The Behaviour of Teleost Fishes
This book is about the behaviour of teleosts, a well-defined, highly successful, taxonomic group of vertebrate animals sharing a common body plan and forming the vast majority of living bony fishes. There are weH over 22000 living species of teleosts, inc
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THE BEHAVIOUR OF TELEOST FISHES
Edited by TONY J. PITCHER Senior Lecturer in Zoology, University College of North Wales, Bangor, Gwynedd LL57 2UW, UK
qp CROOM HELM London & Sydney
© 1986 Tony J. Pitcher
Softcover reprint ofthe hardcover 1st edition 1986 Croom Helm Lid, Provident House, Burrell Row, Beckenham, Kent BR3 lAT Croom Helm Australia Pty Lid, Suite 4, 6th Floor, 64-76 Kippax Street, Surry Hills, NSW 2010, Australia British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data The Behaviour of teleost fishes. 1. Teleostei-Behaviour I. Pitcher, Tony J. 597' .50451 QL615 ISBN 978-1-4684-8263-8 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4684-8261-4
ISBN 978-1-4684-8261-4 (eBook)
Typeset in lOpt Times Roman by Leaper & Gard Ltd, Bristol, England
CONTENTS
List of Contributors Preface Acknowledgements PART ONE: BASES OF BERAVIOUR Introduction T.J. Pitcher
1
1.
Genetic Basis of Fish Behaviour
D.L. G. Noakes
2.
Motivational Basis of Fish Behaviour
P. Colgan
23
3.
Development of Behaviour in Fishes
F.A Huntingford
47
PART TWO: SENSORY MODALITIES Introduction T.J. Pitcher
71
4.
Role of Vision in Fish Behaviour
5.
Underwater Sound and Fish Behaviour
6.
Role of Olfaction in Fish Behaviour
7.
Role of the Lateral Line in Fish Behaviour
D.M. Guthrie AD. Hawkins
T.J. Hara H. Bleckmann
PART THREE: BEHAVIOURAL ECOLOGY Introduction T.J. Pitcher 8.
Foraging in Teleost Fishes
9.
Constraints Placed by Predators on Feeding Behaviour M. Milinski
P.J.B. Hart
12.
75 114 152 177
205 211
G. Turner
236 253
Williams' Principle: an Explanation of Parental Care in Teleost Fishes R C. Sargent and M.R. Gross
275
Functions of Shoaling Behaviour in Teleosts T.J. Pitcher
294
10. Teleost Mating: Systems and Strategies 11.
3
AE. Magurran
13.
Individual Differences in Fish Behaviour
14.
Fish Behaviour by Day, Night and Twilight G.S. Helfman
366
Intertidal Teleosts: Life in a Fluctuating Environment RN. Gibson
388
Behavioural Ecology of Sticklebacks G.J. FitzGerald and R.J. Wootton Behavioural Ecology of Cave-dwelling Fishes J. Parze/all
409 433
15. 16. 17.
338
PART FOUR: APPLIED FISH BEHAVIOUR Introduction T.J. Pitcher
461
18.
Fish Behaviour and Fishing Gear
463
19.
Fish Behaviour and the Management of Freshwater Fisheries K. O'Hara
es. Wardie
496
Author Index
523
Fish Index
536
Subject Index
543
To Susannah and Tamsin
CONTRIBUTORS
H. Bleckmann: Department of Neurosciences A-001, School of Medicine, University of Califomia at San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA P. Colgan: Department of Biology, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6 G..T. FitzGerald: Departement de Biologie, Universite Laval, Cite Universitaire, Quebec, P.Q., Canada G1K 7P4 R.N. Gibson: Scottish Marine Biological Association, Dunstaffnage Marine Research Laboratory, PO Box 3, Oban, Argyll PA34 4AD, UK D.M. Guthrie: Department of Zoology, Williamson Building, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK M.R. Gross: Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V5A lS6 T.
