Extremophile fishes: ecology, evolution, and physiology of Teleosts in extreme environments

0472512 - ÚBO 2017 RIV DE eng M - Monography Chapter
Polačik, Matej - Podrabsky, J. E.
Temporary environments.
Extremophile fishes: ecology, evolution, and physiology of Teleosts in extreme environments. Cham: Springer, 2015 - (Riesch, R.; Tobler, M.; Plath, M.), s. 217-245. ISBN 978-3-319-13361-4
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Keywords : annual killifishes
Subject RIV: EG - Zoology

Temporary aquatic habitats are common in arid and semiarid ecosystems across the globe. They are an especially harsh and challenging environment for aquatic organisms, and this has resulted in the evolution of only a few successful lineages of fishes that can permanently inhabit and exploit these resources. The most successful group of fishes are the annual killifishes found in Africa and South America that survive the drying of their aquatic habitat as embryos. A few osmeriform fishes and lungfishes experience similar conditions, but instead survive through estivation of the adult form. In this chapter, we review the life history, ecology, and evolutionary biology of these unique and successful fishes that have managed to survive in habitats unavailable to other fishes.
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