Cyprinid Fishes Systematics, biology and exploitation
Among the fishes. a remarkably wide range ofbiological adaptations to diverse habitats has evolved. As weIl as living in the conventional habitats of lakes. ponds. rivers. rock pools and the open sea. fish have solved the problems of life in deserts. in t
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Cyprinid Fishes Systematics, biology and exploitation Edited by
lan J. Winfield Institute of Freshwater Ecology Windermere Laboratory Ambleside Cumbria
UK
and
Joseph S. Nelson Department of Zoology University of Alberta Edmonton Alberta Canada
SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V.
First edtition 1991
© 1991 lan j. Winfield and joseph S. Nelson Originally pubIished by CHAPMAN AND HALL 1991 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1991 Typeset in 10/12 Photina by Thomson Press (India) Ltd. New Delhi by St. Edmundsbury Press. Bury St Edmunds. Suffolk
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Cyprinid Fishes: Systematics. biology and exploitation 1. Cyprinoidci 1. Winfield. lan j. II. Nelson. joseph S. (Joseph Schieser). 1937597.52 ISBN 978-94-010-5369-3 ISBN 978-94-011-3092-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-011-3092-9
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Cyprinid fishes: systematics. biology. and exploitation/editied by lan J. Winfield and joseph S. Nclson. p. cm.-(Fish and fisheries series: 3) lncludes bibliographical references and index. 1. Cyprinidae. 2. Fisheries. 1. Winfield. lan J.. 1959II. Nelson. joseph S.. 1937- . III. Series. QL638.C94C96 1991 'J()-lOHO 59/'.52-dc20 CIP
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Contents
Contributors Series forword T. J. Pitcher Prefaee I. J. Winfield and J. S. Nelson
1 Systematics and biogeography: an overview G.
J. Howes
1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5
Introduetion Hybrids and eyprinid taxonomy Classifieation and systematics of the Cyprinidae Phylogenetic relationships of the subfamilies Biogeography Aeknowledgements Referenees
2 The fossil reeord of the Cyprinidae T. M. Cavender
2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4
Introduetion The eyprinid fossil reeord by geographie area Diseussion Summary and conclusions Aeknowledgements Referenees
3 Morphometrie investigations in eyprinid biology S. A. Schaefer
3.1 In trod uetion 3.2 Overview of morphometrics 3.3 Analyses and applieations
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