Table 3. Ten bacterial species abundantly present in the rockworm gut at each growth stage

Bacterial species Abundance of bacterial species at each rockworm growth stage (%)
Larva Juvenile Adult Biofloc-fed adult
Flavicella marina 47.8 1.5 - -
Rubritalea spongiae 11.0 47.1 - -
Catenococcus thiocycli 6.3 2.3 - -
Vibrio mediterranei 5.2 - - -
Vibrio tubiashii 2.5 - - -
Pseudoalteromonas phenolica 2.3 5.3 - -
Lentisphaera marina 2.2 - - -
Ruegeria arenilitoris 1.7 4.4 - -
Bermanella marisrubri 1.1 - - -
Planctomyces maris 1.1 - - -
Persicirhabdus sediminis - 5.0 - -
Roseovarius crassostreae - 3.4 - -
Thalassomonas ganghwensis - 2.7 - -
Lentisphaera marina - 2.0 - -
Tenacibaculum litopenaei - 1.6 - -
Delftia tsuruhatensis - - 28.1 7.3
Campylobacter hyointestinalis - - 15.3 -
Butyrivibrio proteoclasticus - - 7.4 -
Paraprevotella clara - - 6.4 -
Alloprevotella rava - - 4.9 -
Bacteroides coprophilus - - 4.6 -
Sphingomonas kyeonggiensis - - 3.4 -
Clostridium disporicum - - 3.1 -
Prevotella ruminicola - - 3.0 -
Lachnobacterium bovis - - 2.8 -
Acinetobacter johnsonii - - - 22.6
Cloacibacterium normanense - - - 11.2
Klebsiella oxytoca - - - 4.2
Acidovorax radices - - - 4.1
Sphingobium yanoikuyae - - - 3.8
Ferruginibacter paludis - - - 3.7
Moraxella osloensis - - - 3.1
Chryseobacterium greenlandense - - - 2.2
Prevotella copri - - - 2.1
Unknowns1) 3.4 0.6 16.8 3.3
Bacterial species present in the rockworm gut at less than 1% abundance.