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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 )
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