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Influence of a major tsunami event on larval and juvenile fish assemblage composition associated with a seagrass habitat in Okirai Bay, Japan
On 11 March 2011, the Pacific coast in northeastern Japan was affected by the tsunami and land subsidence caused by the great east Japan earthquake....
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Passive eDNA collection enhances aquatic biodiversity analysis
Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding is a sensitive and widely used approach for species detection and biodiversity assessment. The most common...
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Diversity and spatiotemporal variation of an Eastern Tropical Pacific pelagic vertebrate community assessed with drifting pelagic BRUVS
Information about the composition of pelagic communities generally lags far behind that of coastal communities, and largely derives from fisheries...
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Corresponding planktivore and predator spatial distributions in an oceanic coral reef system
Understanding the drivers of food web community structure is a fundamental goal in ecology. While studies indicate that many coral reef predators...
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Genomic Structure and Molecular Characterization of Toll-like Receptors in Black Scraper Thamnaconus Modestus and Their Expression Response to Two Types of Pathogens
The black scraper ( Thamnaconus modestus ) is an important commercial species in China. However, with the rapid expansion of aquaculture, the culture...
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Nesting sites and parental care in the giant blue damselfish, Microspathodon dorsalis
Microspathodon dorsalis is a conspicuous territorial species found in rocky reef systems along the Eastern Pacific whose mating system is not fully...
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Integrative Cytogenetics, A Conservation Approach in Atlantic Fish: Concepts, Estimates, and Uses
Chromosomes are gene-carrying structures, whose organization and function are linked directly to the evolutionary history of the species. Lately,...
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Fisheries and Uses of Coastal Aquatic Fauna in the Northernmost Brazilian Atlantic Forest
Coastal ecosystems provide habitats and resources to a rich aquatic fauna explored by local people for subsistence and economic purposes. In this...
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The Fishes of the Gulf of Guinea Oceanic Islands
This chapter reviews the current knowledge of the marine (including deep-sea species) and freshwater fishes of the Gulf of Guinea oceanic islands....
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The Ichthyodiversity of the Red Sea: A Unique Extension of the Indian Ocean Biota
The Red Sea presents a narrow extension of the Indian Ocean surrounded by deserts. Its ichthyofauna comprises 1264 species (July 2019) belonging to...
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Evidence for two morphologically cryptic species of Hysterolecitha Linton, 1910 (Trematoda: Lecithasteridae) infecting overlap** host ranges in Moreton Bay, Australia
Integration of morphological and molecular approaches to species delineation has become an essential part of digenean trematode taxonomy,...
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Marine fish parasites in the Cat Ba Archipelago, Vietnam: the results of 2010-2023 field surveys
Between 2010 and 2023, a longitudinal study was undertaken to uncover the diversity of the parasite fauna of marine fishes in the Cat Ba Archipelago,...
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Influence of Coral Reef Rugosity on Fish Communities in Marine Reserves Around Lombok Island, Indonesia
Coral reef structural form is widely considered a key factor with respect to the availability of shelter and foraging spaces for fishes and...
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Reef fish fauna in the coastal waters of Vietnam
During the last few decades, several studies relating to coral reef fishes in Vietnam have been conducted and published for individual coral reefs...
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Parasitism in reef fish communities: evaluating the roles of host traits, habitat use, and phylogeny on infection by Scaphanocephalus (Trematoda)
Parasites represent a critically understudied component of reef communities—a knowledge gap that has become more evident as infectious diseases...
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Spatial- and size-related shifts in feeding habits of the common dolphinfish (Coryphaena hippurus) in the Southeast Pacific Ocean
Feeding habits of common dolphinfish ( Coryphaena hippurus ) were investigated in the Southeast Pacific Ocean using stomach content analysis. Stomachs...
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Ecological Diversity of Larval Fishes: Ontogeny of Deep-Sea Demersal Species
This chapter introduces the ecological diversity of larval and juvenile stages of fishes, using, as an example, the ontogeny of deep-sea demersal...
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Significance of fish–sponge interactions in coral reef ecosystems
Sponges (Porifera) are a key component of many coral reef ecosystems. In some biogeographic regions, they are considered the dominant benthic fauna...
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Structure and Function of Gill Cover and Branchiostegal Rays in Teleostei
Abstract —A comparative analysis of the diversity in structure of gill cover and branchiostegal rays in Teleostei is presented. The variants of these...
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A comparison of stereo-videos and visual census methods for assessing subtropical rocky reef fish assemblage
Visual census conducted by divers has remained the most common method for obtaining quantitative data on reef fish assemblages since it was first...
