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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... ocean sleepers Family OXUDERCIDAE (= GOBIONELLIDAE) (281)—Gobionelluslike and mudskipper gobies Family GOBIIDAE (282)—gobies Subseries Ovalentaria Family AMBASSIDAE (Chandidae) (283)— Asiatic glassfishes Family EMBIOTOCIDAE (284) ...
... (534)—molas (ocean sunfishes) Family TETRAODONTIDAE (535)— puffers Family DIODONTIDAE (536)— porcupinefishes (burrfishes) Bibliography Index End User License Agreement Fishes of the World Fifth Edition Joseph S. Nelson Terry.
... Ocean, southern China Sea, and off the corners of Australia. Newly discovered freshwater fishes have been found most often in the Amazon Basin and the Parana Basin of South America, western Equatorial Africa, and southeastern Europe ...
... oceans throughout the world. In most species of fishes, all individuals live entirely either in fresh or in marine waters. Over 225 species are diadromous, regularly living part of their lives in lakes and rivers and part in the oceans ...
... ocean barriers as well as many ecological and physiological barriers; freshwater species are limited by marine and land barriers. Some species have remarkably large ranges, and it would be interesting to know why some of their relatives ...