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Author Cavin, L. (Lionel), author.

Title Freshwater Fishes : 250 million years of evolutionary history / Lionel Cavin.

Publication Info. London : ISTE Press/Elsevier, 2017.

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Series Vertebrate palaeobiology and palaeoenvironments set
Vertebrate palaeobiology and palaeoenvironments set.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 12, 2017).
Summary With more than 15,000 species, nearly a quarter of the total number of vertebrate species on Earth, freshwater fishes are extremely varied. They include the largest fish species, the beluga at over 7 meters long, and the smallest, the Paedocypris at just 8 millimeters, as well as the carnivorous, such as the piranha, and the calm, such as the Chinese algae eater. Certain species evolve rapidly, cichlids for example, while others transform very slowly, like lungfish. The fossils of these animals are very diverse in nature, sometimes just small scattered bones where sites correspond to ancient river beds or magnificent fossils of entire fish where there was once a lake. This book covers the history of these fishes over the last 250 million years by exploring the links between their biological evolution and the paleogeographic and environmental transformations of our planet, whether these be gradual or sudden.
Contents Front Cover -- Freshwater Fishes: 250 Million Years of Evolutionary History -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Freshwater Environments and Fishes -- 1.1. Environments of freshwater ichthyofauna -- 1.2. What is a freshwater fish? -- Chapter 2. Assemblages of Freshwater Fishes in the Mesozoic -- 2.1. Triassic -- 2.2. Jurassic -- 2.3. Cretaceous -- Chapter 3. Assemblages of Freshwater Fishes in the Cenozoic -- 3.1. Paleogene -- 3.2. Neogene -- Chapter 4. Evolutionary Histories of Freshwater Fishes -- 4.1. Coelacanths (Actinistia) -- 4.2. Lungfish (Dipnoi) -- 4.3. Polypterids (Cladistia) -- 4.4. Coccolepidids -- 4.5. Sturgeons and related fishes (Acipenseriformes) -- 4.6. "Paleopterygians" and "sub-holosteans" -- 4.7. Redfieldiiforms (Redfieldiiformes) -- 4.8. Scanilepiforms (Scanilepiformes) -- 4.9. Perleidiforms (Perleidiformes) -- 4.10. Holosteans (Holostei) -- 4.11. Basal teleosteomorphs (Teleosteomorpha) and incertae sedis -- 4.12. Ichthyodectiforms (Ichthyodectiformes) -- 4.13. Elopomorphs (Elopomorpha) -- 4.14. Osteoglossomorphs (Osteoglossomorpha) -- 4.15. Otomorphs (Otomorpha) -- 4.16. Euteleosteans (Euteleosteomorpha) -- Chapter 5. Evolutionary Patterns in Freshwater Fishes -- 5.1. Vicariances and dispersals -- 5.2. Evolutionary radiations -- 5.3. Lineage depletion, evolutionary stases and refuge zones -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index: Topics, Families and Genera -- Back Cover.
Subject Freshwater fishes -- Evolution.
Fishes -- Evolution.
Poissons d'eau douce -- Évolution.
NATURE -- Animals -- Fish.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- Ichthyology & Herpetology.
Fishes -- Evolution
Freshwater fishes -- Evolution
Other Form: Print version: Cavin, L. (Lionel). Freshwater Fishes. London : ISTE Press/Elsevier, 2017 178548138X 9781785481383 (OCoLC)960279297
ISBN 9780081011416 (electronic bk.)
0081011415 (electronic bk.)
9781785481383
178548138X
Standard No. 40027269731
AU@ 000061156797
CHBIS 011069478
CHVBK 499783417
GBVCP 892971045
AU@ 000074362782

 
    
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