Oceanic anglerfishes [[electronic resource] ] : extraordinary diversity in the deep sea / / Theodore W. Pietsch
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Pietsch Theodore W
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| Titolo: |
Oceanic anglerfishes [[electronic resource] ] : extraordinary diversity in the deep sea / / Theodore W. Pietsch
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| Pubblicazione: | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2009 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (571 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 597/.62 |
| Soggetto topico: | Anglerfishes |
| Soggetto non controllato: | absence of sunlight |
| anglerfish | |
| behavior | |
| benthic fish | |
| biology | |
| bioluminescence | |
| bony fish | |
| deep sea | |
| diversity | |
| earth sciences | |
| enormous pressure | |
| environmentalism | |
| evolution | |
| geographic distribution | |
| habitation | |
| low food supply | |
| marine biology | |
| morphology | |
| near freezing temperatures | |
| oceanic mid waters | |
| pelagic fish | |
| physiology | |
| reproduction | |
| sexual dimorphism | |
| sexual symbiosis | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 527-545) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. Introduction and Historical Perspective -- 2. What Makes an Anglerfish? -- 3. Biodiversity -- 4. Evolutionary Relationships -- 5. Geographic Distribution -- 6. Bioluminescence and Luring -- 7. Locomotion, Food, and Feeding -- 8. Reproduction and Early Life History -- Introduction -- 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 -- GLOSSARY -- REFERENCES -- ILLUSTRATION CREDITS -- INDEX |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Oceanic anglerfishes |
| ISBN: | 1-283-27715-8 |
| 9786613277152 | |
| 0-520-94255-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910820589903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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