Edit the description's bibliography (Lizard Island Field Guide)

Edit the description's bibliography


Animalia: Reef Lizardfish (species: Synodus variegatus)

References that assist with identification

  • Allen, G., R. Steene, P. Humann and N. Deloach (2003). Reef fish identification: Tropical Pacific New World Publications Inc., Jacksonville, FL, USA.

Other references

  • Caley, M.J. (1991). Mechanisms of coexistence in communities of coral-reef fishes, Ph.D. thesis, University of Sydney. LIRS catalog number 307.
  • Caley, M.J. (1995). Reef fish community structure and dynamics: in interaction between local and larger-scale processes? Marine Ecology Progress Series, 129: 19-29. LIRS catalog number 448.
  • Heenan, A. (2010). The behaviour of settling coral reef fishes and supplementary management tools, Ph.D. thesis, University of Edinburgh. LIRS catalog number 1311.
  • Holmes, T.H. (2004). Selectivity of predation on a newly settled tropical reef fish, Pomacentrus ambionensis (Pomacentridae), Honours thesis, James Cook University. LIRS catalog number 903.
  • Holmes, T.H. and M.I. McCormick (2006). Location influences size-selective predation on newly settled reef fish, Marine Ecology Progress Series, 317: 203-209. LIRS catalog number 964.
  • Lassig, B.R. (1981). Significance of the epidermal ichthyotoxic secretion of coral-dwelling gobies, Toxicon, 19(6): 729-735. LIRS catalog number 685.
  • Lassig, B.R. (1983). The effects of a cyclonic storm on coral reef assemblages, Environmental Biology of Fishes, 9(1): 55-63. LIRS catalog number 253.
  • McCormick, M.I. and M.G. Meekan (2010). The importance of attitude: the influence of behaviour on survival at an ontogenetic boundary, Marine Ecology Progress Series, 407: 173-185. LIRS catalog number 1365.
  • McCormick, M.I. and B.A. Kerrigan (1996). Predation and its influence on the condition of a newly settled tropical demersal fish. Marine and Freshwater Research, 47: 557-562. LIRS catalog number 1670.
  • Smit, N.J., A.S. Grutter, R.D. Adlard and A.J. Davies (2006). Hematozoa of teleosts from Lizard Island, Australia, with some comments on their possible mode of transmission and the description of a new hemogregarine species, Journal of Parasitology, 92: 778-788. LIRS catalog number 991.
  • Stewart, B.D. (1998). Interactions between piscivorous coral reef fishes and their prey, Ph.D. thesis, James Cook University, Australia. LIRS catalog number 593.
  • Stewart, B.D. and J.S. Beukers (2000). Baited technique improves censuses of cryptic fish in complex habitats, Marine Ecology Progress Series, 197: 259-272. LIRS catalog number 667.
  • Stewart, B.D. and G.P. Jones (2001). Associations between the abundance of piscivorous fishes and their prey on coral reefs: implications for prey-fish mortality, Marine Biology, 138(2): 383-397. LIRS catalog number 670.
  • Sweatman, H.P.A. (1984). A field study of the predatory behavior and feeding rate of a piscivorous coral reef fish, the lizardfish Synodus englemani, Copeia, 1: 187-194. LIRS catalog number 174.
  • Sweatman, H.P.A. (1985). Habitat selection and the influence of resident humbug fishes, Dascyllus aruanus and D. reticulatus on recruitment, Ph.D. thesis, Macquarie University, Sydney. LIRS catalog number 249.