Fishes of the WorldJohn Wiley & Sons, 16. 3. 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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... North American marine and freshwater fishes. He immediately struck me as a friendly and softspoken person, and certainly not one to make a big deal of his already impressive professional accomplishments. This impression was one I never ...
... North America, Europe (especially western Europe), and Asia—tend to have a relatively sparse fish fauna. In tropical areas, Africa exhibits the greatest diversity of nonostariophysan freshwater fishes; South America exhibits ...
... North Pacific, North Atlantic, and Mediterranean-East Atlantic. Marine oceans share different similarities with one another; for example, for many families the tropical eastern Pacific shows a greater resemblance to the western Atlantic ...
... north) causes alarm. These carps are spreading widely in North American waterways, leading to habitat destruction and provoking sometimes unwise and expensive containment measures. Systematists have unique roles as experts on natural ...
... north of 30∘N. Three or four lateral circumoral teeth on each side of oral aperture (five or more in other lampreys); dorsal fins continuous or contiguous in mature adults (separate in other lampreys); small or no gular pouch in adult ...