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REVIEWS IN FISH BIOLOGY AND FISHERIES
Volume 24, Issue 1, Pages 1-14Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11160-013-9316-8
Keywords
Amphidromous species; Sicydiine species; Landlocked form; Fluvial form; Oceanic dependency
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- Japan Science Society
- Fujiwara Natural History Foundation
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [18780143]
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology, Japan [19208019, 23580246]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [11J03315, 23580246, 18780143] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Amphidromy is a distinctive form of diadromy, but differences in the life histories of tropical and temperate amphidromous fishes suggest that there are two types of freshwater amphidromy. The life histories of Sicydiinae gobies, ayu (Plecoglossus altivelis), Japanese sculpins (Cottus) and galaxiids (Galaxiidae), suggest that the Sicydiinae are representatives of tropical freshwater amphidromy, whereas ayu, sculpins and galaxiids are representatives of temperate freshwater amphidromy. The Sicydiine larval stage may be required to occur in the ocean for all species, but ayu, sculpins and galaxiids have landlocked or fluvial forms with larvae that do not need to enter the ocean for larval feeding and growth. This suggests that Sicydiine larvae have a high oceanic dependency whereas ayu, sculpins and galaxiid larvae have a low oceanic dependency. Freshwater amphidromous fish in tropical and temperate zones appear to have developed two different strategies in the evolution of their life histories. It is likely that the evolutionary direction of the larval stage of tropical amphidromy is to remain in the sea and that of temperate amphidromy is towards having the ability to remain in freshwater if needed. Tropical and temperate amphidromy appear to be biologically informative categories and evaluations of this hypothesis will facilitate better understanding of the various forms of amphidromy in the future.
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