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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... body naked, eel-like; no paired fins; no trace of lateral-line system in adults, neuromasts absent. Hagfishes are unique among craniates in having only one semicircular canal, which is orientated so that it projects onto all three ...
... body fluids are isosmotic with seawater. The mucous pores occur in two ventrolateral lines, each with about 70–200 slime glands that contain mucous cells and thread cells. The thread from the discharged thread cell of hagfishes probably ...
... body fossils are known. Most thelodonts have a depressed body form, with horizontal mouth, asymmetrical tails, one dorsal fin and paired pectoral fin flaps, but species of †Furcacaudiformes are compressed, have near circular mouths, and ...
... Body compressed, eyes lateral and large, branchial openings in an oblique row; stomach present (barrel-shaped); dorsal and ventrolateral fin flaps present in some; caudal fin with large dorsal and ventral lobes and scale-covered ...
... body triangular in cross section and flattened ventrally; scales of body ornamented and dorsoventrally elongated; anal fin absent; pectoral fins, probably homologous to gnathostome pectoral fins, known in most (e.g., the basal ...