Table of Contents

New Zealand’s Distinctive and Well-Known Freshwater Fish Fauna.- The Geographical Setting of New Zealand and Its Place in Global Geography.- New Zealand’s Geological and Climatic History and Its Biogeographical Context.- A Conceptual Basis for Biogeography.- Some Essentials of Freshwater Fish Biogeography, Fish Life Histories, and the Place of Diadromy.- Data Sources for the Present Study.- Phylogenetic Lineages in the Fauna and the Evolution of Diadromy: A Broad Perspective.- Galaxias and Gondwana.- Broad-Scale, Macroecological Patterns, Ranges and Community Species Richness in the Fauna.- Pattern and Process in the Distributions and Biogeography of New Zealand Freshwater Fishes: The Diadromous Species.- Pattern and Process in the Distributions of Non-diadromous Species – 1: The Galaxias vulgaris Species Complex.- Pattern and Process in the Distributions of Non-diadromous Species 2: The ‘Pencil-Galaxias’ Species Group.- Pattern and Process in the Distributions of Non-diadromous Species 3: The Dune Lakes Galaxias.- Distribution, History and Biogeography of the Neochanna Mudfishes.- Distribution and Biogeography of the Non-diadromous Gobiomorphus Bullies.- A Biogeographical Synthesis: 1. The Big Picture.- Biogeographical Synthesis: 2. More Local Issues and Patterns.- A Biogeographical Synthesis 3: Issues of Diadromy, Diversification and Dispersal.- Some General Biogeographical Patterns in the Fish Fauna.- A More Global Perspective and a Final Summation.