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exhibit high variability in rostral length and dentition, the relative rostral length representing the only age-independent and sexually non-dimorphic character. In
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the observed pattern of rostral length variability is similar to the pattern of the atyid shrimp
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coexisting with predatory fish, rostra were significantly longer and the total shrimp population density was much lower than in
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living where fish had no access. Additionally, lower abundances of shrimps with long and short rostra were reported in the localities without and with fish, respectively. Also in four species of the kakadukaridid shrimps,
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, and three undescribed species, positive correlation between the length of the rostrum, the number of rostral teeth, and the presence of predatory fish was demonstrated (John Short, personal communication, 2009). Similar conclusions were drawn by some authors reporting analogous defence mechanisms (i.e. elongated spines) in
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larvae living with predatory fish (
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wrote about lower total density of prey in the case of the co-occurrence with predators. Not only in macroinvertebrates but also in smaller invertebrates (e.g. Rotifera, Cladocera), similar cases of defence mechanisms are known (
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Troglocari
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An overall positive correlation between the shrimps relative rostral length and presence of
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, as well as the results of our feeding behaviour observations indicate that the elongation of the rostrum in
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represents its defence mechanism against the predation of
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. Four possible explanations for such an adaptation exist: (1) the shrimps are responding phenotypically to the presence of predatory kairomones in the water with intensified rostrum growth during ontogeny, (2) in polymorphic populations, the selection favours alleles for a longer rostrum in shrimps occurring with
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, (3) in polymorphic populations, selection acts against a welldeveloped rostrum where it has a cost but provides no advantage, (4) the elongated rostrum is a plesiomorphy, the reduction is caused by “mutational pressure”, where the selection does not counteract the “short rostrum” mutations. While in Cladocera and Rotifera the response of the prey is phenotypically induced by the presence of a predator (
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), in the studies of
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larvae (see above) the authors did not try to explain the mechanism of the prey adaptation. In the case of the mechanisms of eye reduction in subterranean animals the pros and cons of the last two options represent the topic of an ongoing discussion (e.g.
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To avoid biased conclusions owing to different samples sizes, as well as highly variable relative rostral lengths in some populations, the average relative rostral length of each sample has been used for determining a boundary between populations with short and long rostra. A boundary has been set at 43% considering the minimal number of individuals classified outside the predicted group (see
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, under G/O).
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Two gaps in the distribution area of
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have been reported by
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: the gap between Slovenian populations and those in Croatian
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and between populations of northwestern and southeastern
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(i.e. in the Velebit mountains and partially in Lika). Whereas in the northern Dinarides the majority of populations with short rostra have actually been living in the area without
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, i.e. without predatory pressure, in the southern Dinarides only two exceptions from the Adriatic phylogroup have short rostra: a population on the southern border of the Velebit mountains (62) and the nearby island population (64) (see
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). Most populations from the latter phylogroup have long rostra despite a presumable absence of predatory pressure. In samples 69, 65, 66 and 63, however, many shrimps with short rostra are present within samples characterized by their high variation in relative rostral lengths: 2857%, 3657%, 3656% and 3050%, respectively (see
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, under G/O). We have tried to explain deviation from the expected rostral length pattern in the Adriatic phylogroup with the distribution of cave shrimps putative cyprinid fish predators (
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), but without success. High variation in samples mentioned above can be explained (1) by the increased variability in structures not influenced by selection pressure (
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), (2) by a deficient knowledge of actual
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localities, denoting higher preypredator contact than estimated, or (3) because the response of the Adriatic populations on the presence of
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might be different to that in other phylogroups. Irrespective of either phenotypic or genetic induction of the shrimps response, the third option is supported by the genetic distinction of the Adriatic phylogroup. One has to notice that the combination of long rostra and absence of
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is not fatal for shrimps, whereas the opposite situation would probably decrease the shrimps survival rate. It would, however, be energetically costly to produce the long rostra without at least a small biological advantage.
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Apart from the “outliers” from the Adriatic phylogroup, the E-Slo phylogroup population 42 (from
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) with long rostra and single specimens from samples 81 and 90 (from
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) with short rostra (data from
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, no molecular data available; see
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) also show deviation from the expected pattern. The former population is living in a locality with presumably no predatory pressure, whereas in the latter two samples,
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presence is confirmed for the first and questionable for the second location. We would like to point out that
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is, however, known from close proximity to the Slovenian sample 42 (see
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), and that the Italian
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from nearby locations (i.e. 80, 82 for the first and 89 for the second sample mentioned above;
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and
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) all have distinctly longer rostra. It is also true that the Italian localities 81 and 90 are situated on the very border of the
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distribution area,
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being highly endangered (
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). This could mean that the predatory pressure here is lower than in the centre of the distribution area. Other populations examined by Fabjan (
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), including 11 populations from the same localities as examined in the present study, all follow the anticipated rostral length pattern. According to results of our research, the relative rostral length represents an adequate tool for making assumptions about
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presence/absence, also in the samples of
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excluded from our statistical analyses (denoted with “#” in
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because of doubtful absence of
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).
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The increased carapace size in
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co-occurring with the predator is the result not only of the elongation of the rostrum, but also of the significantly larger postorbital carapace length. On the other hand, the main factor for the increased carapace size in
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populations living with predatory fish seems to be the elongation of the rostrum (evident from fig.
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). Also in shrimps from the Adriatic phylogroup that are on average smaller (in comparison to the shrimps from the W-Slo and the E-Slo phylogroups), body size increases upon co-occurrence with
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. An increase in size serving as a defence mechanism has already been reported in the green alga
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(
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)
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; its consumer
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(
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: Phyllopoda) elicits changes in
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, which render the alga too large to be ingested.
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<emphasis id="B938EAF6F70AFF8FFF08FD8DDA76FB00" bold="true" box="[144,1078,543,567]" pageId="21" pageNumber="2528">
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<emphasis id="B938EAF6F70AFF8FFF74FD8DDC86FB00" bold="true" box="[236,710,543,567]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="2528">impact on the morphology of the subgenera</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B938EAF6F70AFF8FFCC6FD8DDDC6FB00" bold="true" box="[862,902,543,567]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="2528">and</emphasis>
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</emphasis>
</paragraph>
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In the Dinarides where
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<emphasis id="B938EAF6F70AFF8FFE01FDD5DC59FB68" box="[409,537,583,607]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="2528">Troglocaris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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is widespread, other species of cave shrimps also occur. Although they mainly exhibit similar morphometric response to the presence of
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<emphasis id="B938EAF6F70AFF8FFF2BFD15DF48FBA8" box="[179,264,647,671]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="2528">Proteus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(see
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), the values are not consistent with values obtained for
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<emphasis id="B938EAF6F70AFF8FFF08FD35DF50FB88" box="[144,272,679,703]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="2528">Troglocaris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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Insufficient data did not allow adequate statistical analysis.
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<emphasis id="B938EAF6F70AFF8FFC64FD35DF9CFBE8" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="2528">Troglocaris (Spelaeocaris) kapelana</emphasis>
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, from Lika (
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) and its yet undescribed sister species,
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T. (
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)
</emphasis>
sp. (
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), from Bosanska Krajina (
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) coexist with
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<emphasis id="B938EAF6F70AFF8FFD2AFC95DD47FA28" box="[690,775,775,799]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="2528">Proteus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. They both have long rostra bearing sparse, large spines. In
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<emphasis id="B938EAF6F70AFF8FFE77FCB5DCE6FA08" box="[495,678,807,831]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="2528">T. (S.) prasence</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
samples, specimens with long as well as with short rostra are found, although no data on
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<emphasis id="B938EAF6F70AFF8FFC62FCD5DA10FA68" box="[1018,1104,839,863]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="2528">Proteus</emphasis>
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presence is available. In samples close to the known
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<emphasis id="B938EAF6F70AFF8FFC8CFCF5DD29FA48" box="[788,873,871,895]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="2528">Proteus</emphasis>
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localities (i.e. with known hydrological underground connections), relative rostral length surpasses that registered in localities isolated from known
<taxonomicName id="4C4C4D67F70AFF8FFD09FC35DCA6FA88" box="[657,742,935,959]" class="Amphibia" family="Proteidae" genus="Proteus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Caudata" pageId="21" pageNumber="2528" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B938EAF6F70AFF8FFD09FC35DCA6FA88" box="[657,742,935,959]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="2528">Proteus</emphasis>
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localities: 3357% CL (
<emphasis id="B938EAF6F70AFF8FFB98FC35DA4DFA88" box="[1024,1037,935,959]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="2528">n</emphasis>
= 15) and 1927% CL (
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= 6), respectively. For some specimens from one of
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<emphasis id="B938EAF6F70AFF8FFC5FFC55DA5DFAE8" box="[967,1053,967,991]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="2528">Proteus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
-free localities (Rijeka Crnojeviča,
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), not only a shortened rostrum but also a rostrum without any teeth is characteristic. Specimens of
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<emphasis id="B938EAF6F70AFF8FFCBDFB95DA0FFD28" box="[805,1103,1031,1055]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="2528">T. (Spelaeocaris) neglecta</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
, known from just a few
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<emphasis id="B938EAF6F70AFF8FFD28FBB5DD45FD08" box="[688,773,1063,1087]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="2528">Proteus</emphasis>
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-free localities, all have short rostra without teeth and they are smaller than
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<emphasis id="B938EAF6F70AFF8FFD05FBD5DD5DFD68" box="[669,797,1095,1119]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="2528">Troglocaris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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specimens.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF336E4F70AFF8FFF22FBFADD8AFDE8" blockId="21.[144,1105,583,1536]" pageId="21" pageNumber="2528">
In the only species of the subgenus
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<emphasis id="B938EAF6F70AFF8FFDD1FBF5DCB3FD48" box="[585,755,1127,1151]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="2528">Troglocaridella</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, the situation is similar to that seen in
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<emphasis id="B938EAF6F70AFF8FFF71FB15DFE6FDA8" box="[233,422,1159,1183]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="2528">T. (S.) prasence</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
: the rostrum is longer in samples from caves inhabited by
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<emphasis id="B938EAF6F70AFF8FFF08FB35DEA6FD88" box="[144,230,1191,1215]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="2528">Proteus</emphasis>
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or hydrologically connected caves (2557% CL, with 11% and 20% CL, exceptions;
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= 22) than in the
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<emphasis id="B938EAF6F70AFF8FFE74FB55DC02FDE8" box="[492,578,1223,1247]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="2528">Proteus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
-free localities (1123% CL,
<emphasis id="B938EAF6F70AFF8FFC18FB55DDCDFDE8" box="[896,909,1223,1247]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="2528">n</emphasis>
= 5).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF336E4F70AFF8FFF22FB75DFFBFCA8" blockId="21.[144,1105,583,1536]" pageId="21" pageNumber="2528">
While the carapace length in adult
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<emphasis id="B938EAF6F70AFF8FFDF0FB75DD52FDC8" box="[616,786,1255,1279]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="2528">Troglocaridella</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is similar to the carapace length of
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<emphasis id="B938EAF6F70AFF8FFF64FA95DF3CFC28" box="[252,380,1287,1311]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="2528">Troglocaris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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, the carapace is on average longer in
<emphasis id="B938EAF6F70AFF8FFCF3FA95DA69FC28" box="[875,1065,1287,1311]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="2528">
T. (S).
<taxonomicName id="4C4C4D67F70AFF8FFC5DFA95DA69FC28" authorityName="Sket and Zaksek" authorityYear="2009" box="[965,1065,1287,1311]" class="Malacostraca" family="Atyidae" genus="Troglocaris" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="21" pageNumber="2528" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="kapelana">kapelana</taxonomicName>
</emphasis>
,
<emphasis id="B938EAF6F70AFF8FFBAFFA95DE82FC08" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="2528">T. (S.)</emphasis>
sp.,
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<emphasis id="B938EAF6F70AFF8FFF63FAB5DFF7FC08" box="[251,439,1319,1343]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="2528">T. (S.) prasence</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and in
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<emphasis id="B938EAF6F70AFF8FFD8AFAB5DC86FC08" box="[530,710,1319,1343]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="2528">T. (S.) pretneri</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Perhaps this is compensation for the lack of a long rostrum, particularly in
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<emphasis id="B938EAF6F70AFF8FFDE4FADADD70FC57" box="[636,816,1352,1376]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="2528">T. (S.) pretneri</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, which is on average the largest species of the Dinaric cave shrimps. For such a conclusion, larger samples and further studies are needed.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF336E4F70AFF8FFF22FA35DA5DFF37" blockId="21.[144,1105,583,1536]" pageId="21" pageNumber="2528">
All the above examples of the genera
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<emphasis id="B938EAF6F70AFF8FFDC9FA3ADC8CFCF7" box="[593,716,1448,1472]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="2528">Troglocaris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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,
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and
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confirm the assumption that the relationship between predation and rostral length is a widespread phenomenon in shrimps, making this structure less useful for taxonomy.
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<emphasis id="B938EAF6F70AFF8FFF08F9ADDF90FF60" bold="true" box="[144,464,1599,1623]" pageId="21" pageNumber="2528">
<emphasis id="B938EAF6F70AFF8FFF08F9ADDF33FF60" bold="true" box="[144,371,1599,1623]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="2528">Feeding efficiency of</emphasis>
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Both
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recognized
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<emphasis id="B938EAF6F70AFF8FFE31F9FADC69FFB7" box="[425,553,1640,1664]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="2528">Troglocaris</emphasis>
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as prey although shrimps had never been offered to them during the last 20 years of captivity. Their behaviour did not change throughout the experiment. Furthermore, the small size of the experimental arena did not interact with the exhibition of their natural behaviour because the identical predation behaviour has already been observed in much larger laboratory pools (Aljančič, personal observation) and in nature (e. g.
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). Besides, the animals adaptation to occupy narrow crevices is well expressed in its shape and its behaviour.
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In most cases the time needed for swallowing the shrimp with a rostrum was longer, but with obvious individual differences between both analysed predators. The spitting-out reaction was not recorded by the camera, but as it was witnessed by the first author in one
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<emphasis id="B938EAF6F709FF8CFE2EFE35DC4BF888" box="[438,523,423,447]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="2529">Proteus</emphasis>
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, we believe such a reaction might occur in a negligible number of cases. Since predatorprey interactions are usually very complex, different equilibria between the prey and the predator may establish (see
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, for review). The consequences of the shrimps armament can therefore be anticipated, but we cannot conceive its influence upon selection. The situation is similar to the results of a laboratory test reported by
<bibRefCitation id="EFDD4B15F709FF8CFD4AFDD5DA23FB68" author="Johansson F &amp; Samuelsson L" box="[722,1123,583,607]" pageId="22" pageNumber="2529" pagination="74 - 79" refId="ref12395" refString="Johansson F, Samuelsson L. 1994. Fish-induced variation in abdominal spine length of Leucorrhinia dubia (Odonata) larvae? Oecologia 100: 74 - 79." type="journal article" year="1994">Johansson and Samuelsson (1994)</bibRefCitation>
: the European perch (
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Linnaeus, 1758
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) succeeded in devouring the shortspined larvae of
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<emphasis id="B938EAF6F709FF8CFE02FD15DC30FBA8" box="[410,624,647,671]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="2529">Leucorrhinia dubia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
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) significantly faster and more easily than the long-spined larvae. Furthermore, our results indicate that the shrimps are not easy prey to catch. None of the successful
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<emphasis id="B938EAF6F709FF8CFD72FD55DD7FFBE8" box="[746,831,711,735]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="2529">Proteus</emphasis>
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attacks on shrimps with long rostra were accomplished from the front of the shrimp whereas numerous unsuccessful attacks were recorded. In addition, the most frequent escape reaction of the shrimp approached by
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was quick backward swimming. Hypothetically this would increase the survival rate in shrimps, especially when their main defence is frontal as described in
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<emphasis id="B938EAF6F709FF8CFEFAFCF5DFA2FA48" box="[354,482,871,895]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="2529">Troglocaris</emphasis>
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.
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We acknowledge the possibility that the artificially shortened rostra might have affected the shrimps behaviour, leading to faster consumption by
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. Nevertheless, we believe it is highly improbable as shrimps were given time to recover before the experiment, and no visible change in their behaviour was observed after amputation. Moreover, shrimps collected in the field frequently had broken rostra, without other visible effects. No evidence of the unsuccessful
<taxonomicName id="4C4C4D67F709FF8CFC94FBB5DD22FD08" box="[780,866,1063,1087]" class="Amphibia" family="Proteidae" genus="Proteus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Caudata" pageId="22" pageNumber="2529" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B938EAF6F709FF8CFC94FBB5DD22FD08" box="[780,866,1063,1087]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="2529">Proteus</emphasis>
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attacks causing breakage could be gathered in the field. As only a high survival rate would be beneficial for the shrimps after the predators attack, we think that clipping the rostrum has little effect on the shrimps.
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<emphasis id="B938EAF6F709FF8CFF4CFB4DDA5FFDC0" bold="true" box="[212,1055,1247,1271]" pageId="22" pageNumber="2529">
<emphasis id="B938EAF6F709FF8CFF4CFB4DDD2BFDC0" bold="true" box="[212,875,1247,1271]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="2529">Taxonomical consequences of rostral variability in the genus</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B938EAF6F709FF8CFC60FB4DDA5FFDC0" bold="true" box="[1016,1055,1247,1271]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="2529">
<taxonomicNameLabel id="A20B578DF709FF8CFC60FB4DDA5FFDC0" box="[1016,1055,1247,1271]" pageId="22" pageNumber="2529" sensu="lato">s. l.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
</emphasis>
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Rostral variability within each of the analysed phylogroups is high, so applying rostrum morphology to the taxonomy of
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<emphasis id="B938EAF6F709FF8CFD0FFABADD57FC77" box="[663,791,1320,1344]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="2529">Troglocaris</emphasis>
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as a major or even a sole character is inappropriate.
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Although great importance was placed on the rostrum in caridean taxonomy (e.g. see
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), separation of taxa by rostral length and dentition led to some incorrect taxonomic decisions and misidentifications. In
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<emphasis id="B938EAF6F709FF8CFCC9FA3ADD88FCF7" box="[849,968,1448,1472]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="2529">Xiphocaris</emphasis>
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as many as three species were defined solely by rostral lengths:
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Guerin
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<emphasis id="B938EAF6F709FF8CFEBCFA7ADF6DFF37" box="[292,301,1512,1536]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="2529">-</emphasis>
Meneville, 1855,
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Pocock, 1889
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and
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<emphasis id="B938EAF6F709FF8CFC2BFA7ADEB8FF17" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="2529">Xiphocaris brevirostris</emphasis>
Pocock, 1889
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. It is not impossible that these species are in fact identical with some long- and short-rostrum forms of
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. The latter authors, however, did not indicate whether their
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forms were phenotypically caused morphs or genetically fixed races.
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<emphasis id="B938EAF6F708FF8DFF22FF35DFD7F988" box="[186,407,167,191]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="2530">Troglocaris schmidti</emphasis>
Dormitzer var.
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of the subgenus
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(
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) was described from
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(59) by its smaller size and shorter rostrum in comparison with the
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population from the
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Slovene
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Kompoljska jama (35).
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) treated the
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population as a subspecies,
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.
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the results of our study, diagnosis of the subspecies is highly inaccurate because most other
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populations living in caves without
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<emphasis id="B938EAF6F708FF8DFCDEFEF5DDDBF848" box="[838,923,359,383]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="2530">Proteus</emphasis>
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share the same morphological characteristics.
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fact, many populations with short rostra are more related to populations with long rostra than to the population of
<emphasis id="B938EAF6F708FF8DFCF7FE35DA5EF888" box="[879,1054,423,447]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="2530">T. a. intermedia</emphasis>
(see
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and
<figureCitation id="13772A61F708FF8DFE84FE55DF3EF8E8" box="[284,382,455,479]" captionStart="Figure 4" captionStartId="16.[212,280,1347,1369]" captionTargetBox="[214,1169,169,1316]" captionTargetId="figure-135@16.[213,1170,168,1317]" captionTargetPageId="16" captionText="Figure 4. Coincidence between the relative rostral length in Troglocaris s. str. and co-occurrence of Proteus sp. Sample numbers are as in Table 1; diamonds and plus symbols denote samples with relative rostrum average &lt;43% and&gt; 43%, respectively; asterisks (*) denote samples of T. bosnica. SLO, Slovenia; I, Italy; CRO, Croatia; BIH, Bosnia and Herzegovina." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5210585" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5210585/files/figure.png" pageId="23" pageNumber="2530">Figure 4</figureCitation>
).
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The genus
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<emphasis id="B938EAF6F708FF8DFEAFFE75DFFCF8C8" box="[311,444,487,511]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="2530">Spelaeocaris</emphasis>
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(now a subgenus,
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) was also mainly defined by its very short rostrum (
<bibRefCitation id="EFDD4B15F708FF8DFE65FD95DCE5FB28" author="Matjasic J" box="[509,677,519,543]" pageId="23" pageNumber="2530" pagination="65 - 68" refId="ref12583" refString="Matjasic J. 1956 a. Ein neuer Hohlendecapode aus Jugoslawien. Zool. Anz. 157: 65 - 68." type="journal article" year="1956">Matjašič 1956a</bibRefCitation>
, b). Nowadays, species with long rostra are also known to belong to the aforementioned subgenus (see
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).
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High rostral variability within
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<emphasis id="B938EAF6F708FF8DFD80FDD5DCD8FB68" box="[536,664,583,607]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="2530">Troglocaris</emphasis>
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phylogroups 15 does not allow universal separation among the phylogroups, neither by the rostral length, nor by shape. Rostral length and/or shape and dentition are proven to be adequate taxonomic characters only in
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.
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, despite its variability in rostral length.
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has always at least 10, usually between 13 and 16 teeth (or even more) ventrally on its long rostrum. On the other hand, specimens from the
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phylogroups 15, have mainly 09 ventral rostrum teeth. In less than 1% of cases examined in our study, the number is 1013 (see also
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). Rostral shape only allows recognition of certain populations within some phylogroups (see Results).
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