously unstudied specimens. As a result, we provide a new interpretation of their morphology, life histories, and systematics: the nymphs of M. longipes, V. ludovici and T. punctata were aquatic and at least the former two species undoubtedly lived in flowing water as passive filter-feeders. This finding represents the so far earliest occurrence of this feeding strategy in aquatic insects. The most obvious morphological adaptations to this lifestyle are long filtering setae arranged in rows on forelegs, analogous to some modern mayfly nymphs. We place the three investigated species M. longipes, V. ludovici and T. punctata in a newly established, unranked higher taxon, Sinebranchia, representing the sister group to Heptabranchia (Coxoplectoptera + Ephemeroptera). Sinebranchia share a single-segmented tarsus synapomorphic with Heptabranchia, but retain the plesiomorphic condition of double tarsal claws. Sinebranchia are also characterized by their autapomorphic lack of tracheal gills, probably connected to their life in flowing, welloxygenated water.

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Evolution of filter‐feeding in aquatic insects dates back to the Middle Triassic: new evidence from stem‐group mayflies (Insecta, Ephemerida) from Grès à Voltzia, Vosges, France

Sroka

Staniczek

2022

Papers in Palaeontology

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Development of lake macroinvertebrate-based multimetric index for monitoring ecological health in North Central Nigeria

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Arimoro,

Chukwuemeka

et al. 2023

Environ Monit Assess

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Suspension feeders: diversity, principles of particle separation and biomimetic potential

Hamann

Blanke

2022

J. R. Soc. Interface.

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Suspension feeders (SFs) evolved a high diversity of mechanisms, sometimes with remarkably convergent morphologies, to retain plankton, detritus and man-made particles with particle sizes ranging from less than 1 µm to several centimetres. Based on an extensive literature review, also including the physical and technical principles of solid–liquid separation, we developed a set of 18 ecological and technical parameters to review 35 taxa of suspension-feeding Metazoa covering the diversity of morphological and functional principles. This includes passive SFs, such as gorgonians or crinoids that use the ambient flow to encounter particles, and sponges, bivalves or baleen whales, which actively create a feeding current. Separation media can be flat or funnel-shaped, built externally such as the filter houses in larvaceans, or internally, like the pleated gills in bivalves. Most SFs feed in the intermediate flow region of Reynolds number 1–50 and have cleaning mechanisms that allow for continuous feeding. Comparison of structure–function patterns in SFs to current filtration technologies highlights potential solutions to common technical design challenges, such as mucus nets which increase particle adhesion in ascidians, vanes which reduce pressure losses in whale sharks and changing mesh sizes in the flamingo beak which allow quick adaptation to particle sizes.

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Suspension and Filter Feeding in Aquatic Insects

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Evolution of filter‐feeding in aquatic insects dates back to the Middle Triassic: new evidence from stem‐group mayflies (Insecta, Ephemerida) from Grès à Voltzia, Vosges, France

Evolution of filter‐feeding in aquatic insects dates back to the Middle Triassic: new evidence from stem‐group mayflies (Insecta, Ephemerida) from Grès à Voltzia, Vosges, France

Development of lake macroinvertebrate-based multimetric index for monitoring ecological health in North Central Nigeria

Suspension feeders: diversity, principles of particle separation and biomimetic potential

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