| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 557 pages) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 527-545) and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
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 are found there in surprising profusion. Monstrous in appearance, anglerfishes possess a host of unique and spectacular morphological, behavioral, and physiological innovations. In this fully illustrated book, the first to focus on these intriguing fish, Theodore W. Pietsch delivers a comprehensive summary of all that is known about anglerfishes--morphology, diversity, evolution, geographic distribution, bioluminescence, and reproduction. --from publisher description. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Anglerfishes.
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Anglerfishes. |
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Anglerfishes -- Classification.
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| Genre/Form |
Classification.
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| Subject |
NATURE -- Animals -- Reptiles & Amphibians. |
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- Ichthyology & Herpetology. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Oceanic anglerfishes Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009. 9780520255425 (case : alk. paper) (DLC) 2008048604 |
| ISBN |
9780520942554 ebook |
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0520942558 |
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9780520255425 case alkaline paper |
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0520255429 case alkaline paper |
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