Freshwater fish faunas, habitats and conservation challenges in the Caribbean river basins of north-western South America.

abstract：:Anchoviella hernanni sp. nov. is described from the upper Amazon River basin, in tributaries of the Marañon, Ucayali and Madre de Dios river drainages that drain the Peruvian Andes. The new taxon can be distinguished from all congeners except Anchoviella jamesi, Anchoviella manamensis and Anchoviella perezi, by having...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Loeb MV,Varella HR,Menezes NA

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to characterize histological changes during opercular osteogenesis in farmed gilthead sea bream Sparus aurata larvae from 7 to 69 days post hatching (dph) and compare normal osteogenesis with that of deformed opercles. Mild opercular deformities were first detected in 19 dph larvae by folding...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Thuong NP,Verstraeten B,Kegel BD,Christiaens J,Wolf TD,Sorgeloos P,Bonte D,Adriaens D

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fecundity data for four species (American plaice Hippoglossoides platessoides, yellowtail flounder Limanda ferruginea, witch flounder Glyptocephalus cynoglossus and Atlantic cod Gadus morhua) of north-west Atlantic demersal fishes, corresponding to nine populations, were examined in relation to fish size and condition...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Rideout RM,Morgan MJ

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A comparative cytogenetic analysis, using both conventional staining techniques and fluorescence in situ hybridization, of six Indo-Pacific moray eels from three different genera (Gymnothorax fimbriatus, Gymnothorax flavimarginatus, Gymnothorax javanicus, Gymnothorax undulatus, Echidna nebulosa and Gymnomuraena zebra)...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Coluccia E,Deidda F,Cannas R,Lobina C,Cuccu D,Deiana AM,Salvadori S

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laser photogrammetry was found to be a promising new cost-effective technique for measuring free-swimming whale sharks Rhincodon typus. Photogrammetric measurements were more precise than visual size estimates by experienced researchers, with results from the two methods differing by 9· 8 ± 1· 1% (mean ±s.e.). A new m...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Rohner CA,Richardson AJ,Marshall AD,Weeks SJ,Pierce SJ

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coping style is defined as a set of individual physiological and behavioural characteristics that are consistent across time and context. In the zebrafish Danio rerio, as well as in many other animals, several covariations have been established among behavioural, physiological and molecular responses. Nonetheless, not...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Alfonso S,Peyrafort M,Cousin X,Bégout ML

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tench Tinca tinca is a freshwater species with human-mediated translocations, aquaculture interest and limited information on its genetic structure. mtDNA sequencing analysis of control region and two genes in 50 individuals from five European populations identified two phylogroups, with greater variability than t...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Karaiskou N,Gkagkavouzis K,Minoudi S,Botskaris D,Markou K,Kalafatakis S,Antonopoulou E,Triantafyllidis A

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of maximum depth of occurrence of 11 952 marine fish species shows a global decrease in species number (N) with depth (x; m): log10 N = -0·000422x + 3·610000 (r(2)  = 0·948). The rate of decrease is close to global estimates for change in pelagic and benthic biomass with depth (-0·000430), indicating that spe...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Priede IG,Froese R

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The composition, species richness and diversity of a coastal fish assemblage from the Kalpakkam coast of south-east India are described along with temporal distribution patterns related to seasonal fluctuations in dissolved oxygen, salinity, pH, chlorophyll-a, phytoplankton and zooplankton species richness and density...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Biswas S,Hussain KJ,Das NP,Russell BC,Satpathy KK,Mishra SS

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two separate field experiments were conducted in a series of small boreal lakes to test for the attraction of egg predators to lake trout Salvelinus namaycush spawning shoals and subsequently to determine whether chemosensory cues attract egg predators to these sites. In the first experiment, minnow traps set on spawn...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Wasylenko BA,Callaghan DT,Blanchfield PJ,Pyle GG

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Substrate specificity in the seminal plasma and testes fluids of the common carp Cyprinus carpio was determined using gelatin, casein, albumin and haemoglobin. Proteolytic profiles of the testes and seminal plasma were compared. Different ranges of pH (5·5-9·5) and temperature (4-37° C) were used during incubations of...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Cejko BI,Słowińska M,Judycka S,Kowalski RK

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A multidisciplinary study was made of brown trout Salmo trutta in the Borne River, a typical fast-flowing mountain stream in the Northern French Alps, in the geographical range of the Mediterranean lineages (ML). Information on (1) the proportion of stocked fluoro-marked fish in the angling harvest, (2) the introgress...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Caudron A,Champigneulle A,Guyomard R

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An eco-genetic model tuned on a population of marble trout Salmo marmoratus subject to periodic flood events was used to explore how the evolution of growth rates interacting with density-dependent processes can modify size at age and population structure and in turn influence the resilience of populations. Fish with ...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Vincenzi S,Crivelli AJ,Satterthwaite WH,Mangel M

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The damselfish Chromis chromis is typically the most abundant fish species in the rocky littoral environment of the Mediterranean Sea, where it feeds in huge shoals on incoming zooplankton and rests near the seabed each night. Research has shown that large populations of C. chromis play a fundamental role by transferr...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Pinnegar JK

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution limits in the Atlantic of Callorhinchus callorynchus (Callorhinchidae) and Odontesthes argentinensis (Atherinopsidae) are extended northwards to 22° 22' S and 22° 31' S, respectively, whereas that of Lile piquitinga (Clupeidae) is extended southwards to 22° 22' S. Their occurrence in the north of Rio ...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Di Dario F,Petry AC,Mincarone MM,Pereira MM,dos Santos RM

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phylogenetic structure of four Lampetra species from the Pacific drainage of North America (western brook lamprey Lampetra richardsoni, Pacific brook lamprey Lampetra pacifica, river lamprey Lampetra ayresii and Kern brook lamprey Lampetra hubbsi) and unidentified Lampetra specimens (referred to as Lampetra sp.) from ...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Boguski DA,Reid SB,Goodman DH,Docker MF

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary objectives of this study were to document the macroscopic and histological structure of the alimentary tract (AT) of the convict cichlid Amatitlania nigrofasciata, because there are no data available for this omnivorous freshwater fish of the family Cichlidae. The morphology of the AT of A. nigrofasciata r...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Hopperdietzel C,Hirschberg RM,Hünigen H,Wolter J,Richardson K,Plendl J

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental tanks were used to observe predatory effects in three different size classes of Mozambique tilapia Oreochromis mossambicus (one of the world's most widespread exotic species and generally regarded to be a herbivore or both herbivore and detritivore) when tested against 10 juvenile Australian freshwater fi...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Doupé RG,Knott MJ,Schaffer J,Burrows DW

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The onset of piscivory in fish, resulting in a shift from zooplankton or invertebrate to fish prey, was studied on pikeperch (Sander lucioperca) larvae displaying and not displaying piscivorous behaviour at different ages (23, 30, 37, 44 and 52 days post-hatching) using behavioural (attack, capture and swimming activi...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Colchen T,Dias A,Gisbert E,Teletchea F,Fontaine P,Pasquet A

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel Caribbean species Albula sp. cf. vulpes in the family Albulidae (bonefishes) was diagnosed through genetic and morphometric study. Phylogenies derived from 16S rRNA sequences revealed deeply separated lineages among Caribbean bonefishes. Mitochondrial DNA sequence divergences indicated a separation between 3.0...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Wallace EM,Tringali MD

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Migration behaviour and estuarine mortality of cultivated Atlantic salmon Salmo salar smolts in a 16 km long estuary were studied using two methods: (1) acoustic telemetry and (2) group tagging in combination with trap nets. Progression rates of surviving individuals through the estuary were relatively slow using both...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Vollset KW,Mahlum S,Davidsen JG,Skoglund H,Barlaup BT

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using tagged and recaptured Atlantic salmon Salmo salar (n = 106) the present analysis shows that the most commonly applied linear back-calculation method for estimating past length, the Dahl-Lea method, resulted in overestimation of the length of large smolts and underestimation of small smolts. A correction equation...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Hanson NN,Smith GW,Middlemas SJ,Todd CD

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A wide range of classification schemes has been developed to describe reproductive development and stages in teleosts. These have been rationalised for clarity in recent years by Brown-Peterson et al. (Marine and Coastal Fisheries, 2011, 3, 52-70) and the WKASMSF (ICES, Report of the workshop for advancing sexual matu...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Treasurer JW

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was conducted to evaluate the potential pathogenicity of the bacterium Flavobacterium columnare on rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss eyed eggs. Survival to hatching was unaffected by the inclusion in the incubation water of either 300 colony-forming units (CFU) ml(-1) or 3000 CFU ml(-1) of F. columnare at e...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Barnes ME,Bergmann D,Jacobs J,Gabel M

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of trophic exposure to pyrolitic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) on aerobic metabolism of zebrafish Danio rerio was investigated. There were no significant differences in standard metabolic rate (SMR), active metabolic rate (AMR) or aerobic metabolic scope (AS) at any sublethal concentration of PAH i...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Lucas J,Bonnieux A,Lyphout L,Cousin X,Miramand P,Lefrançois C

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Levels of boldness and the degree of aggressiveness were compared in juvenile three-spined sticklebacks Gasterosteus aculeatus that had hatched early and late in the breeding season. The most striking result found in this study was that early hatched individuals were bolder when exploring a novel environment than were...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Ruiz-Gomez ML,Huntingford FA

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diets of 21 terapontid species from freshwater environments in northern Australia were investigated to determine the similarity and dissimilarity among species and the extent of any ontogenetic shifts. Distinct ontogenetic dietary shifts occurred in all species for which sufficient data were available, with many s...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Davis AM,Pearson RG,Pusey BJ,Perna C,Morgan DL,Burrows D

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first record of the smooth puffer Lagocephalus laevigatus from Galician waters (north-west Spain) is reported. Three possible mechanisms of introduction of the specimen are considered: natural displacement, the aquarist trade and transport in ballast water. ...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Bañón R,Santás V

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural abundance stable-isotope analysis (δ(13)C and δ(15)N) and C:N ratios were used to study the ammocoete phase of two common non-parasitic lamprey species (least brook lamprey Lampetra aepyptera and American brook lamprey Lethenteron appendix) in two tributaries of the Ohio River (U.S.A.). The C:N ratios suggest ...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Evans TM,Bauer JE

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chaetostoma chimu sp. nov. is described from 119 specimens collected in the Andean foothills of the Orinoco River in Colombia. The new species can be distinguished from congeners by a combination of characters, including shape of cheek odontodes, presence of a supraoccipital excrescence, sexual dimorphism characters a...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Urbano-Bonilla A,Ballen GA

更新日期：2020-12-05 00:00:00