Molecular characterization of Malapterurus minjiriya Sagua, 1987 and phylogenetic relationships within the genus Malapterurus (Silurifomes, Malapteruridae) from Nigerian inland water bodies.

abstract：:Populations of endemic Croatian dace were found to belong to two different species, one of which is first described in this study. Telestes karsticus sp. nov. differed morphologically from Telestes polylepis in the total count of lateral line scales, number of gill rakers and the shape of the posterior margin of the a...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Marčić Z,Buj I,Duplić A,Caleta M,Mustafić P,Zanella D,Zupančič P,Mrakovčić M

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The otolith was used to investigate the variability between Aphanopus carbo and Aphanopus intermedius inhabiting the north-eastern Atlantic Ocean. The results indicate a high degree of morphological affinity between species and areas; a noticeable metabolic change in the otolith shape was noted in the specimens of A. ...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Tuset VM,Parisi-Baradad V,Lombarte A

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The swimming behaviour of coral-reef fish larvae from 20 species of 10 different families was tested under natural and artificial sound conditions. Underwater sounds from reef habitats (barrier reef, fringing reef and mangrove) as well as a white noise were broadcasted in a choice chamber experiment. Sixteen of the 20...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Parmentier E,Berten L,Rigo P,Aubrun F,Nedelec SL,Simpson SD,Lecchini D

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the spatial and environmental variation in demographic processes of fisheries target species, such as coral grouper (Genus: Plectropomus), is important for establishing effective management and conservation strategies. Herein we compare the demography of Plectropomus leopardus and P. laevis between Austr...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Payet SD,Lowe JR,Mapstone BD,Pratchett MS,Sinclair-Taylor TH,Taylor BM,Waldie PA,Harrison HB

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey of soft sediment tide pools was conducted to assess the occupation and assemblage of fishes on three different intertidal shores in Moreton Bay, Australia, between January and December 2009. Tide-pool volume ranged from 0· 30 to 29· 75 l and varied significantly between months and sites. A total of 1364 indiv...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Chargulaf CA,Townsend KA,Tibbetts IR

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electroreception in marine fishes occurs across a variety of taxa and is best understood in the chondrichthyans (sharks, skates, rays, and chimaeras). Here, we present an up-to-date review of what is known about the biology of passive electroreception and we consider how electroreceptive fishes might respond to electr...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Newton KC,Gill AB,Kajiura SM

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Common carp Cyprinus carpio were introduced into Australia on several occasions and are now the dominant fish in the Murray-Darling Basin (MDB), the continent's largest river system. In this study, variability at 14 microsatellite loci was examined in C. carpio (n = 1037) from 34 sites throughout the major rivers in t...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Haynes GD,Gilligan DM,Grewe P,Nicholas FW

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of digestion by a predatory fish (largemouth bass Micropterus salmoides) on stable isotopic (delta(13)C and delta(18)O) and trace elemental (Sr:Ca and Ba:Ca) compositions of prey fish (bluegill Lepomis macrochirus) otoliths was investigated in a laboratory experiment. Trace element and stable-isotopic signa...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Phelps QE,Noatch MR,Lewis HA,Myers DJ,Zeigler JM,Eichelberger JS,Saltzgiver MJ,Whitledge GW

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we investigate the period of successful spawning for black bream Acanthopagrus butcheri, an obligate estuarine species in southern Australia that typically spawn in spring and early summer. However, back-calculated spawning dates of juveniles sampled in Gippsland Lakes, Victoria from February to May 201...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Jenkins GP,Kent JA,Woodland RJ,Warry F,Swearer SE,Cook PLM

更新日期：2018-11-01 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：: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：:Juvenile and adult scale characteristics were used to compare two juvenile groups of Atlantic salmon in a large subarctic river in northern Scandinavia: individuals that have migrated from the main stem into small tributaries and those which remain in the main stem. Body size and scale measurements indicated enhanced ...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Erkinaro J,Dempson JB,Julkunen M,Niemelä E

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For the first time, radio-tracking observations were made over 24 h cycles during the growing season to quantify the habitat use and home range of Zingel asper, a critically endangered fish species, endemic to the Rhône River with a high risk of extinction (IUCN). New advances in radio telemetry with regard to the siz...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Cavalli L,Knight CM,Durbec M,Chappaz R,Gozlan RE

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laboratory behavioural observation and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis were conducted to examine whether the movement of the elongated dorsal and pelvic spines changed the hydrodynamic drag in white-streaked grouper Epinephelus ongus larvae. The behavioural observation in the tank revealed that the larvae ...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Kawabata Y,Nishihara GN,Yamaguchi T,Takebe T,Teruya K,Sato T,Soyano K

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cetopsis varii sp. nov. Cetopsidae (Cetopsinae) is described from the Río Meta basin in eastern Colombia, at middle portions of the Río Orinoco basin. The new species differs from congeners by a combination of features: the absence of a humeral spot, presence of eye, conical teeth on vomer and dentary and rounded post...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Abrahão VP,de Pinna MCC

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The goals of this project were to determine the daily, seasonal and spatial patterns of red grouper Epinephelus morio sound production on the West Florida Shelf (WFS) using passive acoustics. An 11 month time series of acoustic data from fixed recorders deployed at a known E. morio aggregation site showed that E. mori...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Wall CC,Simard P,Lindemuth M,Lembke C,Naar DF,Hu C,Barnes BB,Muller-Karger FE,Mann DA

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:American shad Alosa sapidissima, an anadromous clupeid, exhibits variation in reproductive strategies, including semelparity and iteroparity. It provides an excellent model for studying the behaviour of germ cells in anadromous fish during their migration from sea to river. The vasa gene was characterized in A. sapidi...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Wu XL,Tang ZK,Li W,Chu ZJ,Hong XY,Zhu XP,Xu HY

更新日期：2018-05-01 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：:Radio-tagged adult Pacific lamprey Entosphenus tridentatus held in a raceway with Plexiglas-lined walls and bottom healed more slowly and retained sutures longer than fish held in an all-concrete raceway or one with Plexiglas walls and a cobble-lined bottom. On all substrata, healing depended on when sutures were lost...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Mesa MG,Magie RJ,Copeland ES,Christiansen HE

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Needlefishes (Beloniformes) were observed employing a range of stalking and attacking behaviours to attack schools of bait fishes ranging from the use of tactics common to predatory fishes to a novel behaviour: the use of leaping, aerial attacks. These aerial attacks are suggested to serve two purposes: to extend the ...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Day RD,Mueller F,Carseldine L,Meyers-Cherry N,Tibbetts IR

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study describes (1) the application of new methods to the discovery of informative single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers in chum salmon Oncorhynchus keta, (2) a method to resolve the linkage phase of closely linked SNPs and (3) a method to inexpensively genotype them. Finally, it demonstrates that these SN...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Garvin MR,Gharrett AJ

更新日期：2010-12-01 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：:Interactions between Lipophrys pholis and its amphipod prey Echinogammarus marinus were used to investigate the effect of changing water temperatures, comparing current and predicted mean summer temperatures. Contrary to expectations, predator attack rates significantly decreased with increasing temperature. Handling ...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： South J,Welsh D,Anton A,Sigwart JD,Dick JTA

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated whether the body morphology of the tetra fish Astyanax lacustris (previously Astyanax asuncionensis) varied between populations inhabiting one lagoon (a lentic, shallow environment, with great habitat complexity created by aquatic macrophytes) and an adjacent river (a deeper, lotic environment ...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Costa-Pereira R,Araújo MS,Paiva F,Tavares LE

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A re-evaluation of Dekeyseria brachyura and D. pulchra found them to be junior synonyms of D. picta, the oldest species among these congeners, based on continuous intraspecific variation in morphometrics and colour pattern. Examination of material deposited at Brazilian and Venezuelan collections, including the origin...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Silva RR,Rapp Py-Daniel LH

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In August 2007, October 2008 and September-October 2010, 241 Tucker trawl and plankton net tows were conducted at the surface to depths of 1377 m at six locations in the northern and eastern Gulf of Mexico (GOM) to document leptocephalus diversity and determine how assemblage structure, larval size, abundance and isot...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Quattrini AM,McClain-Counts J,Artabane SJ,Roa-Varón A,McIver TC,Rhode M,Ross SW

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemiodus bimaculatus sp. nov., is described from tributaries of the Rio Juruena and Rio Teles Pires in the upper Rio Tapajós basin. The new species is diagnosed from most congeners, except Hemiodus jatuarana, by having a conspicuous circular or horizontally elongate dark blotch on the caudal peduncle (v. inconspicuous...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Nogueira AF,Langeani F,Netto-Ferreira AL

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study tested the hypothesis of no delayed sublethal effects of mild angling and release on the feeding, growth, somatic condition and gonadal development of golden perch Macquaria ambigua during gametogenesis. Subsamples of adult M. ambigua (n = 17-21 of 207), originally captured from the wild and stocked ...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Hall KC,Broadhurst MK,Butcher PA,Cameron L,Rowland SJ,Millar RB

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From 2006 to 2009, 27 ultrasonic-tagged wild adult Chinese sturgeon Acipenser sinensis [eight males, 19 females; total length (L(T)) range = 245-368 cm] were captured on the spawning ground just downstream of Gezhouba Dam (GZD) in the Yangtze River. Twenty-six individuals were tracked for 7 to 707 days (mean number of...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Wang CY,Wei QW,Kynard B,Du H,Zhang H

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The predation of cookie-cutter sharks Isistius spp. upon the early life stages of yellowfin tuna Thunnus albacares, skipjack tuna Katsuwonus pelamis and little tunny Euthynnus alletteratus are described. New evidence suggesting a connection between commercial fishing and predation by Isistius sp. is presented, with th...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Niella YV,Duarte LAG,Bandeira VR,Crespo O,Beare D,Hazin FHV

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00