Evidence for dispersal syndromes in freshwater fishes

Speciation in Freshwater Fishes

The extraordinary species richness of teleost fishes has attracted much research on mechanisms and modes of speciation. We here review research on speciation in freshwater fish in light of speciation theory, and place this in a context of knowledge about broad-scale diversity patterns in freshwater fishes. We structure our review around the major axes of divergence during speciation in freshwat...

Dispersal in freshwater invertebrates

Synopsis of the Parasites in Iranian Freshwater Fishes

  Two hundred forty seven species of parasites from Iranian freshwater fishes are presented in this synopsis. The parasites were recorded from infestations in fish from different parts of the country and summarized according to host species, organs were the parasite infestations occurred, province, faunal region and reference numbers. The following aspects of parasite infestations were also dis...

Synopsis of the Parasites in Iranian Freshwater Fishes

  Two hundred forty seven species of parasites from Iranian freshwater fishes are presented in this synopsis. The parasites were recorded from infestations in fish from different parts of the country and summarized according to host species, organs were the parasite infestations occurred, province, faunal region and reference numbers. The following aspects of parasite infestations were a...

Freshwater fishes, dispersal ability, and nonevidence: "gondwana life rafts" to the rescue.

In a recent issue of Systematic Biology, Briggs (2003: Fishes and Birds: Gondwana Life Rafts Reconsidered, pp. 548–553) examines the current distributions of four vertebrate clades (cichlid fishes, aplocheiloid killifishes, ratites, and parrots), which have been attributed to the Mesozoic fragmentation of Gondwana (Parenti, 1981; Stiassny, 1991; Murphy and Collier, 1997; Farias et al., 1999). B...