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Oceanic Anglerfishes : Extraordinary Diversity in the Deep Sea /

No environment on Earth imposes greater physical and biological constraints on life than the deep oceanic midwaters. Near-freezing temperatures, the absence of sunlight, enormous pressure, and a low food supply make habitation by any living thing almost inconceivable. Yet 160 species of anglerfishes...

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Autor principal: Pietsch, Theodore W.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction and Historical Perspective
  • What Makes an Anglerfish?
  • Biodiversity
  • Evolutionary Relationships
  • Geographic Distribution
  • Bioluminescence and Luring
  • Locomotion, Food, and Feeding
  • Reproduction and Early Life History
  • Families, genera, and species of the Ceratioidei
  • Reallocation of Nominal Species of the Ceratioidei Based on Females
  • Reallocation of Nominal Species of the Ceratioidei Based on Free-Living Males
  • Symbolic Codes for Institutional Collections.