Svjetlana Krstulovic SIFNER, Dragana BOSNJAK, Mirela PETRIC

New Information on Deep-Sea Cephalopod Ancistroteuthis lichtensteinii (Cephalopoda: Onychoteuthidae) in the Adriatic Sea

Specimens of Ancistroteuthis lichtensteinii were collected in the South Adriatic Pit during the deep-sea researchperformed in the South Adriatic Pit in 2010. They were caught at depths between 690 and 1.200 m with pelagic and bottomtrawls. A total of 39 individuals were collected. The mantle length ranged from 13 to 129 mm, and body weight from 0.2 to63.1 g. The length-weight relationship revealed a negative allometric growth. Morphological characteristics of upper andlower beak showed a positive correlation with mantle length and body weight. When compared to the body length, t he highestgrowth rate in the sample was determined for the crest length and the lowest rate for the rostrum length, both for upper andlower beak. Statolith microstructure analysis showed that individual age ranged between 72 and 178 days and average age ofthe analysed specimens was 108 days. This study proved that juveniles of this rare species inhabit depths of the South Adriat icSea. The general lack of information on A. lichtensteinii is not a result of its absence in the area but of the scarcity ofinvestigations in depths of the South Adriatic Pit and use of inadequate sampling techniques for the pelagic species.

PDF

___

Adam, W. (1962). Céphalopodes de l'Archipel du Cap-Vert, de l'Angola et du Mozambique. Memorias da Junta de Investigacoes do Ultramar, 2, 33:9-64.

Arkhipkin, A.I., & Nigmatullin, C.M. (1997). Ecology of the oceanic squid Onychoteuthis banksi and the relationship between the genera Onychoteuthis and Chaunoteuthis (Cephalopoda: Onychoteuthidae). Journal of the Marine Biological Association UK, 77, 839-869. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025315400036225

Arkhipkin, A., & Laptikhovsky, V. (2010). Convergence in life-history traits in migratory deep-water squid and fish. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 67, 1444-1451. https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsq103

Bello, G. (1990). The cephalopod fauna of the Adriatic. Acta Adriatica, 31, 257-291.

Bello, G. (1991). Role of cephalopods in the diet of the swordfish, Xiphias gladius, from the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Bulletin of Marine Science, 49(1- 2), 312-324.

Bello, G. (1996). Teuthophagous predators as collectors of oceanic cephalopods: The case of the Adriatic Sea. Bollettino Malacologico, 32(1-4), 71-78.

Bertrand, A.J., Gil de Sola, L., Papaconstantinou, C., Relini, G., & Souplet, A. (2002). The general specifications of the MEDITS Surveys. Scientia Marina, 66(Suppl. 2): 9-17.

Bigelow, K.A. (1994). Age and growth of the oceanic squid Onychoteuthis borealijaponica in the North Pacific. Fishery Bulletin, 92(1), 13-25.

Clarke, M.R. (1962). The identification of cephalopod "beaks" and the relationship between beak size and total body weight. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Zoology, 8(10), 419-480.

Clarke, M.R. (1986). A handbook for the identification of cephalopod beaks. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 273 pp.

Denger, E. (1926). Cephalopoda. Report on the Danish Oceanographic Expeditions 1908-10 to the Mediterranean and adjacent seas, 9: Vol. II. Biology, C.I.: 1-10.

D´Onghia, G., Indennidate, A., Giove, A., Savini, A., Capezzuto, F., Sion, L., Vertino, A., & Maiorano, P. (2011). Distribution and behaviour of deep-sea benthopelagic fauna observed using towed cameras in the Santa Maria di Leuca cold-water coral province. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 443, 95-110. ht t p s://doi.org/10.3354/mep s09432

Dubinina, T.S. (1977). Morphological peculiarities of larvae of squid family Onychoteuthidae in the World Ocean. In: B.G. Ivanov, S.A., Golovachev, N.F., Lavrovskaya, A.A., Neiman, K.N. Nesis (Eds.), AllUSSR Scientific Conference on the Use of Commercial Invertebrates for Food, Fodder and Technical Purposes. Abstracts of the Communications, Odessa, 22-25 November 1977. Moscow: 34-35.

Gamulin-Brida, H., & Ilijanić, V. (1965). Note sur quelques espèces de Céphalopods, rares en Adriatique, déposées dans le Musée de Zoologie de Zagreb. Rapport Commission International Mer Méditerranée, 18(2), 207-210.

Gamulin-Brida, H., & Ilijanić, V. (1972). Contribution à la connaissance des Céphalopodes de l'Adriatique. Acta Adriatica, 14(6), 3-12.

Gonzalez, M., & Sanchez, P. (2002). Cephalopod assemblages caught by trawling along the Iberian Peninsula Mediterranean coast. Scientia Marina, 66(2), 198-202.

Ikica, Z., Vuković, V., Đurović, M., Joksimović, A., & Krstulović Šifner, S. (2014). Analysis of beak morphometry of the horned octopus Eledone cirrhosa, Lamarck 1798 (Cephalopoda: Octopoda), in the south-eastern Adriatic Sea. Acta Adriatica, 55(1), 43- 56.

Jackson G.D. (1993). Growth Zones within the Statolith Microstructure of the Deepwater Squid Moroteuthis ingens (Cephalopoda: Onychoteuthidae): Evidence for a Habitat Shift? Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 50(11), 2366-2374.

Jackson, G.D., George, M.J.A., & Buxton, N.G. (1998). Distribution and abundance of the squid Moroteuthis ingens (Cephalopoda: Onychoteuthidae) in the Falkland Islands region of the South Atlantic. Polar Biology, 20, 161-169.

Kovačić, I., Đuras Gomerčić, M., Gomerčić, H., Lucić, H., & Gomerčić, T. (2010). Stomach contents of two Cuvier's beaked whales (Ziphius cavirostris) stranded in the Adriatic Sea. Marine Biodiversity Records, 3, 1- 4.

Krstulović Šifner, S., Lefkaditou, E., Ungaro, N., Ceriola, L., Osmani, K., Kavadas, S., & Vrgoč, N. (2005) Composition and distribution of the cephalopod fauna in the eastern Adriatic and eastern Ionian Sea. Israel Journal of Zoology, 51, 315-330.

Krstulović Šifner, S., Peharda, M., Vrgoč, N., Isajlović, I., Dadić, V., & Petrić, M. (2011). Biodiversity and distribution of cephalopods caught by trawling along the Northern and Central Adriatic Sea. Cahiers de Biologie Marine, 52, 291-302.

Kubodera, T., Piatkowski, U., Okutani, T., & Clarke, M.R. (1998). Taxonomy and Zoogeography of the Family Onychoteuthidae (Cephalopoda: Oegopsida). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 586, 277-291.

Lefkaditou, E., Politou, C.Y., & Papaconstantinou, C. (2000). Notes on Brachioteuthis riisei (Steenstrup, 1882) and Ancistroteuthis lichtensteini (Orbigni, 1839) (Cephalopoda: Teuthoidea) found in the Aegean Sea. Belgian Journal of Zoology, 130,(Suppl. 1), 71-75.

Lefkaditou, E., Mytilineou, Ch., Maiorano, P., & D'Onghia, G. (2003). Cephalopod Species Captured by Deepwater Exploratory Trawling in the Northeastern Ionian Sea. Journal of the Northwest Atlantic Fishery Science, 31, 431-440. https://doi.org/10.2960/J.v31.a33

Mangold, K. (1973). Les Cephalopodes récoltés en Méditerranée par le “Jean-Charcot” campagnes Polymede I et II. Revue des Travaux de l'Institut des Pêches Maritimes, 37(3), 391-395.

Mangold, K., & Boletzky, S.V. (1987). Céphalopodes. In: Fischer, W., M.L. Bauchot & M. Schneider (eds) Fiches d’identification des especes pour les besoins de la pêche. Méditerr. et Mer Noire, 1, 633-714.

MEDITS (2007). Instruction Manual: International bottom trawl survey in the Mediterranean, Version n. 5 MEDITS Working Group, 56 pp.

Merella, P., Quetglas, A., Alemany, F., & Carbonell, A. (1997). Length-weight relationship of fishes and cephalopods from the Balearic Islands (western Mediterranean). Naga ICLARM Q, 20(3/4), 66-68.

Naef, A. (1921). Die Cephalopoden (Fauna und Flora des Golfes von Neapel und der Angrenzenden MeersAbschitte), Monographie 35, Teil 1, Friedlaender & Sohn, Berlin pgs. 48, 131, 205, 217, 229.

Nesis, K.N. (1987). Cephalopods of the World. TFH Publications, Inc Ltd Neptune City, New Jersey.

Petrić, M., Ferri, J., Škeljo, F., & Krstulović Šifner, S. (2010). Body and beak measures of Illex coindetii (Cephalopoda: Ommastrephidae) and their relation to growth and maturity. Cahiers de Biologie Marine, 51, 275-287.

Quetglas, A., Ordines, F., Gonzalez, M., Zaragoza, N., Mallol, S., Valls, M., & De Mesa, A. (2013). Uncommon pelagic and deep-sea chepalopods in the Mediterranean: new data and literature review. Mediterranean Marine Science, 14(1), 69-85. https://doi.org/10.12681/mms.320

Rancurel, P. (1970). Les contenus stomacaux d'Alepisaurus ferox dans le Sud-ouest Pacifique (Cephalopodes). Cahiers O.R.S.T.O.M., Oceanographique, 8(4), 1-87.

Rasero, M., Gonzalez, A.F., & Guerra, A. (1993). First record of Ancistroteuthis lichtensteini (Cephalopoda, Onychoteuthidae) in the European Atlantic waters. Scientia Marina, 57(1), 91-94.

Robinson, A.R., Leslie, W.G., Theocharis, A., & Lascaratos, A. (2001). Mediterranean Sea Circulation Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences, Academic Press, 1689-1706.

Roper, C.F.E, & Jereb, P. (2010). Family Onychoteuthidae. In: P. Jereb & C.F.E. Roper, (Eds.), Cephalopods of the World. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of cephalopods species known to date. Volume 2. Myopsid and Oegopsid squids., FAO, Rome.

Santos, M.B, Pierce, G.J., Herman, J., Lopez, A., Guerra, A., Mente, E., & Clarke, M.R. (2001). Feeding ecology of Cuvier's whale (Ziphius cavirostris): a review with new information on the diet of this species. Journal of the Marine Biological Association UK, 81, 687-694. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025315401004386

Vecchione, M., Young, R.E., & Tsuchiya K. (2008). Ancistroteuthis Gray 1849. Ancistroteuthis lichtensteini (Ferussac, 1835). Retrieved from http://tolweb.org/tolarchive/19952/20080428/Ancistro teuthis_lichtensteinii.html

Villanueva, R. (1992). Deep-sea cephalopods of the northwestern Mediterranean: indications of up-slope ontogenetic migration in two bathybenthic species. Journal of Zoology, 227, 267-276. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1992.tb04822.x

Voss, G.L. (1956) A Review of the Cephalopods of the Gulf of Mexico. Bulletin of Marine Science of the Gulf and Caribbean, 6(2): 85-178.

Würtz, M., Poggi, R., & Clarke, M.R. (1992). Cephalopods from the stomach of a Risso’s dolphin (Grampus griseus) from the Mediterranean. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 72, 861-867. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025315400060094

Xavier, J.C., Phillips, R.A., & Cherel, Y. (2011). Cephalopods in marine predator diet assessments: why identifying upper and lower beaks is important. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 68, 1857-1864. https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsr103

Zore-Armanda, M. (2000) Razvoj fizičke oceanografije na Jadranu. Pomorski zbornik, 38: 301-331.