Fishes of Antarctica
A biological overview
The Antarctic fish fauna has evolved over a long period of geographic and climatic isolation. In the course of this evolution, Antarctic fish have developed specialized adaptations, some of which characterize these organisms as unique. In strong contrast to the continental shelf faunas elsewhere, the Antarctic shelf ichthyofauna is dominated by a single highly endemic group, the Notothenioidei. This group of perciform fish probably first appeared and diversified in the early Tertiary. The development of the Polar Front (referred to as the Antarctic Convergence in the older literature) resulted in a natural oceanographic barrier to migration i…
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Weitere Autoren: Pisano, Eva (Hrsg.) / Clark, Andrew (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-88-470-2157-0
- EAN: 9788847021570
- Produktnummer: 37299844
- Verlag: Springer Milan
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 363 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Auflage: 1998
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