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Temperature sensitivity of oxygen consumption of latitudinally separated Urosalpinx cinerea (Prosobranchia: Muricidae) populations

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Although the oyster drill Urosalpinx cinerea (Say) is often cited as an example of a species which has formed physiological races among populations experiencing different thermal conditions, temperature effects on the respiratory metabolism of this organism have not been studied. Acclimated metabolism-temperature curves were constructed for 4 latitudinally separated populations which include two subspecies. Virginia U. cinerea follyensis, and Massachusetts and Maine U. cinerea cinerea, exhibit the classical pattern of latitudinal compensation of oxygen consumption, apparently due to an inverse size-latitude relationship which is contrary to Bergmann's rule. It is suggested that this anomaly may have resulted from the selective development of a smaller maximum size in the northern populations, although transportation of drills by man along the Atlantic coast has probably confused the situation. For reasons not immediately apparent, the Massachusetts individuals show rates consistently lower than those of the North Carolina, Virginia, and Maine speciments.

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Shick, J.M. Temperature sensitivity of oxygen consumption of latitudinally separated Urosalpinx cinerea (Prosobranchia: Muricidae) populations. Marine Biology 13, 276–283 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00348074

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