| Description |
1 online resource (460 pages) |
| Contents |
Cavefish : retrospective and prospective / Thomas L. Poulson -- Biodiversity and distribution of the subterranean fishes of the world / Graham S. Proudlove -- Conservation of subterranean fishes / Maria Elina Bichuette, Eleonora Trajano -- Behavioral patterns in subterranean fishes / Jakob Parzefall, Eleonora Trajano -- The evolutionary genetics of cave fishes : convergence, adaptation and pleiotropy / Richard Borowsky -- Development as an evolutionary process in Astyanax cavefish / William R. Jeffery, Allen G. Strickler -- Subterranean fishes of North America : Amblyopsidae / Matthew L. Niemiller, Thomas L. Poulson -- Subterranean fishes of Mexico (Poecilia mexicana, Poeciliidae) / Martin Plath, Michael Tobler -- Subterranean fishes of Brazil / Eleonora Trajano, Maria Elina Bichuette -- Subterranean fishes of Africa / Roberto Berti, Giuseppe Messana -- Subterranean fishes of China / Chen Zi-Ming [and others] -- Subterranean fishes of India / Atanu Kumar Pati, Arti Parganiha |
| Summary |
In most habitats, adaptations are the single most obvious aspects of an organism's phenotype. However, the most obvious feature of many subterranean animals are losses, not adaptations. Even Darwin saw subterranean animals as degenerates: examples of eyelessness and loss of structure in general. For him, the explanation was a straightforward Lamarckian one, and one that did not involve adaptation and the struggle of existence. This volume is a comprehensive account of all known species of subterranean fishes. It includes an introduction, history of investigations, consideration of non-stygobitic fishes in caves, and analysis of the conservation status of these very rare animals |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Subject |
Amblyopsidae.
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Fishes -- Ecophysiology.
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Fishes -- Adaptation.
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Fishes -- Habitat.
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Deep-sea fishes.
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NATURE -- Animals -- Fish.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- Ichthyology & Herpetology.
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Amblyopsidae
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Deep-sea fishes
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Fishes -- Adaptation
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Fishes -- Ecophysiology
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Fishes -- Habitat
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Fische.
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Höhlentiere.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Trajano, Eleonora.
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Bichuette, Maria Elina.
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Kapoor, B. G.
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| ISBN |
9781439840481 |
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1439840482 |
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1322611807 |
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9781322611808 |
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9780429064135 |
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0429064136 |
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