Biology Reference
In-Depth Information
Additional morphological
changes
Group
Habitat
Niche shift Duration
Species and references
Flatfish
Marine
Pelagic to
benthic
Weeks
Cranial development
and eye migration,
asymmetrical pigmentation
Atlantic halibut
Hippoglossus hippoglossus
(
Sæle
et al., 2004
)
Japanese flounder
Paralichthys olivaceus
(
Tanaka, Kawai, Seikai, & Burke, 1996
)
Senegalese sole
Solea senegalensis
(
Fern´ndez-
D´az et al., 2001
)
Starry flounder
Platichthys stellatus
(
Policansky
& Sieswerda, 1979
)
Summer flounder
Paralichthys dentatus
(
Keefe
& Able, 1993; Martinez & Bolker, 2003
)
Multiple species (
Schreiber, 2001
)
Gobies
Amphidromous Marine to
freshwater
Days-
weeks
Change in mouth
position and fin shape
Freshwater goby
Sicyopterus lagocephalus
(
Keith et al., 2008; Taillebois et al., 2011
)
Groupers Marine
Pelagic to
benthic
Months
Loss of larval spines,
dorsoventral flattening
Spotted grouper
Epinephelus tauvina
(
Hussain & Higuchi, 1980
)
Leopard grouper
Mycteroperca rosacea
(
Mart´nez-Lagos & Gracia-L´pez, 2009
)
Hong Kong grouper
Epinephelus akaara
(
Fukuhara & Fushimi, 1988
)
Medaka
Amphidromous None
Days-
weeks
None
Medaka
Oryzias latipes
(
Iwamatsu, 1994
)
Sea Breams Marine
Pelagic to
benthic
Months None
Gilt-head sea bream
Sparus saurata
(
Fukuhara, 1991
)