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• F.H. Talbot, Foreword. The World of Fishes: K.F. Liem, Introducing Fishes. S.H. Weitzman, Classifying Fishes. L. Grande, Fishes Through the Ages. J.R. Paxton, Habitats and Adaptations. J.K. Parrish, Fish Behavior. P.C. Almada-Villela, Endangered Species. Kinds of Fishes: I.C. Potter, Jawless Fishes. J. Stevens and P.R. Last, Sharks, Rays, And Chimaeras. M.N. Bruton, Lungfishes and Coelacanth. E.O. Wiley, Bichirs and Their Allies. P.H. Greenwood, Bonytongues and Their Allies. J.E. Mccosker, Eels and Their Allies. G. Nelson, Sardines and Their Allies. K.E. Banister, Carps and Their Allies. S.H. Weitzman and R.P. Vari, Characins and Their Allies. C.J. Ferraris, Jr., Catfishes and Knifefishes. R.M. Mcdowall, Salmons and Their Allies. W.L. Fink, Dragonfishes and Their Allies. R.K. Johnson and W.N. Eschmeyer, Lizardfishes and Their Allies. P.A. Hulley, Lanternfishes. D.M. Cohen, Troutperches and Their Allies. D.M. Cohen, Codfishes and Their Allies. J.G. Nielsen, Cuskeels and Their Allies. J.B. Hutchins, Toadfishes. E. Bertelsen, Anglerfishes. J.C. Briggs, Clingfishes. B.B. Collette and N.V. Parin, Flyingfishes and Their Allies. L.R. Parenti, Killifishes and Ricefishes. G.R. Allen, Silversides and Their Allies. J.E. Olney, Oarfishes and Their Allies. J.R. Paxton, Squirrelfishes and Their Allies. C. Karrer and H.-C. John, Dories and Their Allies. J. Wilder Orr and T.W. Pietsch, Pipefishes and Their Allies. K.F. Liem, Swampeels. W.N. Eschmeyer, Scorpionfishes and Their Allies. G.D. Johnson and A.C. Gill, Perches and Their Allies. J.E. Randall, Groupers, Seabasses, And Their Allies. P.H. Greenwood, Cichlids. G.R. Allen, Damselfishes. J.H. Choat and D.R. Bellwood, Wrasses and Parrotfishes. V.G. Springer, Blennies. D.F. Hoese, Gobies. F. Chapleau and K. Amaoka, Flatfishes. K. Matsuura and J.C. Tyler, Triggerfishes and Their Allies. Index. Acknowledgments.
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Magnificently illustrated with more than 200 spectacular colour photographs and 150 original illustrations, diagrams, and maps, this indispensable encyclopedia reveals the fascinating world of fishes in an authoritative and stimulating way. The highly readable text, written by leading experts from around the world, incorporates the most recent scientific research and presents a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the complex, diverse, and often bizarre lives of fishes.
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A thoughtfully conceived, abundantly illustrated reference (produced by Weldon Owen Pty Limited, Australia), with general coverage of the "world of fishes" followed by 38 contributed chapters devoted to various kinds of fishes. Lavishly illustrated with color photos, paintings, and maps, in an over.
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• Introduction. Acknowledgments. Photo Credits. Fishing Encyclopedia Entries. Appendix: Conversion Charts for Weights and Measures.
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Ken Schultz's Fishing Encyclopedia The most comprehensive, up-to-date fishing encyclopedia in the world today Ken Schultz's Fishing Encyclopedia is the new standard for knowledge on fishing and everything related to it. With complete, insightful information for both freshwater and saltwater anglers at all levels of experience, it is the only authoritative, and up-to-date fishing encyclopedia available. More than 2,000 detailed entries and over 1,400 color illustrations and photos cover every aspect of fishing today, including fish species, equipment, places, techniques, and a wide array of other information. Ken Schultz, internationally known fishing expert and 26-year editor at Field & Stream, and his team of international experts have created the definitive fishing guide for the new millennium. Their combined expertise spans the world - from Montana to Mozambique - and is uniquely modern in scope, covering current conservation programs and issues as well as the most recent developments in technique and equipment. "Ken Schultz's Fishing Encyclopedia is the only complete book of fishing knowledge. With expert information from cover to cover, it dwarfs every fishing book on the market. This book is indispensable. " - Vin T. Sparano, Editor Emeritus/Senior Field Editor, Outdoor Life "A new resource for a new century, Ken Schultz's Fishing Encyclopedia is destined to become the last word in fishing information. " - Slaton White, Editor, Field & Stream.
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Examining the creatures that inhabit our seas, rivers, lakes and oceans, this encyclopedia takes a journey through the underwater world, uncovering the thousands of species that live and breed in the aquatic environment.

• v. 1. The senses, supporting tissues, reproduction, and behavior
• v. 2. Gas exchange, internal homeostatis, and food uptake
• v. 3. Energetics, interactions with the environment, lifestyles, and applications.

Fish form an extremely diverse group of vertebrates. At a conservative estimate at least 40 per cent of the world's vertebrates are fish. On the one hand they are united by their adaptations to an aquatic environment and on the other they show a variety of adaptations to differing environmental conditions - often to extremes of temperature, salinity, oxygen level and water chemistry. They exhibit an array of behavioural and reproductive systems. Interesting in their own right, this suite of adaptive physiologies provides many model systems for both comparative vertebrate and human physiologists. This four volume encyclopedia covers the diversity of fish physiology in over 300 articles and provides entry level information for students and summary overviews for researchers alike. Broadly organised into four themes, articles cover Functional, Thematic, and Phylogenetic Physiology, and Fish Genomics Functional articles address the traditional aspects of fish physiology that are common to all areas of vertebrate physiology including: Reproduction, Respiration, Neural (Sensory, Central, Effector), Endocrinology, Renal, Cardiovascular, Acid-base Balance, Osmoregulation, Ionoregulation, Digestion, Metabolism, Locomotion, and so on. Thematic Physiology articles are carefully selected and fewer in number. They provide a level of integration that goes beyond the coverage in the Functional Physiology topics and include discussions of Toxicology, Air-breathing, Migrations, Temperature, Endothermy, etc. Phylogenetic Physiology articles bring together information that bridges the physiology of certain groupings of fishes where the knowledge base has a sufficient depth and breadth and include articles on Ancient Fishes, Tunas, Sharks, etc. Genomics articles describe the underlying genetic component of fish physiology and high light their suitability and use as model organisms for the study of disease, stress and physiological adaptations and reactions to external conditions. It is the winner of a 2011 PROSE Award Honorable Mention for Multivolume Science Reference from the Association of American Publishers. It is the definitive encyclopedia for the field of fish physiology. Three volumes which comprehensively cover the entire field in over 300 entries written by experts. It includes detailed coverage of basic functional physiology of fishes, physiological themes in fish biology and comparative physiology amongst taxonomic Groups. It describes the genomic bases of fish physiology and biology and the use of fish as model organisms in human physiological research. It includes a glossary of terms. Available online in indexed searchable format.
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• List of figures
• Foreword J. S. Nelson
• Preface and acknowledgements
• Conventions used in the text
• Darwin and ichthyology
• Darwin's fishes: a dry run
• Entries (A to ZZZ)
• Appendix I. Fish in spirits of wine Jacqueline McGlade
• Appendix II. Fish of the Beagle in the BMNH
• Appendix III. Checklist of fish specimens, identified as collected by Charles Darwin on the Beagle voyage, that ought to be present in the collections of the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge Adrian Friday
• Bibliography
• Index to the fishes.
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In Darwin's Fishes, Daniel Pauly presents an encyclopaedia of ichthyology, ecology and evolution, based upon everything that Charles Darwin ever wrote about fish. Entries are arranged alphabetically and can be about, for example, a particular fish taxon, an anatomical part, a chemical substance, a scientist, a place, or an evolutionary or ecological concept. The reader can start wherever they like and are then led by a series of cross-references on a fascinating voyage of interconnected entries, each indirectly or directly connected with original writings from Darwin himself. Along the way, the reader is offered interpretation of the historical material put in the context of both Darwin's time and that of contemporary biology and ecology. This book is intended for anyone interested in fishes, the work of Charles Darwin, evolutionary biology and ecology, and natural history in general.
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• List of figures
• Foreword J. S. Nelson
• Preface and acknowledgements
• Conventions used in the text
• Darwin and ichthyology
• Darwin's fishes: a dry run
• Entries (A to ZZZ)
• Appendix I. Fish in spirits of wine Jacqueline McGlade
• Appendix II. Fish of the Beagle in the BMNH
• Appendix III. Checklist of fish specimens, identified as collected by Charles Darwin on the Beagle voyage, that ought to be present in the collections of the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge Adrian Friday
• Bibliography
• Index to the fishes.
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In Darwin's Fishes, Daniel Pauly presents an encyclopaedia of ichthyology, ecology and evolution, based upon everything that Charles Darwin ever wrote about fish. Entries are arranged alphabetically and can be about, for example, a particular fish taxon, an anatomical part, a chemical substance, a scientist, a place, or an evolutionary or ecological concept. The reader can start wherever they like and are then led by a series of cross-references on a fascinating voyage of interconnected entries, each indirectly or directly connected with original writings from Darwin himself. Along the way, the reader is offered interpretation of the historical material put in the context of both Darwin's time and that of contemporary biology and ecology. This book is intended for anyone interested in fishes, the work of Charles Darwin, evolutionary biology and ecology, and natural history in general.
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• List of figures
• Foreword J. S. Nelson
• Preface and acknowledgements
• Conventions used in the text
• Darwin and ichthyology
• Darwin's fishes: a dry run
• Entries (A to ZZZ)
• Appendix I. Fish in spirits of wine Jacqueline McGlade
• Appendix II. Fish of the Beagle in the BMNH
• Appendix III. Checklist of fish specimens, identified as collected by Charles Darwin on the Beagle voyage, that ought to be present in the collections of the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge Adrian Friday
• Bibliography
• Index to the fishes.
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In Darwin's Fishes, Daniel Pauly presents an encyclopaedia of ichthyology, ecology and evolution, based upon everything that Charles Darwin ever wrote about fish. Entries are arranged alphabetically and can be about, for example, a particular fish taxon, an anatomical part, a chemical substance, a scientist, a place, or an evolutionary or ecological concept. The reader can start wherever they like and are then led by a series of cross-references on a fascinating voyage of interconnected entries, each indirectly or directly connected with original writings from Darwin himself. Along the way, the reader is offered interpretation of the historical material put in the context of both Darwin's time and that of contemporary biology and ecology. This book is intended for anyone interested in fishes, the work of Charles Darwin, evolutionary biology and ecology, and natural history in general.
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