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A longstanding question in ecology asks how can so many different species co-occur, or live together, at the same time.
One theory suggests that only one species can occupy a particular niche in a biological community at any one time.
Six of these seven clam species, called yoyo clams , attach to the shrimp's burrow walls with a long foot used to spring away from danger.
The seventh clam species has a distinct within-burrow niche in that it attaches directly to the host mantis shrimp's body.
The researchers' next steps are to look into what happened.
It could have been an artifact of the setup in the lab, Diarmaid Ó Foighil said.
The researchers have proposed two follow-up studies.
The first to determine if both types of commensals can recruit as larvae to same host burrows.
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