Fishes : an introduction to ichthyology /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Upper Saddle River, NJ :
Prentice Hall,
c1996
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| Edition: | 3rd |
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Table of Contents:
- Part I, Introduction
- Part II, Structure and form [Form and movement, Respriration, Blood and its circulation, Buoyancy and thermal regulation, Hydromineral balance, Feeding, nutrition, digestion, and excetion, Growth, Reproduction, Sensory perception, Behavior and Communication]
- Part III, The fishes [Systematics, Evolution, Hagfishes and lampreys, Sharks, rays and chimaeras, Relict bony fishes, Teleost offshoots: bonytongues, herrings, and eels, Minnows, characins, and catfishes, Pike, smelt, and salmon, Anglerfish, barracudinas, cods, and dragonfish, Silversides, flying fish, and killifish, Opahs, squirrelfish, dories, pipefish, and sculpins, Perciformes: snooks to snakeheads, Flounders, pufflers, and molas]
- Part IV, Zoogeography [Zoogeography of freshwater fishes, Zoogeography of marine fishes]
- Part V, Ecology [Introduction to ecology, Temperate streams, Temperate lakes and reservoirs, Tropical freshwater lakes and streams, Estuaries, Coastal habitats, Tropical reefs, Epipelagic zone, Deepsea habitats, Polar regions, Concervation]