Biology of Subterranean Fishes

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Biology of Subterranean Fishes

Biology of Subterranean Fishes

Name: Biology of Subterranean Fishes
ISBN: 9781138115477

Eleonora Trajano, Maria Elina Bichuette (Editors & Authors), B.G. Kapoor (Editor)

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Main subject categories: • Subterranean Fishes • Amblyopsidae • Fishes ‒ Ecophysiology • Fishes ‒ Adaptation • Fishes ‒ Habitat • Deep sea fishes

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 extensive introduction, history of investigations, consideration of non-stygobitic fishes in caves, and detailed analysis of the conservation status of these very rare animals.

Categorie:

Biology and other natural sciences

Anno:

2010

Edizione:

Casa editrice:

CRC Press; Taylor & Francis Group, LLC; Science Publishers

Lingua:

english

Pagine:

478

ISBN 10: