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Major patterns of visual brain organization in teleosts and their relation to prehistoric events and the paleontological record

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2016

Mario F. Wullimann
Mario F. Wullimann*
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University of Bremen, FB 2, Brain Research Institute, Post Office Box 33 04 40, D-28334 Bremen, Federal Republic of Germany. E-mail: wulliman.@uni-bremen
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Abstract

A cladistic analysis of the three recognized patterns of central nervous visual organization among teleosts reveals that there is a pattern of intermediate complexity representing the plesiomorphic condition for teleosts, and that there is a simple visual pattern in two unrelated teleost groups which can be concluded to be a secondarily reduced derived condition, as well as an elaborate pattern which is present only in acanthomorph teleosts, thus likely representing a synapomorphy for this taxon. The elaborate central nervous visual pattern, therefore, is one of many functional-anatomical advanced features characterizing the acanthomorphs. Furthermore, when neontological and paleontological data is compared with the paleoecological record of early acanthomorph history during the Late Cretaceous, it is consistent with a hypothesis that this acanthomorph synapomorphic functional-anatomical complex arose likely in ctenothrissiforms as an adaptation to the life in the reorganizing reefs of that geologic period.

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Paleobiology , Volume 23 , Issue 1 , Winter 1997 , pp. 101 - 114
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