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Fishes form the largest group of vertebrates, with around 20,000 known species.
They display a remarkable diversity of size, shape, internal structure, and
ecology to cope with environments ranging from transient puddles to the abyssal
depths of the sea.
This thoroughly updated and revised third edition of Biology of Fishes is
extensively illustrated with 294 figures. A new chapter twelve discusses the
innate and acquired immune system of fish and the effects of disease on
aquaculture and capture fisheries. New material focuses on the ingenious ways
in which fish have resolved the particular problems that come from living in water,
especially the acquisition of oxygen, feeding mechanisms, locomotion, and sensory
awareness.
Biology of Fishes has been written for undergraduate students of fish biology,
ichthyology, and any of the branches of aquatic biology.
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