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Marine life
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The plants, animals and other organisms that live in the salt water of the sea or ocean, or the brackish water of coastal estuaries
General characteristics of a large marine ecosystem (Gulf of Alaska)
Killer whales (orca) are marine apex predators. They hunt practically anything, including tuna, smaller sharks and seals. However, the oceans are alive with less obvious, but equally important forms of marine life, such as bacteria.
Marine life, or sea life or ocean life, is the plants, animals and other organisms that live in the salt water of the sea or ocean, or the brackish water of coastal estuaries. At a fundamental level, marine life helps determine the very nature of our planet. Marine organisms produce much of the oxygen we breathe. Shorelines are in part shaped and protected by marine life, and some marine organisms even help create new land.
Most life forms evolved initially in marine habitats. Oceans provide about 99 percent of the living space on the planet.[1] The earliest vertebrates appeared in the form of fish, which live exclusively in water. Some of these evolved into amphibians which spend portions of their lives in water and portions on land. Other fish evolved into land mammals and subsequently returned to the ocean as seals, dolphins or whales. Plant forms such as kelp and algae grow in the water and are the basis for some underwater ecosystems. Plankton, and particularly phytoplankton, are key primary producers forming the general foundation of the ocean food chain.
Marine vertebrates must obtain oxygen to survive, and they do so in various ways. Fish have gills instead of lungs, although some species of fish, such as the lungfish, have both. Marine mammals, such as dolphins, whales, otters, and seals need to surface periodically to breathe air. Some amphibians are able to absorb oxygen through their skin. Invertebrates exhibit a wide range of modifications to survive in poorly oxygenated waters including breathing tubes (see insect and mollusc siphons) and gills (Carcinus). However, as invertebrate life evolved in an aquatic habitat most have little or no specialisation for respiration in water.
Altogether there are 230,000 documented marine species, including about 20,000 species of fish, and it has been estimated that nearly two million marine species are yet to be documented.[2] Marine species range in size from the microscopic, including plankton and phytoplankton which can be as small as 0.02 micrometres, to huge cetaceans (whales, dolphins and porpoises) which in the case of the blue whale reach up to 33 metres (109 feet) in length, being the largest known animal.[3][4]
Contents
1 Water
2 Evolution
3 Marine microorganisms
3.1 Marine viruses
3.2 Marine bacteria
3.3 Marine archaea
3.4 Marine protists
3.5 Other
4 Marine algae and plants
5 Marine fungi
6 Invertebrates
6.1 Marine sponges
6.2 Marine cnidarians
6.3 Marine worms
6.4 Echinoderms
6.5 Marine molluscs
6.6 Marine arthropods
6.7 Others
7 Vertebrates
7.1 Fish
7.1.1 Jawless fish
7.1.2 Cartilaginous
7.1.3 Bony
7.2 Marine tetrapods
7.2.1 Amphibians
7.2.2 Reptiles
7.2.3 Birds
7.2.4 Mammals
8 Plankton
9 Land interactions
10 Biogeochemical cycles
11 Biodiversity and extinction events
12 Marine biology
13 See also
14 Notes
15 References
16 Further references
Water[edit]
Elevation histogram of Earth's surface
Main article: Hydrosphere
There is no life without water, which has been characterised as the "solvent of life".[5] The Nobel prize winner Albert Szent-Györgyi referred to water as the mater und matrix, the mother and womb of life.[6]
The abundance of water on earth's surface is a unique feature that distinguishes earth from other planets in the Solar System. Earth's hydrosphere consists chiefly of the oceans, but technically includes all water surfaces in the world, including inland seas, lakes, rivers, and underground waters down to a depth of 2,000 m. The deepest underwater location is Challenger Deep of the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean with a depth of 10,911.4 m.[note 1][7]
The mass of the oceans is approximately 1.35×1018 metric tons, or about 1/4400 of Earth's total mass. The oceans cover an area of 7014361800000000000♠3.618×108 km2 with a mean depth of 7003368200000000000♠3682 m, resulting in an estimated volume of 7018133200000000000♠1.332×109 km3.[8] If all of Earth's crustal surface was at the same elevation as a smooth sphere, the depth of the resulting world ocean would be 2.7 to 2.8 km.[9][10]
About 97.5% of the water is saline; the remaining 2.5% is fresh water. Most fresh water, about 68.7%, is present as ice in ice caps and glaciers.[11] The average salinity of Earth's oceans is about 35 grams of salt per kilogram of sea water (3.5% salt).[12] Most of this salt was released from volcanic activity or extracted from cool igneous rocks.[13] The oceans are also a reservoir of dissolved atmospheric gases, which are essential for the survival of many aquatic life forms.[14] Sea water has an important influence on the world's climate, with the oceans acting as a large heat reservoir.[15] Shifts in the oceanic temperature distribution can cause significant weather shifts, such as the El Niño-Southern Oscillation.[16]
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Further information: Evolutionary history of life and Timeline of evolutionary history of life
The Earth is about 4.54 billion years old.[17][18][19] The earliest undisputed evidence of life on Earth dates from at least 3.5 billion years ago,[20][21] during the Eoarchean Era after a geological crust started to solidify following the earlier molten Hadean Eon. Microbial mat fossils have been found in 3.48 billion-year-old sandstone in Western Australia.[22][23][24] Other early physical evidence of a biogenic substance is graphite in 3.7 billion-year-old metasedimentary rocks discovered in Western Greenland[25] as well as "remains of biotic life" found in 4.1 billion-year-old rocks in Western Australia.[26][27] According to one of the researchers, "If life arose relatively quickly on Earth … then it could be common in the universe."[26]
All organisms on Earth are descended from a common ancestor or ancestral gene pool.[28][29] Highly energetic chemistry is thought to have produced a self-replicating molecule around 4 billion years ago, and half a billion years later the last common ancestor of all life existed.[30] The current scientific consensus is that the complex biochemistry that makes up life came from simpler chemical reactions.[31] The beginning of life may have included self-replicating molecules such as RNA[32] and the assembly of simple cells.[33]
Current species are a stage in the process of evolution, with their diversity the product of a long series of speciation and extinction events.[34] The common descent of organisms was first deduced from four simple facts about organisms: First, they have geographic distributions that cannot be explained by local adaptation. Second, the diversity of life is not a set of completely unique organisms, but organisms that share morphological similarities. Third, vestigial traits with no clear purpose resemble functional ancestral traits and finally, that organisms can be classified using these similarities into a hierarchy of nested groups—similar to a family tree.[35] However, modern research has suggested that, due to horizontal gene transfer, this "tree of life" may be more complicated than a simple branching tree since some genes have spread independently between distantly related species.[36][37]
Past species have also left records of their evolutionary history. Fossils, along with the comparative anatomy of present-day organisms, constitute the morphological, or anatomical, record.[38] By comparing the anatomies of both modern and extinct species, paleontologists can infer the lineages of those species. However, this approach is most successful for organisms that had hard body parts, such as shells, bones or teeth. Further, as prokaryotes such as bacteria and archaea share a limited set of common morphologies, their fossils do not provide information on their ancestry.
Evolutionary tree showing the divergence of modern species from their common ancestor in the centre.[39] The three domains are coloured, with bacteria blue, archaea green and eukaryotes red.
More recently, evidence for common descent has come from the study of biochemical similarities between organisms. For example, all living cells use the same basic set of nucleotides and amino acids.[40] The development of molecular genetics has revealed the record of evolution left in organisms' genomes: dating when species diverged through the molecular clock produced by mutations.[41] For example, these DNA sequence comparisons have revealed that humans and chimpanzees share 98% of their genomes and analysing the few areas where they differ helps shed light on when the common ancestor of these species existed.[42]
Prokaryotes inhabited the Earth from approximately 3–4 billion years ago.[43][44] No obvious changes in morphology or cellular organisation occurred in these organisms over the next few billion years.[45] The eukaryotic cells emerged between 1.6–2.7 billion years ago. The next major change in cell structure came when bacteria were engulfed by eukaryotic cells, in a cooperative association called endosymbiosis.[46][47] The engulfed bacteria and the host cell then underwent coevolution, with the bacteria evolving into either mitochondria or hydrogenosomes.[48] Another engulfment of cyanobacterial-like organisms led to the formation of chloroplasts in algae and plants.[49]
Phylogenetic and symbiogenetic tree of living organisms, showing the origins of eukaryotes and prokaryotes
The history of life was that of the unicellular eukaryotes, prokaryotes and archaea until about 610 million years ago when multicellular organisms began to appear in the oceans in the Ediacaran period.[43][50] The evolution of multicellularity occurred in multiple independent events, in organisms as diverse as sponges, brown algae, cyanobacteria, slime moulds and myxobacteria.[51] In January 2016, scientists reported that, about 800 million years ago, a minor genetic change in a single molecule called GK-PID may have allowed organisms to go from a single cell organism to one of many cells.[52]
Soon after the emergence of these first multicellular organisms, a remarkable amount of biological diversity appeared over approximately 10 million years, in an event called the Cambrian explosion. Here, the majority of types of modern animals appeared in the fossil record, as well as unique lineages that subsequently became extinct.[53] Various triggers for the Cambrian explosion have been proposed, including the accumulation of oxygen in the atmosphere from photosynthesis.[54]
About 500 million years ago, plants and fungi started colonising the land. Evidence for the appearance of the first land plants occurs in the Ordovician, around 450 million years ago, in the form of fossil spores.[55] Land plants began to diversify in the Late Silurian, from around 430 million years ago.[56] The colonisation of the land by plants was soon followed by arthropods and other animals.[57] Insects were particularly successful and even today make up the majority of animal species.[58] Amphibians first appeared around 364 million years ago, followed by early amniotes and birds around 155 million years ago (both from "reptile"-like lineages), mammals around 129 million years ago, homininae around 10 million years ago and modern humans around 250,000 years ago.[59][60][61] However, despite the evolution of these large animals, smaller organisms similar to the types that evolved early in this process continue to be highly successful and dominate the Earth, with the majority of both biomass and species being prokaryotes.[62]
Estimates on the number of Earth's current species range from 10 million to 14 million,[63] of which about 1.2 million have been documented and over 86 percent have not yet been described.[64]
Marine microorganisms[edit]
microbial mats
Microbial mats are the earliest form of life on Earth for which there is good fossil evidence. The image shows a cyanobacterial-algal mat.
Stromatolites are formed from microbial mats as microbes slowly move upwards to avoid being smothered by sediment.
Main article: Marine microorganism
See also: Evolution of cells
Microorganisms constitute more than 90% of the marine biomass. A microorganism (or microbe) is a microscopic living organism, which may be single-celled[65] or multicellular. Microorganisms are very diverse and include all bacteria, archaea and most protozoa. This group also contains some species of fungi, algae, and certain microscopic animals, such as rotifers.
Many macroscopic animals and plants have microscopic juvenile stages. Some microbiologists also classify viruses (and viroids) as microorganisms, but others consider these as nonliving.[66][67] In July 2016, scientists reported identifying a set of 355 genes from the last universal common ancestor (LUCA) of all life, including microorganisms, living on Earth.[68]
Marine microbial loop
Microorganisms are crucial to nutrient recycling in ecosystems as they act as decomposers. A small proportion of microorganisms are pathogenic, causing disease and even death in plants and animals.[69] As inhabitants of the largest environment on Earth, microbial marine systems drive changes in every global system. Microbes are responsible for virtually all the photosynthesis that occurs in the ocean, as well as the cycling of carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus and other nutrients and trace elements.[70]
Microscopic life undersea is incredibly diverse and still poorly understood. For example, the role of viruses in marine ecosystems is barely being explored even in the beginning of the 21st century.[71]
A teaspoon of seawater contains about one million viruses.[72] Most of these are bacteriophages, which are harmless to plants and animals, and are in fact essential to the regulation of saltwater and freshwater ecosystems.[73] They infect and destroy bacteria in aquatic microbial communities, and are the most important mechanism of recycling carbon in the marine environment. The organic molecules released from the dead bacterial cells stimulate fresh bacterial and algal growth.[74] Viral activity may also contribute to the biological pump, the process whereby carbon is sequestered in the deep ocean.[75]
Marine bacteriophages are viruses that live as obligate parasitic agents in marine bacteria such as cyanobacteria.[76] Their existence was discovered through electron microscopy and epifluorescence microscopy of ecological water samples, and later through metagenomic sampling of uncultured viral samples.[76][77] The tailed bacteriophages appear to dominate marine ecosystems in number and diversity of organisms.[76] However, viruses belonging to families Corticoviridae,[78] Inoviridae[79] and Microviridae[80] are also known to infect diverse marine bacteria. Metagenomic evidence suggests that microviruses (icosahedral ssDNA phages) are particularly prevalent in marine habitats.[80]
Bacteriophages, viruses that are parasitic on bacteria, were first discovered in the early twentieth century. Scientists today consider that their importance in ecosystems, particularly marine ecosystems, has been underestimated, leading to these infectious agents being poorly investigated and their numbers and species biodiversity being greatly under reported.[81]
Microscopic organisms live in every part of the biosphere. The mass of prokaryote microorganisms — which includes bacteria and archaea, but not the nucleated eukaryote microorganisms — may be as much as 0.8 trillion tons of carbon (of the total biosphere mass, estimated at between 1 and 4 trillion tons).[82] Barophilic marine microbes have been found at more than a depth of 10,000 m (33,000 ft; 6.2 mi) in the Mariana Trench, the deepest spot in the Earth's oceans.[83] In fact, single-celled life forms have been found in the deepest part of the Mariana Trench, by the Challenger Deep, at depths of 11,034 m (36,201 ft; 6.856 mi).[84][85][86] Other researchers reported related studies that microorganisms thrive inside rocks up to 580 m (1,900 ft; 0.36 mi) below the sea floor under 2,590 m (8,500 ft; 1.61 mi) of ocean off the coast of the northwestern United States,[85][87] as well as 2,400 m (7,900 ft; 1.5 mi) beneath the seabed off Japan.[88] The greatest known temperature at which microbial life can exist is 122 °C (252 °F) (Methanopyrus kandleri).[89] On 20 August 2014, scientists confirmed the existence of microorganisms living 800 m (2,600 ft; 0.50 mi) below the ice of Antarctica.[90][91] According to one researcher, "You can find microbes everywhere — they're extremely adaptable to conditions, and survive wherever they are."[85]
Marine viruses[edit]
Transmission electron micrograph of multiple bacteriophages attached to a bacterial cell wall
See also: Marine bacteriophage and Viral evolution
A virus is a small infectious agent that replicates only inside the living cells of other organisms. Viruses can infect all types of life forms, from animals and plants to microorganisms, including bacteria and archaea.[92]
When not inside an infected cell or in the process of infecting a cell, viruses exist in the form of independent particles. These viral particles, also known as virions, consist of two or three parts: (i) the genetic material made from either DNA or RNA, long molecules that carry genetic information; (ii) a protein coat, called the capsid, which surrounds and protects the genetic material; and in some cases (iii) an envelope of lipids that surrounds the protein coat when they are outside a cell. The shapes of these virus particles range from simple helical and icosahedral forms for some virus species to more complex structures for others. Most virus species have virions that are too small to be seen with an optical microscope. The average virion is about one one-hundredth the size of the average bacterium.
The origins of viruses in the evolutionary history of life are unclear: some may have evolved from plasmids—pieces of DNA that can move between cells—while others may have evolved from bacteria. In evolution, viruses are an important means of horizontal gene transfer, which increases genetic diversity.[93] Viruses are considered by some to be a life form, because they carry genetic material, reproduce, and evolve through natural selection. However they lack key characteristics (such as cell structure) that are generally considered necessary to count as life. Because they possess some but not all such qualities, viruses have been described as "organisms at the edge of life"[94] and as replicators.[95]
Viruses are found wherever there is life and have probably existed since living cells first evolved.[96] The origin of viruses is unclear because they do not form fossils, so molecular techniques have been used to compare the DNA or RNA of viruses and are a useful means of investigating how they arose.[97]
Viruses are now recognised as ancient and as having origins that pre-date the divergence of life into the three domains.[98]
Opinions differ on whether viruses are a form of life, or organic structures that interact with living organisms.[99] They have been described as "organisms at the edge of life",[94] since they resemble organisms in that they possess genes, evolve by natural selection,[100] and reproduce by creating multiple copies of themselves through self-assembly. Although they have genes, they do not have a cellular structure, which is often seen as the basic unit of life. Viruses do not have their own metabolism, and require a host cell to make new products. They therefore cannot naturally reproduce outside a host cell.[101]
Bacterial viruses, called bacteriophages, are a common and diverse group of viruses and are the most abundant form of biological entity in aquatic environments – there are up to ten times more of these viruses in the oceans than there are bacteria,[102] reaching levels of 250,000,000 bacteriophages per millilitre of seawater.[103]
There are also archaean viruses which replicate within archaea: these are double-stranded DNA viruses with unusual and sometimes unique shapes.[104][105] These viruses have been studied in most detail in the thermophilic archaea, particularly the orders Sulfolobales and Thermoproteales.[106]
A teaspoon of seawater contains about one million viruses.[72] Most of these are bacteriophages, which are harmless to plants and animals, and are in fact essential to the regulation of saltwater and freshwater ecosystems.[73] They infect and destroy bacteria in aquatic microbial communities, and are the most important mechanism of recycling carbon in the marine environment. The organic molecules released from the dead bacterial cells stimulate fresh bacterial and algal growth.[74] Viral activity may also contribute to the biological pump, the process whereby carbon is sequestered in the deep ocean.[75]
Microorganisms constitute more than 90% of the biomass in the sea. It is estimated that viruses kill approximately 20% of this biomass each day and that there are 15 times as many viruses in the oceans as there are bacteria and archaea. Viruses are the main agents responsible for the rapid destruction of harmful algal blooms,[107] which often kill other marine life.[108] The number of viruses in the oceans decreases further offshore and deeper into the water, where there are fewer host organisms.[75]
Viruses are an important natural means of transferring genes between different species, which increases genetic diversity and drives evolution.[93] It is thought that viruses played a central role in the early evolution, before the diversification of bacteria, archaea and eukaryotes, at the time of the last universal common ancestor of life on Earth.[109] Viruses are still one of the largest reservoirs of unexplored genetic diversity on Earth.[75]
Marine bacteria[edit]
Vibrio vulnificus, a virulent bacterium found in estuaries and along coastal areas
See also: Bacterioplankton
Bacteria constitute a large domain of prokaryotic microorganisms. Typically a few micrometres in length, bacteria have a number of shapes, ranging from spheres to rods and spirals. Bacteria were among the first life forms to appear on Earth, and are present in most of its habitats. Bacteria inhabit soil, water, acidic hot springs, radioactive waste,[110] and the deep portions of Earth's crust. Bacteria also live in symbiotic and parasitic relationships with plants and animals.
Once regarded as plants constituting the class Schizomycetes, bacteria are now classified as prokaryotes. Unlike cells of animals and other eukaryotes, bacterial cells do not contain a nucleus and rarely harbour membrane-bound organelles. Although the term bacteria traditionally included all prokaryotes, the scientific classification changed after the discovery in the 1990s that prokaryotes consist of two very different groups of organisms that evolved from an ancient common ancestor. These evolutionary domains are called Bacteria and Archaea.[111]
The ancestors of modern bacteria were unicellular microorganisms that were the first forms of life to appear on Earth, about 4 billion years ago. For about 3 billion years, most organisms were microscopic, and bacteria and archaea were the dominant forms of life.[112][113] Although bacterial fossils exist, such as stromatolites, their lack of distinctive morphology prevents them from being used to examine the history of bacterial evolution, or to date the time of origin of a particular bacterial species. However, gene sequences can be used to reconstruct the bacterial phylogeny, and these studies indicate that bacteria diverged first from the archaeal/eukaryotic lineage.[114] Bacteria were also involved in the second great evolutionary divergence, that of the archaea and eukaryotes. Here, eukaryotes resulted from the entering of ancient bacteria into endosymbiotic associations with the ancestors of eukaryotic cells, which were themselves possibly related to the Archaea.[47][115] This involved the engulfment by proto-eukaryotic cells of alphaproteobacterial symbionts to form either mitochondria or hydrogenosomes, which are still found in all known Eukarya. Later on, some eukaryotes that already contained mitochondria also engulfed cyanobacterial-like organisms. This led to the formation of chloroplasts in algae and plants. There are also some algae that originated from even later endosymbiotic events. Here, eukaryotes engulfed a eukaryotic algae that developed into a "second-generation" plastid.[116][117] This is known as secondary endosymbiosis.
The marine Thiomargarita namibiensis, largest known bacterium
Cyanobacteria blooms can contain lethal cyanotoxins
The chloroplasts of glaucophytes have a peptidoglycan layer, evidence suggesting their endosymbiotic origin from cyanobacteria.[118]
Bacteria can be beneficial. This Pompeii worm, an extremophile found only at hydrothermal vents, has a protective cover of bacteria.
The largest known bacterium, the marine Thiomargarita namibiensis, can be visible to the naked eye and sometimes attains 0.75 mm (750 μm).[119][120]
Marine archaea[edit]
Archaea were initially viewed as extremophiles living in harsh environments, such as the yellow archaea pictured here in a hot spring, but they have since been found in a much broader range of habitats.[121]
The archaea (Greek for ancient[122]) constitute a domain and kingdom of single-celled microorganisms. These microbes are prokaryotes, meaning they have no cell nucleus or any other membrane-bound organelles in their cells.
Archaea were initially classified as bacteria, but this classification is outdated.[123] Archaeal cells have unique properties separating them from the other two domains of life, Bacteria and Eukaryota. The Archaea are further divided into multiple recognized phyla. Classification is difficult because the majority have not been isolated in the laboratory and have only been detected by analysis of their nucleic acids in samples from their environment.
Archaea and bacteria are generally similar in size and shape, although a few archaea have very strange shapes, such as the flat and square-shaped cells of Haloquadratum walsbyi.[124] Despite this morphological similarity to bacteria, archaea possess genes and several metabolic pathways that are more closely related to those of eukaryotes, notably the enzymes involved in transcription and translation. Other aspects of archaeal biochemistry are unique, such as their reliance on ether lipids in their cell membranes, such as archaeols. Archaea use more energy sources than eukaryotes: these range from organic compounds, such as sugars, to ammonia, metal ions or even hydrogen gas. Salt-tolerant archaea (the Haloarchaea) use sunlight as an energy source, and other species of archaea fix carbon; however, unlike plants and cyanobacteria, no known species of archaea does both. Archaea reproduce asexually by binary fission, fragmentation, or budding; unlike bacteria and eukaryotes, no known species forms spores.
Archaea are particularly numerous in the oceans, and the archaea in plankton may be one of the most abundant groups of organisms on the planet. Archaea are a major part of Earth's life and may play roles in both the carbon cycle and the nitrogen cycle.
Halobacteria, found in water saturated or nearly saturated with salt, are now recognized as being archaea.
The flat and square-shaped cells of the archaea Haloquadratum walsbyi
Crystal structure of prefoldin from the heat-loving marine archaea Pyrococcus horikoshii[125]
Methanosarcina barkeri, a marine archaea that produces methane
Marine protists[edit]
Of eukaryotic groups, the protists are most commonly unicellular and microscopic. This is a highly diverse group of organisms that are not easy to classify.[126][127] Several algae species are multicellular protists, and there are marine slime molds have unique life cycles that involve switching between unicellular, colonial, and multicellular forms.[128] The number of species of protists is unknown since we may have identified only a small portion. Studies from 2001-2004 have shown that a high degree of protist diversity exists in oceans, deep sea-vents, river sediment and an acidic river which suggests that a large number of eukaryotic microbial communities have yet to be discovered.[129][130]
Other[edit]
See also: Microphyte
(Some microscopic algae, fungi and juvenile animals)
Marine algae and plants[edit]
Mangroves
Main articles: Algae and Marine plants
See also: Evolutionary history of plants, Plant evolution, Timeline of plant evolution, and Evolution of photosynthesis
Microscopic algae and plants provide important habitats for life, sometimes acting as hiding and foraging places for larval forms of larger fish and invertebrates. Algal life is widespread and very diverse under the ocean. Microscopic photosynthetic algae contribute a larger proportion of the world's photosynthetic output than all the terrestrial forests combined. Most of the niche occupied by sub plants on land is actually occupied by macroscopic algae in the ocean, such as Sargassum and kelp, which are commonly known as seaweeds that create kelp forests.
Plants that survive in the sea are often found in shallow waters, such as the seagrasses (examples of which are eelgrass, Zostera, and turtle grass, Thalassia). These plants have adapted to the high salinity of the ocean environment. The intertidal zone is also a good place to find plant life in the sea, where mangroves or cordgrass or beach grass might grow.
Phytoplankton
Volvox is a microscopic green freshwater alga with spherical symmetry. Young colonies can be seen inside the larger ones.
Seagrass meadow
Kelp forest
Marine fungi[edit]
Marine Ascomycete fungus
Lichen on a rock in a marine splash zone. Lichens are mutualistic associations between a fungus and an alga or cyanobacterium.
Main article: Marine fungi
See also: Evolution of fungi
Over 1500 species of fungi are known from marine environments.[131] These are parasitic on marine algae or animals, or are saprobes on algae, corals, protozoan cysts, sea grasses, wood and other substrata, and can also be found in sea foam.[132] Spores of many species have special appendages which facilitate attachment to the substratum.[133] A very diverse range of unusual secondary metabolites is produced by marine fungi.[134]
Mycoplankton are saprotropic members of the plankton communities of marine and freshwater ecosystems.[135][136] They are composed of filamentous free-living fungi and yeasts that are associated with planktonic particles or phytoplankton.[137] Similar to bacterioplankton, these aquatic fungi play a significant role in heterotrophic mineralization and nutrient cycling.[138] Mycoplankton can be up to 20 mm in diameter and over 50 mm in length.[139]
In a typical milliliter of seawater, there are approximately 103 to 104 fungal cells.[140] This number is greater in coastal ecosystems and estuaries due to nutritional runoff from terrestrial communities. The greatest diversity and number of species of mycoplankton is found in surface waters (< 1000 m), and the vertical profile depends on the abundance of phytoplankton.[141][142] Furthermore, this difference in distribution may vary between seasons due to nutrient availability.[143] Marine fungi survive in a constant oxygen deficient environment, and therefore depend on oxygen diffusion by turbulence and oxygen generated by photosynthetic organisms.[144]
Marine fungi can be classified as:[144]
Lower fungi - adapted to marine habitats (zoosporic fungi, including mastigomycetes: oomycetes and chytridiomycetes)
Higher fungi - filamentous, modified to planktonic lifestyle (hyphomycetes, ascomycetes, basidiomycetes)
Most mycoplankton species are higher fungi.[141]
Lichens are mutualistic associations between a fungus, usually an ascomycete, and an alga or a cyanobacterium. Several lichens are found in marine environments.[145] Many more occur in the splash zone, where they occupy different vertical zones depending on how tolerant they are to submersion.[146] Fossil marine lichens 600 million years old have been discovered in the late Neoproterozoic marine phosphate rocks in the sedimentary, fossil-rich Doushantuo Formation in China.[147]
According to fossil records, fungi date back to the late Proterozoic era 900-570 million years ago. It has been hypothesized that mycoplankton evolved from terrestrial fungi, likely in the Paleozoic era (390 million years ago).[148]
Invertebrates[edit]
Dickinsonia may be the earliest animal. They appear in the fossil record 571 million to 541 million years ago.
Kimberella, an early mollusc important for understanding the Cambrian explosion
Opabinia an extinct, stem group arthropod that appeared in the Middle Cambrian.[149] Invertebrates are grouped into different phyla (body plans).
Main article: Marine invertebrates
See also: Avalon explosion and Cambrian explosion
The earliest animals were marine invertebrates, that is, vertebrates came later. Animals are multicellular eukaryotes,[note 2] and are distinguished from plants, algae, and fungi by lacking cell walls.[150] Marine invertebrates are animals that inhabit a marine environment apart from the vertebrate members of the chordate phylum; invertebrates lack a vertebral column. Some have evolved a shell or a hard exoskeleton.
The earliest animal fossils may belong to the genus Dickinsonia,[151] 571 million to 541 million years ago.[152] Individual Dickinsonia typically resemble a bilaterally symmetrical ribbed oval. They kept growing until they were covered with sediment or otherwise killed,[153] and spent most of their lives with their bodies firmly anchored to the sediment.[154] Their taxonomic affinities are presently unknown, but their mode of growth is consistent with a bilaterian affinity.[155]
Apart from Dickinsonia, the earliest widely accepted animal fossils are the rather modern-looking cnidarians (the group that includes jellyfish, sea anemones and Hydra), possibly from around 580 Ma[156] The Ediacara biota, which flourished for the last 40 million years before the start of the Cambrian,[157] were the first animals more than a very few centimetres long. Like Dickinsonia, many were flat with a "quilted" appearance, and seemed so strange that there was a proposal to classify them as a separate kingdom, Vendozoa.[158] Others, however, have been interpreted as early molluscs (Kimberella[159][160]), echinoderms (Arkarua[161]), and arthropods (Spriggina,[162] Parvancorina[163]). There is still debate about the classification of these specimens, mainly because the diagnostic features which allow taxonomists to classify more recent organisms, such as similarities to living organisms, are generally absent in the Ediacarans. However, there seems little doubt that Kimberella was at least a triploblastic bilaterian animal, in other words, an animal significantly more complex than the cnidarians.[164]
The small shelly fauna are a very mixed collection of fossils found between the Late Ediacaran and Middle Cambrian periods. The earliest, Cloudina, shows signs of successful defense against predation and may indicate the start of an evolutionary arms race. Some tiny Early Cambrian shells almost certainly belonged to molluscs, while the owners of some "armor plates," Halkieria and Microdictyon, were eventually identified when more complete specimens were found in Cambrian lagerstätten that preserved soft-bodied animals.[165]
In the 1970s there was already a debate about whether the emergence of the modern phyla was "explosive" or gradual but hidden by the shortage of Precambrian animal fossils.[165] A re-analysis of fossils from the Burgess Shale lagerstätte increased interest in the issue when it revealed animals, such as Opabinia, which did not fit into any known phylum. At the time these were interpreted as evidence that the modern phyla had evolved very rapidly in the Cambrian explosion and that the Burgess Shale's "weird wonders" showed that the Early Cambrian was a uniquely experimental period of animal evolution.[166] Later discoveries of similar animals and the development of new theoretical approaches led to the conclusion that many of the "weird wonders" were evolutionary "aunts" or "cousins" of modern groups[167]—for example that Opabinia was a member of the lobopods, a group which includes the ancestors of the arthropods, and that it may have been closely related to the modern tardigrades.[168] Nevertheless, there is still much debate about whether the Cambrian explosion was really explosive and, if so, how and why it happened and why it appears unique in the history of animals.[169]
Invertebrates are grouped into different phyla. Informally phyla can be thought of as a way of grouping organisms according to their body plan.[170][171]:33 A body plan refers to a blueprint which describes the shape or morphology of an organism, such as its symmetry, segmentation and the disposition of its appendages. The idea of body plans originated with vertebrates, which were grouped into one phylum. But the vertebrate body plan is only one of many, and invertebrates consist of many phyla or body plans. The history of the discovery of body plans can be seen as a movement from a worldview centred on vertebrates, to seeing the vertebrates as one body plan among many. Among the pioneering zoologists, Linnaeus identified two body plans outside the vertebrates; Cuvier identified three; and Haeckel had four, as well as the Protista with eight more, for a total of twelve. For comparison, the number of phyla recognised by modern zoologists has risen to 35.[171]
Historically body plans were thought of as having evolved in rapidly during the Cambrian explosion,[172] but a more nuanced understanding of animal evolution suggests a gradual development of body plans throughout the early Palaeozoic and beyond.[173] More generally a phylum can be defined in two ways: as described above, as a group of organisms with a certain degree of morphological or developmental similarity (the phenetic definition), or a group of organisms with a certain degree of evolutionary relatedness (the phylogenetic definition).[173]
Arthropods total about 1,113,000 described extant species, molluscs about 85,000 and chordates about 52,000.[174][175]
Marine sponges[edit]
Sponges have no nervous, digestive or circulatory system
Sponges are animals of the phylum Porifera (Modern Latin for bearing pores[176]). They are multicellular organisms that have bodies full of pores and channels allowing water to circulate through them, consisting of jelly-like mesohyl sandwiched between two thin layers of cells. They have unspecialized cells that can transform into other types and that often migrate between the main cell layers and the mesohyl in the process. Sponges do not have nervous, digestive or circulatory systems. Instead, most rely on maintaining a constant water flow through their bodies to obtain food and oxygen and to remove wastes.
Sponges are similar to other animals in that they are multicellular, heterotrophic, lack cell walls and produce sperm cells. Unlike other animals, they lack true tissues and organs, and have no body symmetry. The shapes of their bodies are adapted for maximal efficiency of water flow through the central cavity, where it deposits nutrients, and leaves through a hole called the osculum. Many sponges have internal skeletons of spongin and/or spicules of calcium carbonate or silicon dioxide. All sponges are sessile aquatic animals. Although there are freshwater species, the great majority are marine (salt water) species, ranging from tidal zones to depths exceeding 8,800 m (5.5 mi).
While most of the approximately 5,000–10,000 known species feed on bacteria and other food particles in the water, some host photosynthesizing micro-organisms as endosymbionts and these alliances often produce more food and oxygen than they consume. A few species of sponge that live in food-poor environments have become carnivores that prey mainly on small crustaceans.[177]
Sponge biodiversity. There are four sponge species in this photo.
Branching vase sponge
Venus' flower basket at a depth of 2572 meters
Barrel sponge
Stove-pipe sponge
Linnaeus mistakenly identified sponges as plants in the order Algae.[178] For a long time thereafter sponges were assigned to a separate subkingdom, Parazoa (meaning beside the animals).[179] They are now classified as a paraphyletic phylum from which the higher animals have evolved.[180]
Marine cnidarians[edit]
Cnidarians are the simplest animals with cells organised into tissues. Yet the starlet sea anemone contains the same genes as those that form the vertebrate head.
Cnidarians (Greek for nettle) are distinguished by the presence of stinging cells, specialized cells that they use mainly for capturing prey. Cnidarians include corals, sea anemones, jellyfish and hydrozoans. They form a phylum containing over 10,000[181] species of animals found exclusively in aquatic (mainly marine) environments. Their bodies consist of mesoglea, a non-living jelly-like substance, sandwiched between two layers of epithelium that are mostly one cell thick. They have two basic body forms: swimming medusae and sessile polyps, both of which are radially symmetrical with mouths surrounded by tentacles that bear cnidocytes. Both forms have a single orifice and body cavity that are used for digestion and respiration.
Fossil cnidarians have been found in rocks formed about 580 million years ago. Fossils of cnidarians that do not build mineralized structures are rare. Scientists currently think cnidarians, ctenophores and bilaterians are more closely related to calcareous sponges than these are to other sponges, and that anthozoans are the evolutionary "aunts" or "sisters" of other cnidarians, and the most closely related to bilaterians.
Cnidarians are the simplest animals in which the cells are organised into tissues.[182] The starlet sea anemone is used as a model organism in research.[183] It is easy to care for in the laboratory and a protocol has been developed which can yield large numbers of embryos on a daily basis.[184] There is a remarkable degree of similarity in the gene sequence conservation and complexity between the sea anemone and vertebrates.[184] In particular, genes concerned in the formation of the head in vertebrates are also present in the anemone.[185][186]
Sea anemones are common in tidepools
Their tentacles sting and paralyse small fish
Close up of polyps on the surface of a coral, waving their tentacles.
As islands sink below the sea, corals growth can keep pace with the rising water, forming an atoll
Portuguese man o' war
Porpita porpita
Turritopsis dohrnii, a small, biologically immortal jellyfish transfers its cells back to childhood.[187][188]
Moon jellyfish, found in coastal waters around the world[189]
Lion's mane jellyfish, largest known jellyfish[190]
Marine worms[edit]
Further information: Marine worm and Sea worm
Many marine worms are related only distantly, so they form a number of different phyla. The worm shown is an arrow worm, found worldwide as a predatory component of plankton.
Worms (Old English for serpent) form a number of phylums. Their body plan typically involves long cylindrical tube-like bodies and no limbs. Marine worms vary in size from microscopic to over 1 metre (3.3 ft) in length for some marine polychaete worms (bristle worms)[191] and up to 58 metres (190 ft) for the marine nemertean worm (bootlace worm).[192] Some marine worms occupy a small variety of parasitic niches, living inside the bodies of other animals, while others live more freely in the marine environment or by burrowing underground.
Different groups of marine worms are related only distantly, so they are found in several different phyla such as the Annelida (segmented worms), Chaetognatha (arrow worms), Hemichordata, and Phoronida (horseshoe worms). Many of these worms have specialized tentacles used for exchanging oxygen and carbon dioxide and also may be used for reproduction. Some marine worms are tube worms, such as the giant tube worm which lives in waters near underwater volcanoes and can withstand temperatures up to 90 degrees Celsius.
Platyhelminthes (flatworms) form another worm phylum which includes a class Cestoda of parasitic tapeworms. The marine tapeworm Polygonoporus giganticus, found in the gut of sperm whales, can grow to over 30 m (100 ft).[193][194]
Nematodes (roundworms) constitute a further worm phylum with tubular digestive systems and an opening at both ends.[195][196] Over 25,000 nematode species have been described,[197][198] of which more than half are parasitic. It has been estimated another million remain undescribed.[199] They are ubiquitous in marine, freshwater and terrestrial environments, where they often outnumber other animals in both individual and species counts. They are found in every part of the earth's lithosphere, from the top of mountains to the bottom of oceanic trenches.[200] By count they represent 90% of all animals on the ocean floor.[201] Their numerical dominance, often exceeding a million individuals per square meter and accounting for about 80% of all individual animals on earth, their diversity of life cycles, and their presence at various trophic levels point at an important role in many ecosystems.[202]
Giant tube worms cluster around hydrothermal vents
Nematodes are ubiquitous pseudocoelomates which can parasite marine plants and animals.
Bloodworms are typically found on the bottom of shallow marine waters
Echinoderms[edit]
Starfish larvae are bilaterally symmetric, whereas the adults have fivefold symmetry
Echinoderms (Greek for spiny skin) is a phylum which contains only marine invertebrates. The adults are recognizable by their radial symmetry (usually five-point) and include starfish, sea urchins, sand dollars, and sea cucumbers, as well as the sea lilies.[203] Echinoderms are found at every ocean depth, from the intertidal zone to the abyssal zone. The phylum contains about 7000 living species,[204] making it the second-largest grouping of deuterostomes (a superphylum), after the chordates (which include the vertebrates, such as birds, fishes, mammals, and reptiles).
Echinoderms are unique among animals in having bilateral symmetry at the larval stage, but fivefold symmetry (pentamerism, a special type of radial symmetry) as adults.[205]
The echinoderms are important both biologically and geologically. Biologically, there are few other groupings so abundant in the biotic desert of the deep sea, as well as shallower oceans. Most echinoderms are able to regenerate tissue, organs, limbs, and reproduce asexually; in some cases, they can undergo complete regeneration from a single limb. Geologically, the value of echinoderms is in their ossified skeletons, which are major contributors to many limestone formations, and can provide valuable clues as to the geological environment. They were the most used species in regenerative research in the 19th and 20th centuries. Further, it is held by some scientists that the radiation of echinoderms was responsible for the Mesozoic Marine Revolution.
Echinoderm literally means "spiny skin", as this water melon sea urchin illustrates
The ochre sea star was the first keystone predator to be studied. They limit mussels which can overwhelm intertidal communities.[206]
Colorful sea lilies in shallow waters
Sea cucumbers filter feed on plankton and suspended solids
The benthopelagic sea cucumber can lift off the seafloor and journey as much as 1,000 m (3,300 ft) up the water column
This deep water sea cucumber, a sea pig, is the only echinoderm that uses legged locomotion.
Aside from the hard-to-classify Arkarua (a Precambrian animal with echinoderm-like pentamerous radial symmetry), the first definitive members of the phylum appeared near the start of the Cambrian.
Marine molluscs[edit]
Reconstruction of an ammonite, a highly successful early cephalopod that first appeared in the Devonian (about 400 mya). They became extinct during the same extinction event that killed the land dinosaurs (about 66 mya).
See also: Evolution of molluscs and Evolution of cephalopods
Molluscs (Latin for soft) form a phylum with about 85,000 extant recognized species.[207] They are the largest marine phylum in terms of species count, comprising about 23% of all the named marine organisms.[208] Molluscs have more varied forms than other invertebrate phylums. They are highly diverse, not just in size and in anatomical structure, but also in behaviour and in habitat. The majority of species still live in the oceans, from the seashores to the abyssal zone, but some form a significant part of the freshwater fauna and the terrestrial ecosystems.
The mollusc phylum is divided into 9 or 10 taxonomic classes, two of which are extinct. These classes include gastropods, bivalves and cephalopods, as well as other lesser-known but distinctive classes. Gastropods with protective shells are referred to as snails, whereas gastropods without protective shells are referred to as slugs. Gastropods are by far the most numerous molluscs in terms of classified species, accounting for 80% of the total.[174] Bivalves include clams, oysters, cockles, mussels, scallops, and numerous other families. There are about 8,000 marine bivalves species (including brackish water and estuarine species), and about 1,200 freshwater species. Cephalopod include octopus, squid and cuttlefish. They are found in all oceans, and neurologically are the most advanced of the invertebrates.[209] About 800 living species of marine cephalopods have been identified,[210] and an estimated 11,000 extinct taxa have been described.[211] There are no fully freshwater cephalopods.[212]
Colossal squid, largest of all invertebrates[213]
The nautilus is a living fossil little changed since it evolved 500 million years ago as one of the first cephalopods.[214][215][216]
Marine gastropods are sea snails or sea slugs. This nudibranch is a sea slug.
The sea snail Syrinx aruanus has the largest shell of any living gastropod
Molluscs usually have eyes. Bordering the edge of the mantle of a scallop, a bivalve mollusc, can be over 100 simple eyes.
Common mussel, another bivalve
Generalized or hypothetical ancestral mollusc
Molluscs have such diverse shapes that many textbooks base their descriptions of molluscan anatomy on a generalized or hypothetical ancestral mollusc. This generalized mollusc is unsegmented and bilaterally symmetrical with an underside consisting of a single muscular foot.[217][218]:484–628 Beyond that it has three further key features. Firstly, it has a muscular cloak called a mantle covering its viscera and containing a significant cavity used for breathing and excretion. A shell secreted by the mantle covers the upper surface.[218] Secondly (apart from bivalves) it has a rasping tongue called a radula used for feeding. Thirdly, it has a nervous system including a complex digestive system using microscopic, muscle-powered hairs called cilia to exude mucus. The generalized mollusc has two paired nerve cords (three in bivalves). The brain, in species that have one, encircles the esophagus. Most molluscs have eyes and all have sensors detecting chemicals, vibrations, and touch. The simplest type of molluscan reproductive system relies on external fertilization, but more complex variations occur. All produce eggs, from which may emerge trochophore larvae, more complex veliger larvae, or miniature adults. The depiction is rather similar to modern monoplacophorans, and some suggest it may resemble very early molluscs.[217]:284–291[217]:298–300[219][220]
Good evidence exists for the appearance of marine gastropods, cephalopods and bivalves in the Cambrian period 541 to 485.4 million years ago. However, the evolutionary history both of molluscs' emergence from the ancestral Lophotrochozoa and of their diversification into the well-known living and fossil forms are still subjects of vigorous debate among scientists.
Marine arthropods[edit]
Head
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Segments and tagmata of an arthropod[221] The head and thorax are fused in some arthropods, such as crabs and lobsters.
See also: Evolution of brachiopods
Arthropods (Greek for jointed feet) have an exoskeleton (external skeleton), a segmented body, and jointed appendages (paired appendages). They form a phylum which includes insects, arachnids, myriapods, and crustaceans. Arthropods are characterized by their jointed limbs and cuticle made of chitin, often mineralised with calcium carbonate. The arthropod body plan consists of segments, each with a pair of appendages. The rigid cuticle inhibits growth, so arthropods replace it periodically by moulting. Their versatility has enabled them to become the most species-rich members of all ecological guilds in most environments.
Extant marine arthropods range in size from the microscopic crustacean Stygotantulus to the Japanese spider crab. Arthropods' primary internal cavity is a hemocoel, which accommodates their internal organs, and through which their haemolymph - analogue of blood - circulates; they have open circulatory systems. Like their exteriors, the internal organs of arthropods are generally built of repeated segments. Their nervous system is "ladder-like", with paired ventral nerve cords running through all segments and forming paired ganglia in each segment. Their heads are formed by fusion of varying numbers of segments, and their brains are formed by fusion of the ganglia of these segments and encircle the esophagus. The respiratory and excretory systems of arthropods vary, depending as much on their environment as on the subphylum to which they belong.
Their vision relies on various combinations of compound eyes and pigment-pit ocelli: in most species the ocelli can only detect the direction from which light is coming, and the compound eyes are the main source of information. Arthropods also have a wide range of chemical and mechanical sensors, mostly based on modifications of the many setae (bristles) that project through their cuticles. Arthropods' methods of reproduction and development are diverse; all terrestrial species use internal fertilization, but this is often by indirect transfer of the sperm via an appendage or the ground, rather than by direct injection. Marine species all lay eggs and use either internal or external fertilization. Arthropod hatchlings vary from miniature adults to grubs that lack jointed limbs and eventually undergo a total metamorphosis to produce the adult form.
Trilobites, now extinct, roamed oceans for 270 Ma.[222]
The horseshoe crab is a living fossil, essentially unchanged for 450 Ma
The largest known arthropod, the freshwater "sea" scorpion Jaekelopterus rhenaniae, lived about 390 Ma. It was up to 2.5 m (8.2 ft) long.[223][224]
Crustaceans
Many crustaceans are very small, like this tiny amphipod, and make up a significant part of the ocean's zooplankton
Mantis shrimp have the most advanced eyes in the animal kingdom,[225] and smash prey by swinging their club-like raptorial claws.[226]
The Tasmanian giant crab is long-lived and slow-growing, making it vulnerable to overfishing.[227]
The Japanese spider crab has the longest leg span of any arthropod, reaching 5.5 metres (18 ft) from claw to claw.[228]
The evolutionary ancestry of arthropods dates back to the Cambrian period. The group is generally regarded as monophyletic, and many analyses support the placement of arthropods with cycloneuralians (or their constituent clades) in a superphylum Ecdysozoa. Overall however, the basal relationships of Metazoa are not yet well resolved. Likewise, the relationships between various arthropod groups are still actively debated.
Others[edit]
Tardigrade, Lobopodia, (Onychophora)
Non-craniate (non-vertebrate) chordates: Cephalochordate, Tunicata and Haikouella. These invertebrates are close relatives of the vertebrates.
Non-craniate chordates are close relatives of vertebrates
The lancelet, a small translucent fish-like Cephalochordate, is the closest living invertebrate relative of the vertebrates.[229][230]
Fluorescent-colored sea squirts, Rhopalaea crassa. Tunicates may provide clues to vertebrate (and therefore human) ancestry.[231]
Salp chain
Gill slits in an acorn worm (left) and tunicate (right)
Vertebrates[edit]
Main article: Marine vertebrate
Fish[edit]
Further information: Fish, diversity of fish, and evolution of fish
Fish anatomy includes a two-chambered heart, operculum, swim bladder, scales, eyes adapted to seeing underwater, and secretory cells that produce mucous. Fish breathe by extracting oxygen from water through gills. Fins propel and stabilize the fish in the water. Fish fall into two main groups: fish with bony skeletons and fish with cartilaginous skeletons. Over 33,000 species of fish have been described as of 2015,[232] and about 20,000 are marine.[233]
Jawless fish[edit]
Hagfish form a class of about 20 species of eel-shaped, slime-producing marine fish. They are the only known living animals that have a skull but no vertebral column. Lampreys form a superclass containing 38 known extant species of jawless fish.[234] The adult lamprey is characterized by a toothed, funnel-like sucking mouth. Although they are well known for boring into the flesh of other fish to suck their blood,[235] only 18 species of lampreys are actually parasitic.[236] Together hagfish and lampreys are the sister group to vertebrates. Living hagfish remain similar to hagfish from around 300 million years ago.[237] The lampreys are a very ancient lineage of vertebrates, though their exact relationship to hagfishes and jawed vertebrates is still a matter of dispute.[238]
Hagfish are the only known living animals with a skull but no vertebral column.
Lampreys are often parasitic and have a toothed, funnel-like sucking mouth
The extinct Pteraspidomorphi, ancestral to jawed vertebrates
Pteraspidomorphi is an extinct class of early jawless fish ancestral to jawed vertebrates. The few characteristics they share with the latter are now considered as primitive for all vertebrates.
Cartilaginous[edit]
Main article: Cartilaginous fish
Cartilaginous fish, such as sharks and rays, have jaws and skeletons made of cartilage rather than bone. Megalodon is an extinct species of shark that lived about 28 to 1.5 Ma. It looked much like a stocky version of the great white shark, but was much larger with fossil lengths reaching 20.3 metres (67 ft).[239] Found in all oceans[240] it was one of the largest and most powerful predators in vertebrate history,[239] and probably had a profound impact on marine life.[241] The Greenland shark has the longest known lifespan of all vertebrates, about 400 years.[242]
Cartilaginous fishes may have evolved from spiny sharks
The extinct megalodon resembled a giant great white shark
The Greenland shark lives longer than any other vertebrate
Stingray
Sawfish are rays with long rostrums resembling a saw. All are now endangered or critically endangered[243]
The giant manta ray, largest ray in the world, has been targeted by fisheries and is now vulnerable.[244]
Bony[edit]
Main article: Bony fish
Bony fish have jaws and skeletons made of bone rather than cartilage. Bony fish also have a hard, bony plate covering their gills called an operculum, and can have distinct rays, or spines, in their fins. About 90% of the world's fish species are bony fish.
Ray-finned fish (crucian carp)
Lobe-finned fish (coelacanth)
The extinct Leedsichthys is the largest known bony fish
Marine tetrapods[edit]
See also: Evolution of tetrapods
Amphibians[edit]
Amphibians mostly require fresh water to reproduce. A few inhabit brackish water, but there are no true marine amphibians.[245] There have been reports, however, of amphibians invading marine waters, such as a Black Sea invasion by the natural hybrid Pelophylax esculentus reported in 2010.[246]
Reptiles[edit]
Main article: Marine reptile
See also: Evolution of reptiles
Reptiles (Late Latin for creeping or crawling) form a class Reptilia of tetrapods, vertebrates that have either four limbs or have four-limbed ancestors. Some reptiles are more closely related to birds than other reptiles, and many scientists prefer to make Reptilia a monophyletic group which includes the birds.[247][248][249][250] Extant non-avian reptiles which inhabit or frequent the sea include sea turtles, sea snakes, terrapins, the marine iguana, and the saltwater crocodile. Currently, of the approximately 12,000 extant reptile species and sub-species, only about 100 of are classed as marine reptiles.[251]
Unlike amphibians, reptiles do not have an aquatic larval stage. Most reptiles are oviparous, although several species of squamates are viviparous, as were some extinct aquatic clades[252] — the fetus develops within the mother, contained in a placenta rather than an eggshell. As amniotes, reptile eggs are surrounded by membranes for protection and transport, which adapt them to reproduction on dry land. Many of the viviparous species feed their fetuses through various forms of placenta analogous to those of mammals, with some providing initial care for their hatchlings.
Except for some sea snakes, most extant marine reptiles are oviparous and need to return to land to lay their eggs. Apart from sea turtles, the species usually spend most of their lives on or near land rather than in the ocean. Sea snakes generally prefer shallow waters nearby land, around islands, especially waters that are somewhat sheltered, as well as near estuaries.[253][254] Unlike land snakes, sea snakes have evolved flattened tails which help them swim.[255]
Marine iguana
Leatherback sea turtle
Saltwater crocodile
Marine snakes have flattened tails
The ancient Ichthyosaurus communis independently evolved flippers similar to dolphins
Some extinct marine reptiles, such as ichthyosaurs, evolved to be viviparous and had no requirement to return to land. Ichthyosaurs resembled dolphins. They first appeared about 245 million years ago and disappeared about 90 million years ago. The terrestrial ancestor of the ichthyosaur had no features already on its back or tail that might have helped along the evolutionary process. Yet the ichthyosaur developed a dorsal and tail fin which improved its ability to swim.[256] The biologist Stephen Jay Gould said the ichthyosaur was his favourite example of convergent evolution.[257] The earliest marine reptiles arose in the Permian. During the Mesozoic many groups of reptiles became adapted to life in the seas, including ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, mosasaurs, nothosaurs, placodonts, sea turtles, thalattosaurs and thalattosuchians. Marine reptiles were less numerous after mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous.
Birds[edit]
Main article: Seabird
Marine birds are adapted to life within the marine environment. They are often called seabirds. While marine birds vary greatly in lifestyle, behaviour and physiology, they often exhibit striking convergent evolution, as the same environmental problems and feeding niches have resulted in similar adaptations. Examples include albatross, penguins, gannets, and auks.
In general, marine birds live longer, breed later and have fewer young than terrestrial birds do, but they invest a great deal of time in their young. Most species nest in colonies, which can vary in size from a few dozen birds to millions. Many species are famous for undertaking long annual migrations, crossing the equator or circumnavigating the Earth in some cases. They feed both at the ocean's surface and below it, and even feed on each other. Marine birds can be highly pelagic, coastal, or in some cases spend a part of the year away from the sea entirely. Some marine birds plummet from heights, plunging through the water leaving vapour-like trails, similar to that of fighter planes.[258] Gannets plunge into the water at up to 100 kilometres per hour (60 mph). They have air sacs under their skin in their face and chest which act like bubble-wrap, cushioning the impact with the water.
European herring gull attack herring schools from above
Gentoo penguin swimming underwater
Gannets "divebomb" at high speed
Albatrosses range over huge areas of ocean and regularly circle the globe.
The first marine birds evolved in the Cretaceous period, and modern marine bird families emerged in the Paleogene.
Mammals[edit]
Sea otter, classic keystone species which controls sea urchin numbers
Main article: Marine mammal
See also: Evolution of cetaceans, Evolution of sirenians, and List of marine mammal species
There are about 130 living and recently extinct marine mammal species such as seals, dolphins, whales, manatees, sea otters and polar bears.[259] They do not represent a distinct taxon or systematic grouping, but are instead unified by their reliance on the marine environment for feeding. Both cetaceans and sirenians are fully aquatic and therefore are obligate water dwellers. Seals and sea-lions are semiaquatic; they spend the majority of their time in the water, but need to return to land for important activities such as mating, breeding and molting. In contrast, both otters and the polar bear are much less adapted to aquatic living. Their diet varies considerably as well; some may eat zooplankton, others may eat fish, squid, shellfish, sea-grass and a few may eat other mammals.
In a process of convergent evolution, marine mammals such as dolphins and whales redeveloped their body plan to parallel the streamlined fusiform body plan of pelagic fish. Front legs became flippers and back legs disappeared, a dorsal fin reappeared and the tail morphed into a powerful horizontal fluke. This body plan is an adaptation to being an active predator in a high drag environment. A parallel convergence occurred with the now extinct ichthyosaur.[260]
Endangered blue whale, largest animal ever[261]
Bottlenose dolphin, highest encephalization of any animal after humans[262]
Dugong grazing on seagrass
Walrus
Polar bear
Plankton[edit]
Plankton are drifting or floating organisms that cannot swim against a current, and include organisms from all the domains of life: bacteria, archaea, algae, protozoa and animal.
Further information: Plankton, Bacterioplankton, and Ichthyoplankton
Plankton are a diverse group of organisms that live in the water column of large bodies of water and that cannot swim against a current.[263] They provide a crucial source of food to many large aquatic organisms, such as fish and whales.
These organisms include drifting or floating bacteria, archaea, algae, protozoa and animals that inhabit, for example, the pelagic zone of oceans, seas, or bodies of fresh water. Essentially, plankton are defined by their ecological niche rather than any phylogenetic or taxonomic classification.
Though many planktonic species are microscopic in size, plankton includes organisms covering a wide range of sizes, including large organisms such as jellyfish.[264]
The role of phytoplankton is better understood due to their critical position as the most numerous primary producers on Earth. Phytoplankton are categorized into cyanobacteria (also called blue-green algae/bacteria), various types of algae (red, green, brown, and yellow-green), diatoms, dinoflagellates, euglenoids, coccolithophorids, cryptomonads, chrysophytes, chlorophytes, prasinophytes, and silicoflagellates.
Phytoplankton
Phytoplankton are the foundation of the oceanic food chain.
They come in many shapes and sizes.
Diatoms are one of the most common types of phytoplankton
Green cyanobacteria scum washed up on a rock in California
Algal bloom off south England.
Zooplankton tend to be somewhat larger, and not all are microscopic. Many Protozoa are zooplankton, including dinoflagellates, zooflagellates, foraminiferans, and radiolarians. Some of these (such as dinoflagellates) are also phytoplankton; the distinction between plants and animals often breaks down in very small organisms. Other zooplankton include cnidarians, ctenophores, chaetognaths, molluscs, arthropods, urochordates, and annelids such as polychaetes.
Zooplankton
Marine amphipod
Copepod
White-spotted jellyfish
Tomopteris, a planktonic segmented worm with unusual yellow bioluminescence[265]
Many larger animals begin their life as zooplankton before they become large enough to take their adult forms.
Spawn, larvae and juveniles
Transparent herring eggs with yolk and eyes visible and one larva hatched
Male star coral releasing sperm into the water
Ocean sunfish larva
Zoea larva of a crab
Juvenile planktonic squid
Land interactions[edit]
The drainage basins of the principal oceans and seas of the world are marked by continental divides. The grey areas are endorheic basins that do not drain to the ocean.
See also: Tetrapods, Invertebrates, Freshwater ecosystem, and Freshwater fish
Biogeochemical cycles[edit]
Water cycle
See also: Biogeochemical cycle, Hydrogen cycle, Mercury in fish, and Sulfur cycle
Oxygen cycle
Marine nitrogen cycle
Mercury cycle
Marine phosphorus cycle
Nutrient cycle
Food cycle
Energy gathering mechanism in marine bacteria via Proteorhodopsin[266]
In 2000 a team of microbiologists led by Edward DeLong made a crucial discovery in the understanding of the marine carbon and energy cycles. They discovered a gene in several species of bacteria[267][268] responsible for production of the protein rhodopsin, previously unheard of in the domain Bacteria. These proteins found in the cell membranes are capable of converting light energy to biochemical energy due to a change in configuration of the rhodopsin molecule as sunlight strikes it, causing the pumping of a proton from inside out and a subsequent inflow that generates the energy.[269]
Biodiversity and extinction events[edit]
Apparent marine fossil diversity during the Phanerozoic[270]
Marine extinction intensity during the Phanerozoic
%
Millions of years ago
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K–Pg
Tr–J
P–Tr
Cap
Late D
O–S
Apparent extinction intensity, i.e. the fraction of genera going extinct at any given time as reconstructed from the fossil record (excluding the current Holocene extinction event)
Biodiversity is the result of over three billion years of evolution. Until approximately 600 million years ago, all life consisted of archaea, bacteria, protozoans and similar single-celled organisms. The history of biodiversity during the Phanerozoic (the last 540 million years), starts with rapid growth during the Cambrian explosion – a period during which nearly every phylum of multicellular organisms first appeared. Over the next 400 million years or so, invertebrate diversity showed little overall trend and vertebrate diversity shows an overall exponential trend.[271]
However, more than 99 percent of all species that ever lived on Earth, amounting to over five billion species,[272] are estimated to be extinct.[273][274] These extinctions occur at an uneven rate. The dramatic rise in diversity has been marked by periodic, massive losses of diversity classified as mass extinction events.[271] Mass extinction events occur when life undergoes precipitous global declines. Most diversity and biomass on earth is found among the microorganisms, which are difficult to measure. Recorded extinction events are therefore based on the more easily observed changes in the diversity and abundance of larger multicellular organisms, rather than the total diversity and abundance of life.[275] Marine fossils are mostly used to measure extinction rates because of their superior fossil record and stratigraphic range compared to land organisms.
Based on the fossil record, the background rate of extinctions on Earth is about two to five taxonomic families of marine animals every million years. The Great Oxygenation Event was perhaps the first major extinction event. Since the Cambrian explosion five further major mass extinctions have significantly exceeded the background extinction rate.[276] The worst was the Permian-Triassic extinction event, 251 million years ago. Vertebrates took 30 million years to recover from this event.[277] In addition to these major mass extinctions there are numerous minor ones, as well as the current ongoing mass-extinction caused by human activity, the Holocene extinction sometimes called the "sixth extinction".
Marine biology[edit]
In the fourth century BC Aristotle gave accurate descriptions of the embryological development of the hound shark Mustelus mustelus
Further information: History of marine biology
During the sixth century BC, the Greek philosopher Xenophanes (570-475 BC) recognised that some fossil shells were remains of shellfish. He used this to argue that what was at the time dry land was once under the sea.[278] This was an important step in advancing from simply stating an idea to backing it with evidence and observation.[279]
Later, during the fourth century BC, another Greek philosopher Aristotle (384–322 BC) attempted a comprehensive classification of animals which included systematic descriptions of many marine species,[280][281] and particularly species found in the Mediterranean Sea.[282] These pioneering works include History of Animals, a general biology of animals, Parts of Animals, a comparative anatomy and physiology of animals, and Generation of Animals, on developmental biology. The most striking passages are about the sea-life visible from observation on Lesbos and available from the catches of fishermen. His observations on catfish, electric fish (Torpedo) and angler-fish are detailed, as is his writing on cephalopods, namely, Octopus, Sepia (cuttlefish) and the paper nautilus (Argonauta argo). His description of the hectocotyl arm, used in sexual reproduction, was widely disbelieved until its rediscovery in the 19th century. He separated aquatic mammals from fish, and knew that sharks and rays were part of a group he called Selachē (selachians).[283] He gave accurate descriptions of the ovoviviparous embryological development of the hound shark Mustelus mustelus.[284] His classification of living things contains elements which were still in use in the 19th century. What the modern zoologist would call vertebrates and invertebrates, Aristotle called "animals with blood" and "animals without blood" (he did not know that complex invertebrates do make use of hemoglobin, but of a different kind from vertebrates). He divided animals with blood into live-bearing (mammals), and egg-bearing (birds and fish). Invertebrates ("animals without blood") he divided into insects, crustacea (further divided into non-shelled – cephalopods – and shelled) and testacea (molluscs).[285][286]
In contemporary times, marine life is a field of study both in marine biology and in biological oceanography. In biology many phyla, families and genera have some species that live in the sea and others that live on land. Marine biology classifies species based on the environment rather than on taxonomy. For this reason marine biology encompasses not only organisms that live only in a marine environment, but also other organisms whose lives revolve around the sea. Biological oceanography is the study of how organisms affect and are affected by the physics, chemistry, and geology of the oceanographic system. Biological oceanography mostly focuses on the microorganisms within the ocean; looking at how they are affected by their environment and how that affects larger marine creatures and their ecosystem.[287] Biological oceanography is similar to marine biology, but is different because of the perspective used to study the ocean. Biological oceanography takes a bottom up approach (in terms of the food web), while marine biology studies the ocean from a top down perspective. Biological oceanography mainly focuses on the ecosystem of the ocean with an emphasis on plankton: their diversity (morphology, nutritional sources, motility, and metabolism); their productivity and how that plays a role in the global carbon cycle; and their distribution (predation and life cycle).[287][288][289] Biological oceanography also investigates the role of microbes in food webs, and how humans impact the ecosystems in the oceans.[287]
See also[edit]
Blue Planet - David Attenborough
Blue Planet II
Census of Marine Life
Future of Marine Animal Populations (FMAP)
History of Marine Animal Populations (HMAP)
Pacific Ocean Shelf Tracking Project (POST)
Effects of global warming on marine mammals
Hydrobiology
List of marine aquarium invertebrate species
Milky seas effect
Natural Geography in Shore Areas (NaGISA)
Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS)
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