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  title info:
    title: Freshwater Fishes
    sub title: 250 million years of evolutionary history
  name:
    name part: Cavin, L. (Lionel)
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: ScienceDirect (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource : color illustrations
  abstract: 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.
  table of 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.
  note: Lionel Cavin.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Freshwater fishes
    topic: Evolution
  subject:
    topic: Fishes
    topic: Evolution
  subject:
    topic: Poissons d'eau douce
    topic: Évolution
  subject:
    topic: NATURE
    topic: Animals
    topic: Fish
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE
    topic: Life Sciences
    topic: Zoology
    topic: Ichthyology & Herpetology
  subject:
    topic: Fishes
    topic: Evolution
  subject:
    topic: Freshwater fishes
    topic: Evolution
  classification: QL618.2
  classification: 597.038
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    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 170605
    record change date: 20260327152034.1
    record identifier: in00005762036
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng