Freshwater fish distribution

• Main Author: Berra, Tim M., 1943-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2007.
• Subjects: Freshwater fishes.; Freshwater fishes > Classification.; Fishes > Geographical distribution.; SCIENCE > Zoology > Ichthyology & Herpetology. > Life Sciences; NATURE > Fish. > Animals; Electronic books.
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With more than 29,000 species, fishes are the most diverse group of vertebrates on the planet. Of that number, more than 12,000 species are found in freshwater ecosystems, which occupy less than 1 percent of the Earth?s surface and contain only 2.4 percent of plant and animal species. But, on a hect...

Table of Contents:

• Preface to the Paperback Edition; Preface to the 2001 Edition; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Pronounciation of Family Names; Families and Maps; Agnatha-Jawless Fishes; Petromyzontidae-Iampreys; Geotridae-pouched lamprey; Mordaciidae-Southern Hemisphere lampreys; Gnathostomata-Jawed Fishes; Chondrichthyes-Cartilaginous Fishes; Carcharhinidae-requiem sharks; Potamotrygonidae-river stingrays; Dasyatidae-whiptail stingrays; Sarcopterygii-Lungfishes; Ceratodontidae-Australian lungfish; Lepidosirenidae-South American lungfish; Protopteridae-African lungfishes