| Explorations in the Life of Fishes Reprint 2014 Edition Contributor(s): Marshall, N. B. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0674865111 ISBN-13: 9780674865112 Publisher: Harvard University Press OUR PRICE: $61.75 Product Type: Hardcover Published: February 1971 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Nature | Animals - Fish - Science | Life Sciences - Biology - Science | Life Sciences - Zoology - General |
| Dewey: 597.5 |
| Series: Harvard Books in Biology |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.07 lbs) 204 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Exploring what he considers to be the outstanding aspects of fish biology, Mr. Marshall surveys the present knowledge in the field and suggests possibilities for future investigation.
He considers the causes of the overwhelming predominance of the teleost fishes, discusses the biology of deep-sea fishes, and studies such aspects of dynamic design as body form, fin pattern, muscular organization, and certain neural features in relation to movement and water.
His last chapter, on convergent evolution, deals with convergences among fishes as well as with convergences among fishes and invertebrates, particularly crustaceans and cephalopods.
The volume is illustrated with a chart on evolutionary relationships of fishes and over fifty line drawings. |
