Amazonian invaders in an Asian biodiversity hotspot: Understanding demographics for the management of the armoured sailfin catfish, Pterygoplichthys pardalis in Kerala, India.

abstract：:The growth, physiology and skin pigmentation of pacamã Lophiosilurus alexandri juveniles were evaluated in an experiment using different tank colours (white, yellow, green, blue, brown and black) over an 80 day period. The tank colours did not cause significant differences to final body mass, total length, survival ra...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Costa DC,Mattioli CC,Silva WS,Takata R,Leme FO,Oliveira AL,Luz RK

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Size and age estimates at sexual maturity were determined for 162 male and 273 female little skates Leucoraja erinacea collected from the western Gulf of Maine. Maturity ogives suggest that 50% maturity in females occurs at age 9.5 years and 480 mm total length (LT), whereas 50% maturity in males occurs at a slightly ...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Cicia AM,Driggers WB 3rd,Ingram GW Jr,Kneebone J,Tsang PC,Koester DM,Sulikowski JA

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Juvenile steelhead Oncorhynchus mykiss from a northern California Central Valley population were reared in a controlled laboratory experiment. Significantly different rates of growth were observed among fish reared under two ration treatments and three temperature treatments (8, 14 and 20°C). Wider circulus spacing an...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Beakes MP,Sharron S,Charish R,Moore JW,Satterthwaite WH,Sturm E,Wells BK,Sogard SM,Mangel M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Variation in the body morphology of juvenile brown trout Salmo trutta was studied for both wild and hatchery-reared individuals from the same gene pool. The thin-plate spline (TPS) method by pointing landmarks was used to characterize juveniles from their natal environment, the River Kuusinkijoki in eastern Finland, a...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Vehanen T,Huusko A

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Darters (Percidae: Etheostomatinae), a species-rich group of North American freshwater fishes, vary in the presence of a premaxillary fraenum, a strip of skin that connects the premaxillary bones to the snout, and it is hypothesized that this trait is a trophic adaptation to particular substrata. Ancestral state recon...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Ciccotto PJ,Mendelson TC

更新日期：2015-10-01 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：:To resolve varied and sometimes conflicting accounts of spawning and habitat characteristics for winter flounder Pseudopleuronectes americanus, seasonal patterns in abundance and reproductive condition were investigated in the New York Bight, near the southern edge of their current reproductive range. Fish were collec...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Wuenschel MJ,Able KW,Byrne D

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new species of Odontostilbe is described from the rio Jaciparaná, rio Madeira basin, Rondônia, Brazil. Odontostilbe pacaasnovos differs from all its congeners, except O. pequira, by the colour pattern. Additionally, it differs from its congeners by the terminal mouth, number of cusps in the teeth of the premaxilla (...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Chuctaya J,Ohara WM,Malabarba LR

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reproductive cycle of seven common species (Gobius paganellus, Gobius bucchichi, Gobius cobitis, Parablennius sanguinolentus, Salaria pavo, Tripterygion tartessicum and Symphodus roissali) on rocky shores in the Gulf of Cadiz and their relationship with the sea surface temperature (SST) is analysed. Partial data o...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Compaire JC,Casademont P,Gómez-Cama C,Soriguer MC

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Female response to various aspects of male trait morphology and the effect of female feeding motivation were investigated in the swordtail characin Corynopoma riisei, a species where males are equipped with a flag-like food-mimicking ornament that grows from the operculum. Unfed females responded more strongly to the ...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Amcoff M,Kolm N

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Partial migration, where only some individuals from a population migrate, has been widely reported in a diverse range of animals. In this paper, what is known about the causes and consequences of partial migration in fishes is reviewed. Firstly, the ultimate and proximate drivers of partial migration are reflected upo...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Chapman BB,Hulthén K,Brodersen J,Nilsson PA,Skov C,Hansson LA,Brönmark C

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By using freshwater fish stocking information from the Mexican government, this work described the current situation of the national stocking and its associated fishery policy. There is a lack of effective freshwater stocking programmes as a result of limited fisheries management, unharmonized fisheries regulations an...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Ibáñez AL,Pérez-Ramírez M,García-Calderón JL

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gymnotus capanema n. sp. is described on the basis of cytogenetic, morphometric, meristic and osteological data from nine specimens (one male and eight females) from the municipality of Capanema, Pará, in the eastern Amazon of Brazil. Later, three additional specimens were found in museums and regarded as nontypes (no...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Milhomem SS,Crampton WG,Pieczarka JC,Shetka GH,Silva DS,Nagamachi CY

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A revised diagnosis for the smiliogastrin genus Clypeobarbus is provided and a new species, Clypeobarbus breviclipeus, from the Kwilu River (Kasai Basin) of central Africa, is described. Another species co-occurring in the Kwilu system, 'Barbus' matthesi, shares all diagnostic morphological synapomorphies of Clypeobar...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Stiassny ML,Sakharova H

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Landmark-based geometric morphometrics were used to evaluate the effect of flow and depth in the water column on the body size and shape of Brycon henni from river and stream populations. The dendrogram showed that stream populations clustered apart and showed significantly smaller centroid size and narrower bodies th...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Restrepo-Escobar N,Hurtado-Alarcón JC,Mancera-Rodríguez NJ,Márquez EJ

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The photoreceptors and eyes of four fish species commonly cohabiting Fennoscandian lakes with different light transmission properties were compared: pikeperch Sander lucioperca, pike Esox lucius, perch Perca fluviatilis and roach Rutilus rutilus. Each species was represented by individuals from a clear (greenish) and ...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Jokela-Määttä M,Viljanen M,Nevala N,Donner K,Brönmark C

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As far as is known, in this paper the first case of lacking of skin-related structures (epidermis, stratum laxum, dermal denticles and teeth) in a free-swimming elasmobranch, the blackmouth catshark, Galeus melastomus, is reported. The individual was caught by trawl in Sardinian waters (central-western Mediterranean) ...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Mulas A,Bellodi A,Porcu C,Cau A,Coluccia E,Demurtas R,Marongiu MF,Pesci P,Follesa MC

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new species of the catfish genus Centromochlus (Auchenipteridae, Centromochlinae) is described. The new species is diagnosed by having numerous dark rounded blotches over the body and fins, dorsal-fin spine with serrations anteriorly and smooth posteriorly, anal fin of mature males with three unbranched and seven br...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Birindelli JL,Sarmento-Soares LM,Lima FC

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we present records of sharks obtained using baited remote underwater stereo-video systems (stereo-BRUVS) at two Brazilian oceanic islands. Fourteen of the 60 deployments recorded 19 sharks in Trindade Island. In Saint Peter and Saint Paul Archipelago (SPSPA), two pelagic and two demersal deployments recorded two ...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Pimentel CR,Andrades R,Ferreira CEL,Gadig OBF,Harvey ES,Joyeux JC,Giarrizzo T

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The behaviour of sexually mature Arctic charr Salvelinus alpinus specimens (fifth farm generation) was observed in captivity for four consecutive days. Only agonistic interactions between males of different size were facilitated on the first 2 days, while both agonistic and courtship interactions were possible from th...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Bolgan M,O'Brien J,Picciulin M,Manning L,Gammell M

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fish assemblages along the longitudinal course of an old, disconnected and modified side arm of the Danube floodplain downstream of Vienna, Austria, as well as habitat structure, hydro-morphological and hydro-chemical factors, were investigated in order to analyse the key environmental determinants of the European mud...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Sehr M,Keckeis H

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In gilthead sea bream Sparus aurata held in groups of two, five or 10 fish, social hierarchies were observed. Subordinate S. aurata were characterized by elevation of basal levels of plasma cortisol, together with a reduced immunological potential. Subordinate fish also showed lower feed intake, feed utilization and l...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Montero D,Lalumera G,Izquierdo MS,Caballero MJ,Saroglia M,Tort L

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An integrated socioecological model was developed to evaluate the potential for stock enhancement with hatchery fishes to achieve socioeconomic and conservation objectives in recreational fisheries. As a case study, this model was applied to the red drum Sciaenops ocellatus recreational fishery in the Tampa Bay estuar...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Camp EV,Lorenzen K,Ahrens RN,Allen MS

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because trace elements of otoliths are considered a natural marker capable of recognizing the chemical composition of ambient water and fish migration history, these elements could be potentially used to analyse the movement of reproductive (R) and non-reproductive (NR) mature-sized fish. Supposedly, it is not essenti...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Bani A,Abdollahi R,Karimi N,Lyle JM,Thompson J

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We explored patterns, rates and unexpected socio-ecological consequences of tooth replacement in serrasalmids and characids of the Peruvian Amazon using microcomputed tomography. Of 24 specimens collected in February 2019, representing a mix of red-bellied piranha Pygocentrus nattereri, redeye piranha Serrasalmus rhom...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Stuart CE,Green SJ,Vernygora O,LeBlanc ARH,Bertschi MH,Brown M

更新日期：2020-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Between 2000 and 2002, three artisanal landing sites were sampled in southern Chile, with data on population structure and reproductive development collected from 5477 yellownose skates Zearaja chilensis. Total length (L(T) ) ranged from 33 to 158 cm for females and 34 to 155 cm for males. No sexual dimorphism was evi...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Bustamante C,Vargas-Caro C,Oddone MC,Concha F,Flores H,Lamilla J,Bennett MB

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The remarkable fish diversity in the Caribbean rivers of north-western South America evolved under the influences of the dramatic environmental changes of neogene northern South America, including the Quechua Orogeny and Pleistocene climate oscillations. Although this region is not the richest in South America, endemi...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Jiménez-Segura LF,Galvis-Vergara G,Cala-Cala P,García-Alzate CA,López-Casas S,Ríos-Pulgarín MI,Arango GA,Mancera-Rodríguez NJ,Gutiérrez-Bonilla F,Álvarez-León R

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been demonstrated that growth hormone (GH) transgenic fish often posses a trait for fast growth. Here, we investigated the growth of F(4)'all-fish' GH transgenic carp Cyprinus carpio and their serum GH levels for a year. The results showed that F(4) all-fish GH transgenic carp were significantly larger in body ...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Zhong S,Wang YP,Pei DS,Luo DJ,Liao LJ,Zhu ZY

更新日期：2009-10-01 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：:According to Signal Detection Theory, the ability to detect a stimulus (discriminability, d') is inversely related to the magnitude of internal and external noise. In this study, downstream moving brown trout Salmo trutta were used to investigate whether external hydrodynamic noise (in this case turbulence) could mask...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Kerr JR,Kemp PS

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00