Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Typological thinking strikes again

Proudlove, G.S. 2006. Subterranean fishes of the world. International Society for Subterranean Biology, Moulis. 287 pp. US$ 65.

  • Book Critique
  • Published:
Environmental Biology of Fishes Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

References

  • Alvarez J (1946) Revisión del género Anoptichthys con descripción de una especie nueva (Pisc., Characidae). An Esc Nac Cienc Biol Mex 4:263–282

    Google Scholar 

  • Alvarez J (1947) Descripción de Anoptichthys hubbsi caracínido ciego de la cueva de los Sabinos, S.L.P. Rev Soc Mex Hist Nat 8:215–219

    Google Scholar 

  • Avise JC, Selander RK (1972) Evolutionary genetics of cave-dwelling fishes of the genus Astyanax. Evolution 26:1–19

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Dowling TE, Martasian DP, Jeffery WR (2002) Evidence for multiple genetic lineages with similar eyeless phenotypes in the blind cavefish Astyanax mexicanus. Mol Biol Evol 19:446–455

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Espinasa L, Rivas-Manzano P, Espinosa Pérez H (2001) A new blind cave fish population of genus Astyanax: geography, morphology and behavior. Environ Biol Fishes 63:339–344

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Glaubrecht M (2004) Leopold von Buch’s legacy: Treating species as dynamic natural entities, or why geography matters. Am Malacol Bull 19:111–134

    Google Scholar 

  • Hubbs CL, Innes WT (1936) The first known blind fish of the family Characidae:a new genus from Mexico. Occas Pap Mus Zool Univ Mich (342):1–7

  • Levit GS, Meister K (2006) The history of essentialism vs Ernst Mayr’s “Essentialism Story”: A case study of German idealistic morphology. Theory Biosci 124:281–307

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Mayr E (1982) The growth of biological thought. Diversity, evolution, and inheritance. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 975pp

    Google Scholar 

  • Romero A (2001) Scientists prefer them blind: The history of hypogean fish research. Environ Biol Fishes 62:43–71

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Romero A (2006) The big issue between science and religion: purpose vs. uncertainty. Forum on Public Policy 2(4):(in press)

  • Romero A, Green SM (2005) The end of regressive evolution: examining and interpreting the evidence from cave fishes. J Fish Biol 67:3–32

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Romero A, Paulson KM (2001) It is a wonderful hypogean life: A guide to the troglomorphic fishes of the world. Environ Biol Fishes 63:13–41

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Romero A., Singh A, McKie A, Manna M, Baker R, Paulson KM, Creswell JE (2002) Replacement of the Troglomorphic population of Rhamdia quelen (Pisces: Pimelodidae) by an Epigean population of the same species in the Cumaca Cave, Trinidad, West Indies. Copeia 2002(4):938–942

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Szalay FS, Bock WJ (1991) Evolutionary-theory and systematics - relationships between process and patterns. Zeits Zool Syst Evol 29:1–39

    Google Scholar 

  • Wilkens H (1971) Genetic interpretation of regressive evolutionary processes: Studies on hybrid eyes of two Astyanax cave populations (Characidae, Pisces). Evolution 25:530–544

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Biological Sciences, Arkansas State University, P.O. Box 559, State University, AR, 72467, USA

    Aldemaro Romero

Authors
  1. Aldemaro Romero
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Aldemaro Romero.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Romero, A. Typological thinking strikes again. Environ Biol Fish 81, 359–363 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10641-007-9206-9

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10641-007-9206-9

Keywords

Search

Navigation