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Evolutionary history of the parrotfishes: biogeography, ecomorphology, and comparative diversity.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 May 2002
Streelman J T, Alfaro M, Westneat M W, Bellwood D R, Karl S A
Abstract excerpt
The family Scaridae comprises about 90 species of herbivorous coral reef, rock reef, and seagrass fishes. Parrotfishes are important agents of marine bioerosion who rework the substrate with their beaklike oral jaws. Many scarid populations are characterized by complex social systems including highly differentiated sexual stages, territoriality, and the defense of harems. Here, we test a hypothesis of...
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