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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... posterior to branchial aperture; 5 to 7 pairs of gill pouches. Atlantic and Pacific; about 22 species. Wisner and McMillan (1995) and Fernholm (1998) recognized 19 species. Myxine limnosa is not recognized here for reasons given in ...
... posterior lobe of the single dorsal fin in adults (Gill et al., 2003). The following recognition of subfamilies is based on the cladogram of Gill et al. (2003). The subgenera recognized in Lampetraby Nelson (1994), with the exception of ...
... posterior half of second dorsal fin; 76 metacentric and submetacentric chromosomes; ammocoetes with single intestinal diverticulum in which the internal walls are folded (Gill et al., 2003). Parasitic and nonparasitic. One genus ...
... posteriorly placed with first gill pouch well behind eye (as in lampreys); eyes large and lateral; tail hypocercal with large epichordal lobe (perhaps in part or entirely corresponding to the posterior dorsal fin); anterior dorsal fin ...
... posteriorly; 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 ...