A functional morphospace for the skull of labrid fishes: Patterns of diversity in a complex biomechanical system

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-25

  Wainwright, Peter C ^a   Bellwood, David R ^b   Westneat, Mark W ^c   Grubich, Justin R ^c   Hoey, Andrew S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Complexity; Disparity; Feeding; Four bar linkage; Labridae; Levers; Modularity; Pharyngeal jaw apparatus

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; FEEDING MECHANISM; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; PERCIFORM; SKULL;

ALGAE; LABRIDAE; ODACIDAE; PERCIFORMES; PISCES; SCARIDAE;

EID: 1842496232     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2004.00313.x     Document Type: Article

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