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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... fish classification. The Catalog of Fishes, the spectacular achievement of Bill Eschmeyer, was available online (www.calacademy.org) and included fishes in a classification. Nonetheless, Nelson (2006) had become firmly established as ...
... Fishes” was published, the field of ichthyology has seen an explosion of published research, molecular systematics ... Fishes communities, as well as advanced anatomical, biomechanical, physiological, and ecological studies of extant ...
... fish conversations, collaborations and friendship. Many thanks go also to John Maisey and Maria da Gloria P. de Carvalho for sharing their scientific expertise mixed with friendship, laughter and encouragement. To all of our Mesozoic Fishes ...
... fishes include a vast array of amazing adaptations to almost all aquatic environments on earth. Since the last edition of Fishes of the World (2006), a great many (thousands) of important studies on fish diversity, biology, morphology ...
... Fishes, Index to Organism Names, World Registry of Marine Species (WORMS), online academic libraries, journal publishers' web sites, the Paleobiology Database, and Fossilworks, all of which are available to almost any researcher, and ...