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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... Classification. Classification: LCC QL618.N4 2016 |DDC 597.01/2–dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015037522 Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Contents MEMORIES OF JOE NELSON xxix FOREWORD xxxiii ...
... Classification 4 Anatomical Terminology 7 Distribution and Biogeography 8 Human Impacts 11 PHYLUM CHORDATA 13 SUBPHYLUM UROCHORDATA (Tunicata: the tunicates) 15 Class ASCIDIACEA (ascidians), 15 Class THALIACEA (salps), 15 Order ...
... classification, and a “must have” reference in the library of any person seriously involved in work with this group of animals. The success of this book, coupled with ongoing changes in knowledge and understanding of fish classification ...
... classification of the world's living and fossil fishes. This publication had already propelled Joe, at the relatively young age of 39, to the forefront among world ichthyologists. Although I knew Joe only casually in those early days ...
... classification, seven years after Gareth Nelson's (1969) classification of vertebrates based on the cladistic principles of Hennig (1966), and just three years after the audacious Interrelationships of Fishes of Greenwood, Miles, and ...