Evolution of novel jaw joints promote trophic diversity in coral reef fishes

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Do wood‐grazing fishes partition their niche?: morphological and isotopic evidence for trophic segregation in Neotropical Loricariidae (2011, background): “Fishes that scrape surfaces using numerous small, weak and elongate teeth aligned in transverse rows are abundant on coral reefs (Depczynski & Bellwood 2003) and include various taxa in the diverse families Acanthuridae, Blenniidae and Pomacanthidae (Motta 1988; Konow et al. 2008).”
Nutritional ecology of marine herbivorous fishes: ten years on (2009, background): “…revealed an evolutionary wealth of feeding mechanisms in these fishes, for example, secondary lower jaw (intramandibular) joints that reduce the functional trade-off between bite force and the amount of substrate that can be covered during each bite have evolved at least five times (Konow et al .”