Ecology Summary - Crassostrea brasiliana

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Ecology of Crassostrea brasiliana

Main Ref.	Pereira, O.M., M.B. Henriques and I.C. Machado, 2003
Remarks	Found in the infralittoral zone (Ref. 101611). Intertidal; occurs in exposed rocky shores. Settles on rocks in the low-tide zone of channels (Ref. 106159). Associated with shore-mud bottoms (Ref. 106180). Attaches and forms aggregations on the aerial roots of mangroves such as Rhizophora mangle, Avicennia and Laguncularia (Ref. 101610). Adapted to estuarine waters (Ref. 101611). In general, suspension feeding bivalves mainly depend on phytoplankton and detritus material for nutrition (Ref. 107088).

Main Ref.

Pereira, O.M., M.B. Henriques and I.C. Machado, 2003

Remarks

Found in the infralittoral zone (Ref. 101611). Intertidal; occurs in exposed rocky shores. Settles on rocks in the low-tide zone of channels (Ref. 106159). Associated with shore-mud bottoms (Ref. 106180). Attaches and forms aggregations on the aerial roots of mangroves such as Rhizophora mangle, Avicennia and Laguncularia (Ref. 101610). Adapted to estuarine waters (Ref. 101611). In general, suspension feeding bivalves mainly depend on phytoplankton and detritus material for nutrition (Ref. 107088).

Aquatic zones / Water bodies

	Marine - Neritic	Marine - Oceanic	Brackishwater	Freshwater
Marine zones / Brackish and freshwater bodies	supra-littoral zone littoral zone sublittoral zone	epipelagic mesopelagic epipelagic abyssopelagic hadopelagic	estuaries/lagoons/brackish seas mangroves marshes/swamps	rivers/streams lakes/ponds caves exclusively in caves

Highighted items on the list are where Crassostrea brasiliana may be found.

Habitat

Substrate	Benthic: sessile; endofauna (infauna); Soft Bottom: mud; Hard Bottom: rocky;
Substrate Ref.	de Melo, A.G.C., E.S. Varela, C.R. Beasley, H. Schneider, I. Sampaio, P.M. Gaffney, K.S. Reece and C.H. Tagliaro, 2010
Special habitats	vegetation ( roots/holdfast, );
Special habitats Ref.	Nascimento, I.A., 1991

Associations

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Parasitism

feeding

Feeding type	mainly plants/detritus (troph. 2-2.19)
Feeding type Ref.	Lüchmann, K.H., M.S. Clark, A.C. Bainy, J.A. Gilbert, J.A. Craft, J.K. Chipman, A.S. Thorne, J.J. Mattos, M.N. Siebert and D. C. Schroeder, 2015
Feeding habit	filtering plankton
Feeding habit Ref.	Lüchmann, K.H., M.S. Clark, A.C. Bainy, J.A. Gilbert, J.A. Craft, J.K. Chipman, A.S. Thorne, J.J. Mattos, M.N. Siebert and D. C. Schroeder, 2015

Trophic Level(s)

Estimation method	original sample		unfished population		Remark
Estimation method	Troph	s.e.	Troph	s.e.	Remark
From diet composition
From individual food items	2.00	0.00			Trophic level and s.e. inferred from exclusive plant/detritus food items.
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