1990/01/01 by Karl Banse · 1 citation
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Environmental Science · #Marine Invertebrate Physiology and Ecology #Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics #Marine and environmental studies #Biology #Jellyfish #Predation #Extinction (optical mineralogy) #Zoology #Ecology #Mariculture #Fishery #Fish <Actinopterygii> #Paleontology #Aquaculture
paper · doi:10.4319/lo.1990.35.1.0148
openalex publication_date 1990/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/12
Siren L. (Nixi subordo nova, Sirenia, Illiger) is redescribed on the basis of hitherto overlooked observations. Three species, essentially restricted to the sublittoral of warm seas, are recognized. Records from higher latitudes are explained as those of wampum-collecting individuals. Biological and ethological data are reviewed and new inferences made about mariculture. The extinction of the group during this century is hypothesized to have been caused by the increase of jellyfish due to reduction of planktivorous visual predators by humans.