When do fishes become juveniles?

Metamorphosis and the transition from larvae or embryos to juveniles in fishes are important in order to answer, for example, questions about: (1) life-history styles and their modifications in evolutionary perspective and within current environmental dem

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Developments in environmental biology of fishes 19 Series Editor EUGENE K. BALON

When do fishes become juveniles? Guest Editors: Gordon H. Copp, Vladimir Kovac & Karol Hensel

Reprinted from Environmental biology offishes, Volume 56 (1-2), 1999 with addition of species and subject index

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SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V.

A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the library of Congress

ISBN 978-94-017-3678-7 (eBook) ISBN 978-90-481-5305-3 DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-3678-7

Cover design by Eugene and Janusz Balon using tails of a roach larva and juvenile from the 1956 paper

The logo designed by Eli:bieta Sierakowska-Copp

Printed on acid-free paper

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Originally published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in 1999

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CONTENTS Prelude: looking at early development in fishes, by V. Kovac & G. H. Copp

7-14

Keynote presentation

Alternative ways to become a juvenile or a definitive phenotype (and on some persisting linguistic offenses), by E.K. Balon

17-38

Part 1. Reflections on early ontogeny and metamorphosis

Features of transition from larva to juvenile in fishes with different types of early ontogeny, by D.A. Pavlov Thyroxine as a mediator of metamorphosis of Atlantic halibut, Hippoglossus hippoglossus, by J.S. Solbakken, B. Norberg, K. Watanabe & K. Pittman Early development of the sofie, Chondrostoma toxostoma, by R.E. Gozlan, G.H. Copp & J.-N. Tourenq The reproductive biology and early ontogeny of the mouthbrooding Banggai cardinalfish, Pterapogon kauderni (Perciformes, Apogonidae), by A. Vagelli The onset of the juvenile period in carp, Cyprinus carpio: a literature survey, by L. Vilizzi & K.F. Walker

41-52 53-65 67-77 79-92 93-102

Part 2. Organism-environment relationships

Morphometry of the stone loach, Barbatula barbatula: do mensural characters reflect the species' life history thresholds? by V. Kovac, G.H. Copp & M.P. Francis Correspondence between ontogenetic shifts in morphology and habitat use in minnow Phoxinus phoxinus, by P.O. Simonovic, P. Garner, E.A. Eastwood, V. Kovac & G.H. Copp Fish, flows and flood plains: links between freshwater fishes and their environment in the Murray-Darling River system, Australia, by P. Humphries, A.J. King & J.D. Koehn Comparison of growth plasticity in the laboratory and field, and implications for the onset of juvenile development in sofie, Chondrostoma toxostoma, by R.E. Gozlan, G.H. Copp & J.-N. Tourenq

105-115 117-128 129-151 153-165

Part 3. Ontogeny of predator-prey interactions

A review of predation impact by 0+ fish on zooplankton in fresh and brackish waters of the temperate northern hemisphere, by T. Mehner & R. Thiel Seasonal and diel utilisation of inshore microhabitats by larvae