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Breeder ID: NOTDIG-092694-SHIRON-002

Date received: 9/26/94

Identification: Notoacmea digitalis (?)

Geographic origin: Pudget Sound

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Taxonomy: (after I.C.Z.N.)

Kingdom Animalia

Phylum Mollusca

Subphylum

Class Gastropoda Subclass Prosobranchia

Order Archeogastropoda Superfamily Pleurotomariacea

Family Notoacmaeidae

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Genus Notoacmaea

Species digitalis

Duration male(yr): 5.0

Size male (mm): 20

Duration female 1 (yr): 5.0

Size female 1 (mm): 20

Broodstock notes: Originally collected from rocky shores, San Juan Island, Washington

Physical differences: None

Adult diet: Diatoms on rock surfaces

Pre-spawning activity: Maintain animals at ~47 F overnight. Place in bowl of fresh seawater and allow to come to ~ 70 F. Animals generally spawn. Eggs fertilized by placing sperm suspension with eggs.

Time spawning began: induced

Area spawning occurred: not particular

Frequency of spawning: weekly during spring

Egg description: Eggs, cloudy; Sperm “smokey poof”

Approximate quantity: 1000

Size: 160 micron

Egg changes / development: Fertilized eggs rinsed using 100 micron nitrex screen with seawater.

Incubation period: none (?)

Time hatching occurred: n/a

Newly hatched appearance: Trochophore form after 20 hours (~ 200 micron). Shelled veliger after 48 hour (~225 micron long)

Transfer / removal method: Eggs and sperm collected in separate containers and mixed for fertilization.

Spawning tank size (liter): 250

Sides of tank covered? No

Lighting & photoperiod: ambient

Filtration: Open system. Tank is 1 x 1 x .25 meters

Additives and dosages: None

Water temperature (F): 48 – 53

Specific gravity: NSW

 

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Fry development / changes: Massive mortality in culture at end of day 7 due to ciliate bloom(?). Remaining larvae (~ 100) settled and metamorphosed at 170 180 hours.

First food offered: non-feeding

Survival

1st week(%): 100

2nd week: 0.5

3rd week: 0.5

4th week: 0.25

Development description: Once larvae settle and metamorphose they live in the “scuz” on the bottom of the tank. Ciliate blooms are common in limpet cultures, possibly from initial water.

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Rearing tank size (liter) 0.25 (beaker)

Lighting & photoperiod: ambient

Filtration: moved to open system 250 liter tank

Additives and dosages: none

Water temperature (F): same

 

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Comments: Water flows through at an exchange rate of 500 liter / hour. Ciliates are believed to feed on unfertilized eggs, then attack embryo and larvae.

Word origins: Not, -a, -ae, -al, -o, =um, (Greek), the back. Acm, =a, (Greek), the highest point, a point. OR acmae, -o, (Greek), flourishing, mature. digit, -al, -I, (Latin), a finger or toe. The common name is finger limpet. The height of a limpets shell is sometimes associated with its position in the intertidal zone (Ricketts, et al, 1985), thus the genus word origins of “back with the highest point”

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