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Remarkable Shrimps: Adaptations and Natural History of the Carideans Volume 7

Remarkable Shrimps: Adaptations and Natural History of the Carideans Volume 7

Bauer, Raymond T.

Hardcover

Series: Animal Natural History, Book 7

BiologyMarine LifeZoology

ISBN10: 0806135557
ISBN13: 9780806135557
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: Apr 26 2004
Pages: 316
Weight: 1.74
Height: 0.90 Width: 7.24 Depth: 10.30
Language: English

In Remarkable Shrimps, Raymond T. Bauer explores the evolution, natural history, biological diversity, and commercial importance of caridean shrimps--a fascinating and colorful group of aquatic organisms that inhabit freshwater and marine environments from the tropics to the poles.

The biological diversity of carideans encompasses a remarkable array of adaptations in body form and function, coloration, breeding biology, and mating behavior. Carideans' important grooming and antifouling adaptations are examined in detail, and Bauer discusses the structural basis of their coloration, the role of color change in concealment, and other forms of camouflage. Reproductive biology and sexual systems, including hermaphroditism and sex change, are reviewed, and Bauer provides evidence for sex pheromones in the attraction of males to females. Seasonal, latitudinal, and depth variation in life history patterns are also analyzed.

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