• DOI:10.1007/s00300-004-0667-4
Corpus ID: 1653548

The nature of the diversity of Antarctic fishes

@article{Eastman2004TheNO,
  title={The nature of the diversity of Antarctic fishes},
  author={J. Eastman},
  journal={Polar Biology},
  year={2004},
  volume={28},
  pages={93-107}
}

• J. Eastman
• Published 2004
• Biology
• Polar Biology

The species diversity of the Antarctic fish fauna changed notably during the ≈40 million years from the Eocene to the present. A taxonomically restricted and endemic modern fauna succeeded a taxonomically diverse and cosmopolitan Eocene fauna. Although the Southern Ocean is 10% of the world’s ocean, its current fish fauna consists of only 322 species, small considering the global diversity of ≈25,000–28,000 species. The fauna is “reasonably well-known” from a taxonomic perspective. This… Expand