Marine fishes represent astonishing diversity with respect to practically every aspect of their biology. Reproductive modes and sexual patterns are especially fascinating and provide deep insight into general evolutionary problems. In this volume, chapters focus on reproduction and sexuality among groups of fishes defined by habitat, taxon, and the reproductive processes that are critical for reproductive success. The book illustrates how knowledge of reproductive biology among marine fishes can...
Environmental biology of European cyprinids (Developments in Environmental Biology of Fishes, #13)
Members of the family Cyprinidae dominate most of the aquatic habitats of Europe, from eutrophic warm water ponds to mountain lakes. The family comprises generalists and specialists, herbivorous, planktovorous and even one piscivorous species; slow-moving grazers as well as fast-swimming inhabitants of the pelagial of lakes. Due to their diversity and abundance, cyprinids play key roles in every ecosystem in which they occur. Being of little economic importance, however, the family has for the m...
An award-winning journalist, aquatic ecologist, and lifelong fisherman tells for the first time the surprising story of the rainbow trout, a revered icon for some and an all-too-common vexation for others Anders Halverson provides an exhaustively researched and grippingly rendered account of the rainbow trout and why it has become the most commonly stocked and controversial freshwater fish in the United States. Discovered in the remote waters of northern California, rainbow trout have been artif...
Originally published by the Bombay Natural History Society, this pioneering study describes 140 species of Indian reptile in terms of identification, habitat, distribution, unique characteristics, breeding, and other features, illustrated by 41 full-colour and 13 black-and-white plates. The work draws heavily on the observations of the Society's members in the pages of its journal over the last century, supplemented by the author's own observations and other literature on the subject. The reptil...
Mammals, Amphibians and Reptiles of Hertfordshire (Natural history of Hertfordshire)
by Michael Clark
Aqualog Special - Loricaridae "The Most Beautiful L-numbers"
by U. Glaser
Governability of Fisheries and Aquaculture
This title identifies over 110 different species of marine life which thrive in the warm Caribbean seas of Belize. Each species is identified by their English and Latin Names.
Coastal Fishes of New Zealand provides a comprehensive, informative and up-to-date identification guide to the fishes likely to be encountered by New Zealand divers and fishers. Illustrated with over 275 superb colour photographs of live fish in their natural habitats, this book includes all of New Zealand's common reef fishes, and also many of those that live in other habitats. Using the latest research, marine scientist Malcolm Francis also provides a wealth of other information about identify...
A Checklist of North American Amphibians and Reptiles
by M J Fouquette Jr and Alain DuBois
Cryopreservation of Fish Gametes
Understanding the reproductive physiology and endocrinology of fishes is essential for captive maturation and seed production in the field of aquaculture. Studying the spermatology of fishes is a comparatively new focus in aquaculture, which has emerged as an important area of fish research over the past two decades. In this regard, the cryopreservation of fish gametes is a crucial aspect. Moreover, energetics studies of gametes have become essential, considering the loss of vigour in the sperma...
Catalogue of the Marsupialia and Monotremata in the Collection of the British Museum (Natural History)
Common Snakes of India, Burma and How to Recognise
by William Henry Cazaly