Klaus
--- Bruce Stallsmith <fundulus_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
> Today's talk about olivaceus vs. notatus, etc., made
> me go back and look for
> important source information on this and related
> topics. Various of the
> Fundulus species are to our eye very similar at
> first glance, and it takes a
> closer look to realize that very real species exist
> in nature separated by
> various mechanisms. Jamie Thomerson did much of the
> early work with various
> Fundulus species both to describe them physically,
> and to try and explain
> their differences. The following two references are
> good examples of such
> work. The second one should be in most decent
> university libraries, while
> the Tulane Studies paper is harder to find:
>
> Thomerson, J.E. 1969. Variation and relationships of
> the studfishes,
> Fundulus catenatus and Fundulus stellifer
> (Cyprinodontidae, Pisces). Tulane
> Studies in Zoology and Botany 16:1-21.
>
> Thomerson, J.E.; Wooldridge, D.P. 1970. Food habits
> of allotropic and
> syntopic populations of the topminnows Fundulus
> olivaceus and Fundulus
> notatus. American Midland Naturalist 84:573-576.
>
>
> --Bruce Stallsmith
> Huntsville, AL, US of A
> (p.s.: allotropic means physically separated
> populations, and syntopic means
> populations with an overlapping range...)
>
>
>
>
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