期刊
BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY
卷 100, 期 1, 页码 30-45出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2010.01417.x
关键词
convergence; Etheostoma; morphological diversity; oral jaw apparatus; Percina; premaxillary frenum
资金
- National Science Foundation (NSF) [DEB-0710394, IOB-0444554, IOS-0924489]
- Direct For Biological Sciences [0924489] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Integrative Organismal Systems [0924489] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Darters are a species-rich radiation of small benthic and benthic-associated stream fishes that comprise approximately 20% of the diversity of the North American freshwater fish fauna. Here, we gather data from 165, or 87%, of described species and use this information to characterize the morphological diversity of the darter radiation. We focus on characters of the oral jaws known to function in prey capture and consumption in other perciform taxa in order to explicitly link morphological diversity to ecological diversity. In addition to a quantitative description of the morphospace occupied by darters, we identify several instances of significant morphological convergence. We also describe three groups of darter species that exhibit unusual jaw morphologies that are used in previously undescribed prey capture behaviours. Despite these new ecomorphs, we find that darters exhibit relatively low variation in trophic morphology when compared with two other radiations of teleost fishes, and that the observed variation is related more to differences in microhabitat use than to differences in prey type. (C) 2010 The Linnean Society of London, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2010, 100, 30-45.
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