Fishes of the WorldJohn Wiley & Sons, 25. 4. 2016 - 752 strán (strany) Take your knowledge of fishes to the next level Fishes of the World, Fifth Edition is the only modern, phylogenetically based classification of the world’s fishes. The updated text offers new phylogenetic diagrams that clarify the relationships among fish groups, as well as cutting-edge global knowledge that brings this classic reference up to date. With this resource, you can classify orders, families, and genera of fishes, understand the connections among fish groups, organize fishes in their evolutionary context, and imagine new areas of research. To further assist your work, this text provides representative drawings, many of them new, for most families of fishes, allowing you to make visual connections to the information as you read. It also contains many references to the classical as well as the most up-to-date literature on fish relationships, based on both morphology and molecular biology. The study of fishes is one that certainly requires dedication—and access to reliable, accurate information. With more than 30,000 known species of sharks, rays, and bony fishes, both lobe-finned and ray-finned, you will need to master your area of study with the assistance of the best reference materials available. This text will help you bring your knowledge of fishes to the next level.
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... Africa, and southeastern Europe, especially near Turkey, as well as in Southeast Asia. Importance to People Fishes, like many other forms of life, are of immense value to humans. They have long been a staple item in the diet of many ...
... Africa, southeastern Asia, and the Amazon River—by far the world's largest river. For a tropical region, Central America has relatively few freshwater species because of the physiography and geological history of the area. Most oceanic ...
... Africa and Queensland appear to have the largest number of families of marine shorefishes. The West Indian or Caribbean fauna (southern Florida to northern Brazil) is also a rich one. The western African fauna, however, is relatively ...
... Africa and South America. Plate tectonics had a profound effect on the distribution of many freshwater and marine fishes (e.g., it could well explain the occurrence of characiforms in South America and Africa), but not all disjunct ...
... Africa was described by Maisey and Anderson (2001). The South African form is much older than †Pucapampella and appears to be even older than †Doliodus (see above). The following chondrichthyan taxa have often been treated as stem ...