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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... freshwater fishes, whereas only about 43% of all fishes are predominantly freshwater species. Freshwater habitats comprise only a small proportion of the earth's surface water, but contain a disproportionately large number of the ...
... fresh water. Classification of some species as marine, diadromous, estuarine, or freshwater is impossible, except as a generalization. Just as in an otherwise marine family there may be one species confined to fresh water, so in some ...
... freshwater species because of the physiography and geological history of the area. Most oceanic islands lack indigenous fishes confined to fresh water, and continental areas recently exposed from the last ice age— for example, northern ...
... fresh water, whereas the parasitic form may be freshwater or anadromous. No parasitic freshwater lampreys are known from the Southern Hemisphere. Maximum length of larvae about 22 cm and parasitic adult about 1.2 m. The sister group of ...
... fresh water, and 18 feed parasitically as adults. †Family MAYOMYZONTIDAE. Pennsylvanian. Teeth absent. The only ... freshwater; cool zones of the Northern Hemisphere, generally north of 30∘N. Three or four lateral circumoral teeth on ...