Oceanic anglerfishes : extraordinary diversity in the deep sea / Theodore W. Pietsch.
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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Table of Contents:
- 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.