Fishes of the WorldJohn Wiley & Sons, 25. apr. 2016 - 752 strani 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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... body. Order SALPIDA (Hemimyaria) Marine, all oceans. Cylindrical or prism-shaped. Class APPENDICULARIA (Larvacea) Pelagic, marine, all oceans from Arctic to Antarctic. Larval characteristics (such as tail) retained in adult. SUBPHYLUM.
... body and well-differentiated retina and lies beneath unpigmented skin (presumably the more primitive state), whereas the deepwater Myxine glutinosa lacks a vitreous body, has a poorly differentiated retina, and is buried beneath muscle ...
... body can often be reconstructed with confidence, but it can be challenging to allocate them to the correct higher taxonomic groups. †Anatolepis heintzi known from the Late Cambrian to Early Ordovician in Spitsbergen and Greenland, was ...
... body usually covered with dorsoventrally elongated ornamented scales (which are virtually absent in †Lasanius); body fusiform and somewhat compressed; mouth terminal; complex dermal head armor present in some; bone cells absent. Maximum ...
... body fossils are known. Most thelodonts have a depressed body form, with horizontal mouth, asymmetrical tails, one dorsal fin and paired pectoral fin flaps, but species of †Furcacaudiformes are compressed, have near circular mouths, and ...