Symbiotic Behavior between Small Fishes and Jellyfishes, with New Data on That between the Stromateid, Peprilus alepidotus, and the Scyphomedusa, Chrysaora quinquecirrha

Mansueti, Romeo J.

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“…In a choice experiment, fish that commonly associate with jellyfish in nature approached their jellyfish host less frequently and spent less time close to their host under future high-CO 2 conditions than under present-day conditions. Most fishes associating with jellyfish do not have any immunity against jellyfish toxins [8], and therefore need to continuously adjust their position relative to the pulsating jellyfish host to avoid contact with the cnidocytes on their oral arms or tentacles [15,29]. Ocean acidification can reverse or alter a wide range of animal behaviours mediated by vision, olfaction or audition in fishes as well as invertebrates [18,30] by interfering with the brain neurotransmitter function [31,32].…”

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“…Fish-jellyfish interactions are complex as they include predation by jellyfish on larval fish, predation by fishes on jellyfish, competition for zooplankton prey between jellyfish and fish, jellyfish acting as intermediate hosts for fish parasites, and commensal relationships in which fishes receive protection from potential predators [8][9][10]. Most fish species that associate with jellyfish form a temporary association as juveniles and hence have not evolved elaborate protective mechanisms against the venomous tentacles of jellyfish [8]. This association is particularly advantageous for larval and juvenile fish species during their oceanic life stage, because any type of pelagic habitat that provides protection from predation (e.g.…”

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Ocean acidification alters fish–jellyfish symbiosis

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Symbiotic relationships are common in nature, and are important for individual fitness and sustaining species populations. Global change is rapidly altering environmental conditions, but, with the exception of coralmicroalgae interactions, we know little of how this will affect symbiotic relationships. We here test how the effects of ocean acidification, from rising anthropogenic CO 2 emissions, may alter symbiotic interactions between juvenile fish and their jellyfish hosts. Fishes treated with elevated seawater CO 2 concentrations, as forecast for the end of the century on a business-as-usual greenhouse gas emission scenario, were negatively affected in their behaviour. The total time that fish (yellowtail scad) spent close to their jellyfish host in a choice arena where they could see and smell their host was approximately three times shorter under future compared with ambient CO 2 conditions. Likewise, the mean number of attempts to associate with jellyfish was almost three times lower in CO 2 -treated compared with control fish, while only 63% (high CO 2 ) versus 86% (control) of all individuals tested initiated an association at all. By contrast, none of three fish species tested were attracted solely to jellyfish olfactory cues under present-day CO 2 conditions, suggesting that the altered fish-jellyfish association is not driven by negative effects of ocean acidification on olfaction. Because shelter is not widely available in the open water column and larvae of many (and often commercially important) pelagic species associate with jellyfish for protection against predators, modification of the fish-jellyfish symbiosis might lead to higher mortality and alter species population dynamics, and potentially have flow-on effects for their fisheries.

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“…Jellyfish and fish have been reported to interact in a variety of ways, such as predation on medusae by fish, competition for zooplankton as a food resource, predation on fish by medusae, parasite transmission to fish, as well as in association (Mansueti 1963, Ates 1988, Arai 1988, Thiel 1970, 1978, Purcell & Arai 2001, Arai 2005. Most of the data for jellyfishfish interactions exist on medusae as ichthyoplankton predators (Purcell & Arai 2001).…”

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“…Associations, herein defined as situations in which different species occur together (see Duffy 2008 for a more detailed definition and examples), are much less documented and studied compared to other interactions, and their importance for both jellyfish and fish consorts is still poorly known (Mansueti 1963, Purcell & Arai 2001. These associations are almost exclusively temporary (except for Nomeus grovonii (Gmelin, 1789) and the siphonophore Physalia physalis (Linnaeus, 1758)) and result from extrinsic chance factors, such as fish in search of food supplies as well as thigmotactic and negative phototropic responses (Mansueti 1963, Kingsford 1993.…”

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“…These associations are almost exclusively temporary (except for Nomeus grovonii (Gmelin, 1789) and the siphonophore Physalia physalis (Linnaeus, 1758)) and result from extrinsic chance factors, such as fish in search of food supplies as well as thigmotactic and negative phototropic responses (Mansueti 1963, Kingsford 1993. As chance factors play a major role, it is reasonable that there are no reported cases of species-specific or obligatory associations (Purcell & Arai 2001).…”

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First record of association between <i>Tamoya haplonema</i> (Cnidaria: Cubozoa) and stromateid fish, with a review on interactions between fish and cubozoan jellyfishes

Lawley

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2018

Plankton Benthos Res

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Jellyfish-fish interactions have long been reported, most of these related to medusae as ichthyoplankton predators. Conversely, associations are much less documented, most involving scyphozoan jellyfishes in comparison to cubozoans. We report for the first time the association between the cubozoan Tamoya haplonema and stromateid fish, along with a review of all published cubomedusae-fish interactions. Four individuals of Peprilus cf. crenulatus, were observed swimming around the tentacles and subumbrellar cavity of an individual of T. haplonema during a SCUBA dive on the southern coast of Brazil. This behavior has been noted before, in which fish roam around the tentacles, avoiding them, and may move inside the subumbrellar cavity if threatened. In the review of cubomedusae-fish interactions, over 20 reports involve predation on fish whilst only 6 involve associations, which is much less than the over 80 associations described for scyphomedusae. This emphasizes the scarcity of reports on associations compared to predation, as well as of interactions of fishes with cubozoans if compared to scyphozoans. This could be due to host preference or even the large spatial and temporal variability in the occurrence of the former. Furthermore, even though there are no indications of species-specific interactions, reports of associations with cubozoans only involve fish species from the families Carangidae and Stromateidae, which produce pelagic young that have the highest potential for these associations. Future studies may address the possibility of size relationships in jellyfish-fish associations, as well as potential host preferences by the fish consorts.

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The Associations between Fishes and Siphonophores

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2014

Symbiosis in Fishes

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Symbiotic Behavior between Small Fishes and Jellyfishes, with New Data on That between the Stromateid, Peprilus alepidotus, and the Scyphomedusa, Chrysaora quinquecirrha

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Ocean acidification alters fish–jellyfish symbiosis

Ocean acidification alters fish–jellyfish symbiosis

First record of association between <i>Tamoya haplonema</i> (Cnidaria: Cubozoa) and stromateid fish, with a review on interactions between fish and cubozoan jellyfishes

The Associations between Fishes and Siphonophores

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