Cichlid Fishes of Lake Victoria, East Africa
Subtitle: The Biology and Evolution of a Species Flock
Series: Zoology
Publisher: Natural History Museum Publications
Published: 1974
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780565007614
Copyright date: 1974
Subjects: Cichlidae; Fishing, africa
First sentence: The fish fauna of Lake Victoria is dominated, both ecologically and in species numbers, by over a hundred endemic species of the cichlid genus Haplochromis.
Table of contents: label: Introduction
title: 3; label: Lake Victoria, its physiography and history
title: 7; label: The fishes of Lake Victoria
title: 11; label: The non-cichlid fishes
title: 11; label: The chchlid fishes
title: 13; label: The Haplochromis species flock
title: 19; label: Introduction
title: 19; label: Basic morphology
title: 21; label: Feeding habits of the Haplochromis species
title: 30; label: Intralacustrine distribution of the Haplochromis species
title: 44; label: Breeding biology of the Haplochromis species
title: 50; label: Interrelationships of the Lake Victoria Haplochromis species
title: 56; label: The insectivorous species
title: 58; label: Phytophagous species
title: 63; label: Species feeding in benthic Crustacea
title: 67; label: Scale eating species
title: 69; label: Mollusc eating species
title: 69; label: Predators on larval and embryo cichlid fishes
title: 75; label: Piscivorous predators
title: 80; label: Conclusion
title: 93; label: The relationships of monotypic genera
title: 99; label: The anatomical basis for the adaptive radiation
title: 103; label: Speciation
title: 111; label: Conclusion
title: 119; label: Acknowledgements
title: 124; label: References
title: 125; label: Index
title: 129