450 Pages
280 B/W Illustrations
by
Taylor & Francis
450 Pages
280 B/W Illustrations
by
Taylor & Francis
450 Pages
by
Taylor & Francis
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The Third Edition of Biology of Fishes is chiefly about fish as remarkably efficient machines for coping with the many problems that life in water entails, and looks at many such special cases. Fishes form the largest group of vertebrates, with around 20,000 known species, and they display a remarkable diversity of size, shape, internal structure and ecology to cope with environments... Read more
1. Diversity of Fishes
2. Fishes and their Habitats
3. Swimming
4. Buoyancy
5. Gas Exchange, Blood and the Circulatory System
6. Osmoregulation and Ion Balance
7. Food and Feeding
8. Reproduction and Life Histories
9. Endocrine Systems
10. Sensory Systems and Communication
11. Nervous System
12. Immune System
13. Behaviour and Cognition
14. Fisheries and Aquaculture
Biography
Professor Quentin Bone, FRS is an honorary Research Fellow at The Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom (MBA) and Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK.
Dr. Richard H Moore is Professor of Biology at Coastal Carolina University, USA.
