ISBN10: 1402000766, ISBN13: 9781402000768, [publisher: Springer] Hardcover Book has an inch-wide band of yellowing and foxing at the bottom of the front cover. Light wear to the edges and corners, otherwise in very good condition. Well-bound with bright pages that are crisp and unmarked.
[San Jose, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2001]

Springer 2001 Hardcover Good++; Hardcover; Clean covers with minor edgewear; Unblemished textblock edges; The endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be stored and delivered in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium-Large Format (Quatro, 9.75Äù Äì 10.75Äù tall); White covers with fish drawing, and title in blue lettering; 2001, Springer-Verlag Publishing; 376 pages; "The Biology of Hypogean Fishes (Developments in Environmental Biology of Fishes), " by Aldemaro Romero.

ISBN10: 1402000766, ISBN13: 9781402000768, [publisher: Springer Netherlands] Hardcover Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Hypogean (cave, artesian) fishes have fascinated researchers even before they were described in the scientific literature in 1842. Since then, a number of scientists have used them to justify their own evolutionary ideas, from neo-Lamarckism to neo-Darwinism, from neutral evolution to selectionist approaches. Research in recent years has shown that these fishes are much more complex in their adaptations to the subterranean environment than previously believed: there are those with features expected from living in total darkness (complete blindness and depigmentation) and poor in nutrients (extremely low metabolic rates); others differ very little, if any, from their epigean (surface) ancestors in their morphology and physiology (but not so in their behavior). Some of them even live in nutrient-rich environments. Actually, one of the most overlooked facets of these animals is that there are more species of hypogean fishes without troglomorphisms (blindness, depigmentation) than with troglomorphic ones. The study of these apparently `unadapted' fishes is providing new insights into our understanding of the evolution of phenotypic characters, founding effect, behavioral, and physiological adaptations. The 86 species of troglomorphic fishes described so far belong to 18 different families, many of which would hardly fit the n ...
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