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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... gill slits, dorsal hollow nerve cord, notochord, and a muscular, unsegmented tail; the adults are usually sessile filter feeders and usually lack the preceding features. Feeding is by means of a mucous trap (i.e., endostyle) inside the ...
... gill slits (at least in embryo), postanal tail, hepatic portal system, and endostyle (homologous with the thyroid). Order AMPHIOXIFORMES (lancelets) The lancelets (or amphioxus) are small (up to 8 cm long), slender, fishlike animals ...
... gills covered with endoderm and directed internally; gill arch skeleton fused with neurocranium, external to gill lamellae; gills opening to surface through pores or a single pore rather than through slits; bony exoskeleton present in ...
... gill openings; adenohypophysis with undifferentiated cellular elements, not divided into distinct regions (unlike in vertebrates); hypoglossal nerve absent (represented by separate, segmentally arranged, anterior spinal nerves); body ...
... opening into pharynx; no spiral valve or cilia in intestinal tract; numerous mucous pores along body (shown in sketch); ... gill openings. One genus (Fernhom and Quattrini 2008; Fernholm et al., 2013), Eptatretus (synonyms Bdellostoma and ...