Biological Oceanography

(^) Eyes (Fig. 12.10) of the bigeye smooth-head (Bajacalifornia megalops, lengths to 28 cm) are optimized for spott ...

A range of distinctive visual designs are described for fish requiring extreme sensitivity to ben ...

Crustacean Eyes (^) Some species in the “lower” orders of crustacea have very simple eyes, basically a retin ...

In mysid, shrimp, and euphausiid species of the deep sea, the masking cells remain but lose pigment along ...

Getting Fed Down Deep (^) Mesopelagic fish that eat zooplankton can have quite regular meals ( ...

Fig. 12.12 Anoplogaster, the fang-tooth or mother-in-law fish. This is one of the instances of the extreme “cep ...

Childress and Price estimated time per instar for Gnathophausia in three ways: (^1) In the laboratory, n ...

male Gennadas elegans, a penaeoid shrimp. Curves were derived from size– frequency distributions based ...

(^) Mauchline (1988), in commenting on the results of Childress et al. (1980), noted that their data were v ...

chapter reasonably suggested that minimal movement and flaccid, low-maintenance muscles allow a higher portion ...

(^) (After Childress et al. 1980.) Fish in the general size range examined by Torres et al., with adult ...

crustaceans (squares) and cephalopods (filled circles), mostly squid, plotted against the shallowest depth at which ...

interesting polemic (Childress et al. 2008; Ikeda 2008). Fig. 12.19 Oxygen consumption per unit weight of copep ...

fecundity egg protectors and free-spawners with high fecundity extends well down in the water column. (^) S ...

oil globule, about 1/25th of its volume, enough to increase buoyancy slightly. In any case, the eggs and ...

Chapter 13 The fauna of deep-sea sediments Seafloor habitats are termed benthic (adjective), an organism ...

depths the pressure is 300 to 600 atmospheres. At any one site it is nearly invariant from a biological p ...

(^) It is not necessary for all purposes to collect animals. A great deal can be learned from photo- and vid ...

sometimes with distance-metering wheels alongside, are a modern version of this ancient concept. Fig. 1 ...

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