Key References

Deep Sea Fishes

Blaxter, J. H. S., C. S. Wardle and B. L. Roberts. 1971. Aspects of the circulatory physiology and muscle systems of deep-sea fish. J. mar. biol. Assoc. U.K., 51:991-1006.

Clarke, T. A. 1978. Diel feeding patterns of 16 species of mesopelagic fishes from Hawaiian waters. Fish. Bull., 76(3):495-513.

Cocker, J. E. 1978. Adaptations of deep sea fishes. Env. Biol. Fish., 3(4):389-399.

Dalpadado, P. and J. Gjosaeter. 1987. Observations on mesopelagic fish from the Red Sea. Marine Biology, 96:173-183.

Douglas, E. L., W. A. Friedl, and G. V. Pickwell. 1976. Fishes in oxygen-minimum zones: blood oxygenation characteristics. Science, 191:957-959.

Foran, D. 1991. Evidence of luminous bacterial symbionts in the light organs of myctophid and stomiiform fishes. J. Exp. Zool., 259:1-8.

Herring, P. J. and J. G. Morin. 1978. Bioluminescence in fishes. Pp. 273-329. In: Bioluminescence in Action. Herring, P. J. ed. Academic Press, London.

Jumper, G. Y. and R.C. Baird. 1991. Location by olfaction: a model and application to the mating problem in the deepsea hatchetfish Argyropelecus hemigymnus. American Naturalist, 138:14311458.

Marshall, N. B. 1960. Swimbladder structure of deep-sea fishes in relation to their systematics and biology. Discovery Rept., 31:1-122.

Marshall, N. B. 1971. Exploration in the Life of Fishes. Harvard University Press, Cambridge.

McFall-Ngai, M., L. Ding, and J. Childress. 1988. Biochemical charactersitics of the pigmentation of mesopelagic fish lenses. Biological Bull. 175:397-402.

McFall-Ngai, M. and J. G. Morin. 1991. Camouflage by distruptive illumination in leiognathids, a family of shallow-water, bioluminescent fishes. J. Exp. Biol., 156:119-137.

Parsons, T. R. and R. J. Le Brasseur. 1970. The availability of food to different trophic levels in the marine food chain. In: Marine Food Chains. Steele, J. H., ed. University of California Press, Berkeley.

Priede, I. G., P. M. Bagley, and J. D. Armstrong. 1991. Direct measurement of active dispersal of food-falls by deep-sea demersal fishes. Nature, 351:647-649.