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2005 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Paleobiological research on the history of earth organisms modeled by the submarine cave ecosystem

Research Project

Project/Area Number 15253008
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section海外学術
Research Field Stratigraphy/Paleontology
Research InstitutionNational Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo

Principal Investigator

KASE Tomoki  National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo, Geology, Curator in chief (20124183)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) KITAMURA Akihisa  Shizuoka University, Faculty of Science, Associate Professor (20260581)
SUZUKI Yutaro  Shizuoka University, Faculty of Science, Assistant (50345807)
KANO Yasunori  Miyazaki University, Faculty of Agriculture, Assistant (20381056)
TABUKI Ryoichi  Ryukyu University, Faculty of Education, Professor (60155231)
CHIBA Satoshi  Tohoku University, Graduate School of Science, Associate Profeffor (10236812)
Project Period (FY) 2003 – 2005
Keywordssubmarine cave / Indo Pacific / speciation / Mollusca / biogeography / evolution / paleoenvironment / early development
Research Abstract

1. We systematically described two new species of mysid crustaceans and one new genus and three new species of neritilid gastropods.
2. A unique ecological feature in submarine caves is the infrequency of predator animals, reminiscent of the mid-Mesozoic shallow marine ecosystem. To compare the ecological features between the modern submarine caves and mid-Mesozoic shallow marine ecosystem, we studied the history of shell-drilling, predatory naticid gastropods as they represent the best fossil records of predator-prey relationship. We showed that naticids first appeared in the end of Cretaceous and started drilling predation since that time. On the other hand, we examined drilling and crushing predation in shells of two submarine caves of Okinawa, southern Japan as low as 5%, the frequency is equivalent to those for the late Cretaceous shallow marine assemblages. This is the first documentation of predatory activity in submarine caves.
3. Neritilia cavernicala n. sp. was described from anchialine caves of two islands separated more than 200km apart in the Philippines. We presented the first genetic structure for anchailine cave organisms (mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase I), which shows no evidence of genetic isolation between the islands. All individuals are part of a panmictic population and their seemingly isolated cave habitats do not limit gene flow in this species. Larval dispersal may be widely applicable to anchialine stygobites with insular distributions.
4. A taxonomic study of Nerilitidae shows the species diversity is the highest in SE Asian islands and becomes smaller in accordance with the distance from the diversity center. Contrast to the previous, widely accepted view that cavericolous animals dispersed primarily by plate tectonics and vicariance, transoceanic dispersal should have played an important role, like most modern invertebrates in tropical coral-reef seas, in forming the present distribution of the cavericolous neritilids.

  • Research Products

    (32 results)

All 2006 2005 2004 2003 Other

All Journal Article (32 results)

  • [Journal Article] 沖縄県伊江島の海底洞窟堆積物から見つかった軽石散在層2006

    • Author(s)
      北村晃寿
    • Journal Title

      第四紀研究 45(2)

      Pages: 141-144

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Bulacanites obtusiplicatus gen. et sp. nov., a large lucinid bivalve from the Pliocene of central Luzon, Philippines2006

    • Author(s)
      Kase, T.
    • Journal Title

      Memoirs of the Naitonal Science Museum (44)

      Pages: 175-184

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] The usefulness of the opercular nucleus for inferring early development in neritimorph gastropods2006

    • Author(s)
      Kano, Y.
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Morphology 268(in press)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Discovery of sediment layer containing pumice grains in submarine cave sediment in coral reef of Okinawa Islands2006

    • Author(s)
      Kitamura, A., Kase, T., Umino, S., Yamamoto, N., Ohashi, S., Hiramoto, M., Wakayama, N., Amemiya, M
    • Journal Title

      The Quaternary Research 45(2)

      Pages: 141-144

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] New look at ammonoid taphonomy, based on field experiments with modern chambered nautilus2005

    • Author(s)
      Wani, K.
    • Journal Title

      Geology 33(11)

      Pages: 849-852

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] The New pleurotomariid gastropods assemblage from the Jurassic sequence of Kutch, western India2005

    • Author(s)
      Das, S
    • Journal Title

      Paleontological Research 9(4)

      Pages: 329-346

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] New look at ammonoid taphonomy, based on field experiments with modern chambered nautilus2005

    • Author(s)
      Ward, R., Kase, T., Shigeta, Y., De Ocampo, R
    • Journal Title

      Geology 33(11)

      Pages: 849-852

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] The New pleurotomariid gastropod assemblage from the Jurassic sequence of Kutch, western India2005

    • Author(s)
      Das, S. S., Bardhan, S., Kase, T.
    • Journal Title

      Paleontological Research 9(4)

      Pages: 329-346

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Fossil collections and researches at the Mines and Geosciences Bureau, Quezon City, Philippines2004

    • Author(s)
      Aguilar, Y. M.
    • Journal Title

      National Science Museum, Monograph (24)

      Pages: 21-30

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] A mangrove-forest dwelling gastropod Ellobium aurismidae (Linnaeus) (Ellobiidae ; Pulmonata) from the Papulo Formaiton, Batangas Province, southern Luzon, Philippines2004

    • Author(s)
      Kase, T.
    • Journal Title

      National Science Museum, Monograph (24)

      Pages: 187-195

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Snails versus hermit crabs : a new interpretation on shell-peeling predation on fossil gastropod assemblages2004

    • Author(s)
      Ishikawa, M.
    • Journal Title

      Paleontological Research 8(2)

      Pages: 99-108

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Cave-dwelling mysids of the genus Heteromysoides (Crustacea : Mysidacea)from Grand Cayman Island, Caribbean Sea : descriptions of a new and a rare species2004

    • Author(s)
      Hanamura, Y.
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Natural History 38

      Pages: 2145-2152

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Genetic-exchange between anchialine-cave populations by means of larval dispersal : thw case of a new gastropod species Neritilia cavernicola2004

    • Author(s)
      Kano, Y.
    • Journal Title

      Zoololigica Scripta 33

      Pages: 423-437

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Upper Cretaceous stable carbon-isotope stratigraphy of terrestrial organic matter from Sakhalin, Russian Far East : a proxy for the isotopic composition of paleoatmospheric CO_2- reply2004

    • Author(s)
      Hasegawa, T.
    • Journal Title

      Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 215

      Pages: 179-182

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Fossil collections and researches at the Mines and Geosciences Bureau, Quezon City, Philippines2004

    • Author(s)
      Aguilar, M. Y., Kase, T.
    • Journal Title

      National Science Museum, Monograph (24)

      Pages: 21-30

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] A mangrove-forest dwelling gastropods Ellobium aurismidae (Linnaeus) (Ellobiidae; Pulmonata) from the Mapulo Formation, Batangas Province, souther Luzon, Philippines2004

    • Author(s)
      Kase, T., Aguilar, Y. M
    • Journal Title

      National Science Museum, Monograph (24)

      Pages: 187-195

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Snails versus hermit crabs: a new interpretation on shell-peeling predation on fossil gastropod assemblages2004

    • Author(s)
      Ishikawa, M., Kase, T., Tsutsui, H., Tojo, B.
    • Journal Title

      Paleontological Research 8(2)

      Pages: 99-108

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Cave-dwelling mysids of the genus Heteromysoides (Crustacea'- Mysidacea) from Grand Cayman Island, Caribbean Sea: descriptions of a new and a rare species2004

    • Author(s)
      Hanamura, Y., Kase, T.
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Natural History 38

      Pages: 2145-2152

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Genetic exchange between anchialine-cave populations by means of larval dispersal : thw case of a new gastropod species Netitilia cavernicola2004

    • Author(s)
      Kano, Y., Chiba, S., Kase, T.
    • Journal Title

      Zoologica Scripta 33

      Pages: 423-437

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Upper Cretaceous stable carbon "isotope stratigraphy of terrestrial organic matter from Sakhalin, Russian Far East: a proxy for the isotopic composition of paleoatmospheric CO_2-reply2004

    • Author(s)
      Hasegawa, T.,Pratt, L. M., Maeda, H., Shigeta, Y., Okamoto, T., Kase, T., Uemura, K
    • Journal Title

      Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 215

      Pages: 179-182

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Additional specimens and range extension of Brachycarpus crosnieri Bruce, 1998 (Decapoda : Caridea : Palaemonidae)2003

    • Author(s)
      Okuno, J.
    • Journal Title

      Crustaceans 76(9)

      Pages: 1143-1149

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Mystery of naticid predation history solved : Evidence from a “living fossil"species2003

    • Author(s)
      Kase, T.
    • Journal Title

      Geology 31

      Pages: 403-406

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Palaumysis pilifera, a new species of cave-dwelling mysid (Crustacea : Mysidacea) from Okinawa, southwestern Japan with an additional note on P. simonae Bacescu & Iliffe, 19862003

    • Author(s)
      Hanamura, Y.
    • Journal Title

      Hydrobiologia 497

      Pages: 145-152

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Mystery of naticid predation history solved : YEvidence from a “living fossil"species : comments and reply2003

    • Author(s)
      Kase, T.
    • Journal Title

      Geology (online) 31

      Pages: e35

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Systematics of Neritinia rubida complex (Gastropoda : Neritiliidae) : three amphidromous species with overlapping distributions in the Indo-Pacific2003

    • Author(s)
      Kano, Y.
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Molluscan Studies 69

      Pages: 273-284

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Additional specimens and range extension of Brachycarpus crosnieriBruce, 1998 (Decapoda: Caridea: Palaemonidae)2003

    • Author(s)
      Okuno, J., Takeda, M., Kase, T
    • Journal Title

      Crustaceana 76(9)

      Pages: 1143-1149

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Mystery of naticid predation history solved : Evidence from a "living fossil" species2003

    • Author(s)
      Kase, T., Ishikawa, M.
    • Journal Title

      Geology 31(5)

      Pages: 403-406

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Palaumysispilifera, a new species of cave-dwelling mysid (Crustacea: Mysidacea) from Okinawa, south- western Japan with an additional note on P. simonae Bacescu & Iliffe, 19862003

    • Author(s)
      Hanamura, Y., Kase, T.
    • Journal Title

      Hydrobiologia 497

      Pages: 145-152

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Mystery of naticid predation history solved: Evidence from a "living fossil" species : comments and reply2003

    • Author(s)
      Kase, T., Ishikawa, M.
    • Journal Title

      Geology 31

      Pages: e35

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Systematics of Neritinia rubida complex (Gastropoda: Neritiliidae): three amphidromous species with overlapping distributions in the Indo-Pacific2003

    • Author(s)
      Kano, Y., Kase, T., Kubo, H.
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Molluscan Studies 69

      Pages: 273-284

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Bulacanites obtusiplicatus gen. et sp. nov., a large lucinid bivalve from the Pliocene of central Luzon, Philippines

    • Author(s)
      Kase, T., Aguilar, M. Y.
    • Journal Title

      Memoirs of the National Science Museum 44 (in press)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] The usefulness of the opercular nucleus for inferring early development in neritimorph gastropods

    • Author(s)
      Kano, Y.
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Morphology 268 (in press)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より

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Published: 2010-06-09  

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