Ecology Summary - Polititapes rhomboides

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Ecology of Polititapes rhomboides

Main Ref.	Gaspar, M.B., M.N. Santos, P. Vasconcelos and C.C. Monteiro, 2002
Remarks	Found in the coast on sandy beaches. Inhabits gravel to muddy sand, intertidal to a depth of 183 m (Ref. 121863), shallowly buried (Ref. 121870). Also found in a lagoon (Ref. 121876) and in maerl beds in Brittany (Ref. 112062).

Aquatic zones / Water bodies

	Marine - Neritic	Marine - Oceanic	Brackishwater	Freshwater
Marine zones / Brackish and freshwater bodies	supra-littoral zone littoral zone sublittoral zone	epipelagic mesopelagic epipelagic abyssopelagic hadopelagic	estuaries/lagoons/brackish seas mangroves marshes/swamps	rivers/streams lakes/ponds caves exclusively in caves

Highighted items on the list are where Polititapes rhomboides may be found.

Habitat

Substrate	Benthic: endofauna (infauna); Soft Bottom: sand; mud; Hard Bottom;
Substrate Ref.	Hull, S., 1995
Special habitats	Other habitats: burrows;
Special habitats Ref.	Eagar, R.M.C., N.M. Stone and P.A. Dickson, 1984

Associations

Ref.	Gaspar, M.B., M.N. Santos, P. Vasconcelos and C.C. Monteiro, 2002
Associations
Associated with
Association remarks	Also Ref. 2844.
Parasitism

feeding

Feeding type	mainly plants/detritus (troph. 2-2.19)
Feeding type Ref.	Ruppert, E.E., R.S. Fox and R.D. Barnes, 2004
Feeding habit	filtering plankton
Feeding habit Ref.	Ruppert, E.E., R.S. Fox and R.D. Barnes, 2004

Trophic Level(s)

Estimation method	original sample		unfished population		Remark
Estimation method	Troph	s.e.	Troph	s.e.	Remark
From diet composition
From individual food items
Ref.