Book chapter
African–South American Freshwater Fish Clades and Continental Drift: Problems with a Paradigm
Biological Relationships between Africa and South America
Yale University Press
24 Nov 1993
Abstract
Not long ago, discussions of biotic relationships between Africa and South America were dominated by the issue of biological evidence for or against continental drift (e.g., Mayr et al. 1952; Darlington 1965). Modem freshwater fishes were leading subjects in those discussions. Based on modem fish distributions, Regan (1922) had insisted on a union of southern continents years before plate tectonics revolutionized earth science. Indeed, the apparent close phylogenetic relations within certain Recent groups of African–South American freshwater fishes has been noted in the scientific literature for over a century: Günther (1880), Eigenmann (1909, 1910), Myers (1938, 1967), Gosline (1944,
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- Title
- African–South American Freshwater Fish Clades and Continental Drift
- Creators
- John G. Lundberg
- Contributors
- Peter Goldblatt (Editor)
- Publication Details
- Biological Relationships between Africa and South America
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University; Biodiversity, Earth, and Environmental Science (BEES)
- Identifiers
- 991019335592104721