Habitat Partitioning in Two Intertidal Limpets, <i>Siphonaria guamensis</i> (Heterobranchia) and <i>Patelloida saccharina</i> (Patellogastropoda), from Southern Thailand.

ABSTRACT: Mobile intertidal animals exhibit various strategies during emersion to mediate the impact of heat and desiccation, including behavioural adaptations such as moving to lower tidal levels and seeking thermal refuges, which can result in spatial partitioning between species within the intertidal environment. We tested whether the limpets Siphonaria guamensis (Heterobranchia) and Patelloida saccharina (Patellogastropoda) exhibited differential habitat use during tidal emersion by quantifying their abundance and size distribution in various habitats on two rocky shores on the west coast of Thailand. S. guamensis inhabited higher shore levels with hotter average rock temperatures when emersed as compared to P. saccharina. On one of the shores, large S. guamensis</

SUBMITTER: Sangphueak S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11629110 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature