Parental care in the climbing perch (Anabas testudineus): confusion or lost data?
Abstract
Anabantoid fishes form a unique group, most of which are characterized by diverse forms of parental care. Reconstruction of the reproductive strategies evolution in anabantoids remains a challenge. This is partly due to the lack of reliable evidence of parental care in a number of its representatives, the most famous of which is the climbing perch. Moreover, apparent contradictions between literary sources frequently occur on the subject. This brief overview attempts to analyze the situation and identify the likely causes of disagreement. The further development of understanding of the life strategies phylogeny in the group, as well as concept of evolutionary transitions among parental care modes in fishes in general, depend on clarification of this situation.
About the Author
D. D. Zworykin
Laboratory of Lower Vertebrates Behaviour, A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution
Russian Federation
Leninsky pr. 33, Moscow, 119071
Russian Federation
Leninsky pr. 33, Moscow, 119071
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Zworykin D.D. Parental care in the climbing perch (Anabas testudineus): confusion or lost data? Vestnik Moskovskogo universiteta. Seriya 16. Biologiya. 2020;75(4):280-284. (In Russ.)
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