The world's oceans are home to many fantastic creatures, including about 16,000 species of
actinopterygian, or ray-finned, fishes. Notably, 85% of marine fish species come from a …

Coral Reef Fishes is the successor of The Ecology of Fishes on Coral Reefs. This new
edition includes provocative reviews covering the major areas of reef fish ecology. Concerns …

Background How particular changes in functional morphology can repeatedly promote
ecological diversification is an active area of evolutionary investigation. The African rift-lake …

Trade‐offs in foraging efficiency leading to divergent natural selection between and within
populations exploiting different resources are thought to be a primary cause of trophic …

Researchers strive to understand what makes species different, and what allows them to
survive in the time and space that they do. Many models have been advanced which …

Prey-capture behavior is unique because in many vertebrates, it requires the coordination
between cranial and postcranial functional systems, which are traditionally defined by their …

We characterized prey-capture strategies in seven species of cichlid fishes representing
diverse trophic habits and anticipated feeding abilities. The species examined were Petenia …

With predation and carnivory as catalysts, the first known eye appeared in a trilobite during
the Cambrian explosion approximately 543 million years ago. This period was a crucible of …

Of the 5000 fish species on coral reefs, corals dominate the diet of just 41 species. Most
(61%) belong to a single family, the butterflyfishes (Chaetodontidae). We examine the …

The damselfishes, with more than 340 species, constitute one of the most important families
that live in the coral reef environment. Most of our knowledge of reef-fish ecology is based …