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Cephalopod embryonic shells as a tool to reconstruct reproductive strategies in extinct taxa
Author(s) -
Laptikhovsky Vladimir,
Nikolaeva Svetlana,
Rogov Mikhail
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
biological reviews
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.993
H-Index - 165
eISSN - 1469-185X
pISSN - 1464-7931
DOI - 10.1111/brv.12341
Subject(s) - cephalopod , biology , hatchling , taxon , ammonoidea , extant taxon , zoology , evolutionary biology , ecology , paleontology , hatching , mesozoic , structural basin
An exhaustive study of existing data on the relationship between egg size and maximum size of embryonic shells in 42 species of extant cephalopods demonstrated that these values are approximately equal regardless of taxonomy and shell morphology. Egg size is also approximately equal to mantle length of hatchlings in 45 cephalopod species with rudimentary shells. Paired data on the size of the initial chamber versus embryonic shell in 235 species of A mmonoidea, 46 B actritida, 13 N autilida, 22 O rthocerida, 8 T arphycerida, 4 O ncocerida, 1 B elemnoidea, 4 S epiida and 1 S pirulida demonstrated that, although there is a positive relationship between these parameters in some taxa, initial chamber size cannot be used to predict egg size in extinct cephalopods; the size of the embryonic shell may be more appropriate for this task. The evolution of reproductive strategies in cephalopods in the geological past was marked by an increasing significance of small‐egged taxa, as is also seen in simultaneously evolving fish taxa.