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ICHTHYOLOGICAL RESEARCH
卷 51, 期 4, 页码 295-300出版社
SPRINGER TOKYO
DOI: 10.1007/s10228-004-0232-8
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morphological characteristics; large body size; introduction; threespine stickleback; Lake Towada
A freshwater population of the threespine stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus occurs at an elevation of 400 m in Lake Towada in the mountains of northern Japan. Morphological characteristics of each sex of this population were studied between 1985 and 1992. The 1985 fishes were larger in standard length than even anadromous populations, as well as all other freshwater populations, so the large body size of this population was unusual for the species. The population was also characterized by large ratios of head length, eye diameter, and gill raker length, and a higher ovary volume in 1992 than in 1985, but it was not readily characterized by meristic characters. The population may have been introduced within the last 20 years ( probably in the early 1980s). The large body size of the population may not reflect a defense against predators because coexisting fishes were not important predators on threespine stickleback adults. It is supposed that the change of body size was induced by environmental changes in prey abundance in the lake and/or by the longevity of fishes.
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