Marine Insects | 台北市立動物園資訊網

由LCheng著作·1976·被引用208次—Manymarineinsectshavebecomewingless(e.g.sea-skaters)orhavereducedwings(e.g.chironomids).Othershavefullydevelopedwingsbutareflightlessor​ ...

Insects now comprise over 75% of all described animal species and exhibit not only a rich variety of form, color and shape, but also a range of ecological adaptations unexcelled by any other group. Nevertheless, they have generally failed to establish themselves in the world’s seas and oceans. Some speculations as to why insects are so rare in marine habitats have been based on a single postulated obstacle, such as the low concentrations of calcium in seawater. Others have been based on a complex combination of biological, physical and chemical factors. How such factors may have operated to exclude most of an otherwise highly successful group of animals from the most extensive biotope on earth is still not understood.

Actually, some insects are associated with the sea. Even on the open ocean, thousands of kilometres from land, we can find Halobates, which, however, spends all its life on the sea surface. As far as we know, no marine insects remain submerged throughout their li...