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Comparative physiology of suspension-feeding in living brachiopods and bivalves: evolutionary implications

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 April 2016

Melissa Clark Rhodes  and
R. J. Thompson
Melissa Clark Rhodes
Affiliation:
Department of Malacology, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103
R. J. Thompson
Affiliation:
Ocean Sciences Center, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland, A1C 5S7 Canada
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This paper presents scaling equations relating suspension-feeding rates to body size for articulate brachiopods and bivalve molluscs, two classes which represent a significant component of the fossil record of marine benthic communities. Clearance (feeding) rates of five species of living articulate brachiopods and three species of epifaunal suspension-feeding bivalve molluscs collected from mid-latitude fjords of Newfoundland and New Zealand were measured in similar experimental conditions. In comparisons within and between the two classes, we found that both plectolophous and spirolophous brachiopods had significantly lower feeding rates than mytilids, which are filibranchs, but that a sympatric primitive eulamellibranch veneroid bivalve had rates comparable to the brachiopods. Articulate brachiopods do not appear to feed effectively at the high algal concentrations which bivalves can exploit. The data on comparative suspension-feeding rates support the hypothesis that past changes in diversity and distribution of bivalves and brachiopods may be related to an overall increase in energy flux and escalation of metabolic rates during the Phanerozoic.

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Paleobiology , Volume 19 , Issue 3 , Summer 1993 , pp. 322 - 334
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The Paleontological Society 

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