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Ecological relations in the evolution of acanthopterygian fishes in warm-temperate communities of the northeastern Pacific

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The species composition of acanthopterygian fishes in warm-temperate communities of the northeastern Pacific reflects the influence of ecological relations on teleostean evolution. The species are of either temperate or tropical derivation, with the temperate derivatives (e.g., scorpaeniforms, pleuronectiforms and zoarcoid perciforms) being mostly generalized carnivores, and the tropical derivatives (almost all of them perciforms) ranging from generalized carnivores to a diversity of specialized carnivores and herbivores. The tropical group dominates, with species of the labroid families Pomacentridae, Embiotocidae and Labridae being especially prominent, based mainly on specialized abilities to feed on sessile invertebrates and zooplankters. Other perciforms of tropical stock that do well here include kyphosids, which are herbivores. These trophic capabilities have been inherited from tropical ancestors and are poorly developed among the temperate derivatives. Despite their successes in warm-temperate habitats, few tropical derivatives have extended their distributions into the cold-temperate region; similarly, temperate derivatives have been to a large extent limited in spreading southward into the warm-temperate region. These limits to distribution cannot be attributed to problems with food resources, but are readily explained by effects of surface currents on early life-history stages in this coastal upwelling system.

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Hobson, E.S. Ecological relations in the evolution of acanthopterygian fishes in warm-temperate communities of the northeastern Pacific. Environ Biol Fish 40, 49–90 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00002182

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