Origin of Freshwater Fishes
The variety of freshwater fishes is striking, for they show radiations into different habitats with some of the most extraordinary […]
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Fisheries
Freshwater Fishes: Diversity
Diversity of Freshwater Fishes Despite representing only a miniscule (0.0093% according to Horn, 1972) part of the world’s aquatic habitat,
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Marine Fishes: The Open Ocean
Epipelagic Fishes The open ocean beyond the continental shelf covers nearly two-thirds of the surface of the Earth, and some
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Introduction to Coecalanth
The living Latimeria chalumnae was first identified off Southern Africa in 1938, and was known from some 200 further specimens
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Introduction to Holostei & Teleostei
Holostei Even fewer holosteans than chondrosteans survive today. The bowfin (Amia) of rivers in eastern North America, and seven species
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Marine Fishes: Coastal Region and Shallow Seas
Warm-water Fishes By far the greatest number (80%) of the 10 000 or so species of fishes in shallow seas
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Biogeography of Fishes
Introduction Fishes live in virtually every watery habitat found on earth. The world’s deepest living fish (Abyssobrotula galatheae) was found
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Introduction to Chondrostei
The surviving 25 species of chondrostean fishes are divided between the bichirs and reedfishes (18 extant species of the genera
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Introduction to Lungfish
Six species of lungfish in three genera survive today from a group that appeared in the Devonian and was widespread
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Distribution of Lampreys
Lampreys share with gnathostomes a more advanced kidney than hagfish, a pho-tosensitive pineal, a lateral line, radial muscles in the
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