Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2012
DOI
10.1163/193724012x626520
Publication Title
Journal of Crustacean Biology
Volume
32
Issue
3
Pages
383-394
Abstract
The sexual system of the shrimp Parhippolyte misticia (Clark, 1989), inhabiting the rocky subtidal at Okinawa, Japan and Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea, was examined. Dissections suggested that the population consisted of male phase (MP) and functional simultaneous euhermaphrodite (EH) individuals. MPs have cincinulli and appendices masculinae on the first and second pair of pleopods, respectively, gonopores located at the coxae of the third pair of walking legs, and ovotestes with a well-developed male portion containing sperm, but an undeveloped female portion. EHs lacked appendices masculinae and cincinulli. However, they have male gonopores and ovotestes with well-developed ovaries containing mature oocytes and testes with sperm. When EHs were maintained in pairs, both shrimp molted and spawned eggs which attached below the pleon and developed as embryos, demonstrating that EHs can reproduce as males and inseminate other Elis acting as females. These results demonstrate that P misticia is a protandric simultaneous hermaphrodite, as reported before for other shrimp of the genera Lysmata and Exhippolysmata. Also, these results suggest that protandric simultaneous hermaphroditism might have evolved more than once independently in shrimp from the diverse and species-rich Infraorder Caridea. Future research aimed at disentangling the phylogenetic relationship of Parhippolyte, Lysmata, Exhippolysmata and other closely related genera (Calliasmata, Lysmatella, Barbouria) and describing the sociobiology of additional representatives from the genera above is needed to understand the evolutionary history of sexual systems in caridean shrimp. © The Crustacean Society, 2012.
Rights
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Original Publication Citation
Onaga, H., Fiedler, G. C., & Baeza, J. A. (2012). Protandric simultaneous hermaphroditism in Parhippolyte misticia (Clark, 1989) (Caridea: Hippolytidae): Implications for the evolution of mixed sexual systems in shrimp. Journal of Crustacean Biology, 32(3), 383-394. doi:10.1163/193724012x626520
Repository Citation
Onaga, Hitoshi; Fiedler, G. Curt; and Baeza, J. Antonio, "Protandric Simultaneous Hermaphroditism in Parhippolyte Misticia (Clark, 1989) (Caridea: Hippolytidae): Implications for the Evolution of Mixed Sexual Systems in Shrimp" (2012). Biological Sciences Faculty Publications. 258.
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/biology_fac_pubs/258
ORCID
0000-0002-2573-6773 (Baeza)