Discovery of a chemosynthetic community at the serpentinite-hosted seep on the Quaker Seamount, Mariana Forearc
Chen, C.; Watanabe, H. K.; Castel, J.; Jollivet, D.; Lallier, F. H.; Mathieu-Resuge, M.; Michel, L. N.; Motomura, Y.; Ono, S.; Miyazaki, J.; Takai, K.
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Deep-sea chemosynthesis-based ecosystems in the Mariana Region include hydrothermal vents on the Mariana Arc and in the Mariana Back-Arc, and serpentinite-hosted seeps on the Mariana Forearc - with the latter being by far the least studied. Here, we surveyed the biodiversity of the serpentine seep on the Quaker Seamount. At first glance, the area appears to be devoid of megafauna, but examination of the carbonates revealed dense aggregations of animals dominated by the limpets Bathyacmaea and Pyropelta on brucite-carbonate chimney structures exhibiting visible fluid venting. Sorting of recovered material yielded a total of 14 species and together with an observation of a Munidopsis squat lobster we report a total of 15 species; seven of these are considered endemics of chemosynthetic ecosystems. The occurrence of taxa such as the snail Lurifax japonicus and the limpet Pyropelta ryukyuensis, otherwise only known from distant vents in the Okinawa Trough and Izu-Ogasawara Arc off Japan, strengthens the hypothesis that serpentine seeps may function as dispersal stepping-stones across arc and back-arc systems.
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