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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... extinct groups of fishes. The work was widely recognized as the definitive source of information on fish classification, and a “must have” reference in the library of any person seriously involved in work with this group of animals. The ...
... concerning phylogenetic relationships, such as the hypotheses that extinct placoderms may be paraphyletic, that the Holostei are again monophyletic, that elopomorphs rather than osteoglossomorphs are the basal lineage 1 Introduction.
... extinction in the Western North Atlantic). Today fishes form an important element in the economy of many nations while giving incalculable recreational and psychological value to the naturalist, sports enthusiast, and home aquarist ...
... extinct taxa known by fossils that are more closely related to this particular crown group than they are to any other extant clade. The Total Group is the sum of the stem group and the crown group. Using a real example, the ...
... extinction of native fishes has been directly linked to the human intervention. One recent and familiar example is the inadvertent introduction of the Round Goby (Neogobius melanostomus) native to central Eurasia, into the Great Lakes ...