Catfishes
Editors:
Gloria Arratia: Museum für Naturkunde der, Humbolt Universitaet,
Berlin, Germany
B.G. Kapoor: Formerly Professor of Zoology, Gwalior University,
India
Michel Chardon and R. Diogo: Laboratory of Functional and Evolutionary
Morphology, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
ISBN 978-1-57808-261-2; 2003; 828 pages (2 vols.); US $ 159.00
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The
book is divided in two volumes containing information on fossil and modern
siluriform fishes. Volume 1 includes sixteen chapters on the anatomy,
function and functional morphology, and the phylogenetic relationships among
siluriforms and systematics of certain catfishes groups. Volume 2 includes
ten chapters on the fossil record and paleodistribution, ecology and
ethology, development and sensory biology. The book will be useful to
ichthyologists and students.
Contents:Volume I
Part I: Anatomy. Catfish Head Skeleton. An Overview-
G.
Arratia. Review of Superficial Cranial Musculature of
Catfishes, with Comments on Plesiomorphic States-
R. Diogo and
P.
Vandewalle. Weberian Apparatus in Catfish-
M. Chardon,
E. Parmentier and
P. Vandewalle. The Siluriform
Postcranial Skeleton. An Overview-
G. Arratia. Internal
Anatomy-
B.G. Kapoor, B. Khanna, R. Diogo, E. Parmentier and
M.
Chardon. The Skin of Catfishes: A Review-
G. Arratia
Part II: Function and Functional Morphology. Functional
Morphology of Catfishes: Movements of Barbels-
R. Diogo, M. Chardon
and
P. Vandewalle. Feeding Mechanisms-
D. Adriaens.
Sound Production, Spine Locking, and Related Adaptations-
M. Fine and
F. Ladich. Poisonous Catfishes. Venom Apparatus,
Acanthotoxins, Crinotoxins, and other Skin Secretions-
C. Perrière
and
F. Goudey-Perrière Part III: Phylogeny,
Systematics, and some Problematic Groups. State of the Art
of Recent Siluriform Systematics-
G.G. Teugels. Higher
Level Phylogeny of Siluriformes (Teleostei: Ostariophysi): An Overview-
R.
Diogo. Phylogeny and Classification of 'Pimelodidae'-
O.A.
Shibata. Anatomy, Phylogeny, and Taxonomy of Amphiliidae-
R.
Diogo. Phylogeny and Systematics of Bagridae-
Heok Hee
Ng. Taxonomy and Phylogeny of Clariidae: An Overview-
G.G.
Teugels and
D. Adriaens Volume 2 Part
IV: Fossil Record. Paleontology and Palaeobiogeography of
Catfishes-
M. Gayet and
F.J. Meunier Part V:
Ecology and Ethology. Ecology and Behaviour of Catfishes-
E.
Baras and
P. Laleye. Life Cycles, Limiting Factors,
and the Behavioral Ecology of Four Loricariid Catfishes in a Panamanian
River-
M.E. Power. Ecology and Ethology of Subterranean
Catfishes-
E. Trajano Part VI: Development.
Embryonic and Larval Development in Catfishes-
D. Adriaens and
Pierre
Vandewalle Part VII: Sensory Biology.
Vision in Catfishes-
S.P. Collin. Audition-
F. Ladich
and
A.H. Bass. Olfactory System in Catfishes-
John
Caprio and
Thomas E. Finger. Taste and Solitary
Chemoreceptor Cells-
B.G. Kapoor and
Thomas E. Finger.
Nitric Oxide Synthase in the Gill and Air-Sac of the Indian Catfish
Heteropneustes fossilis-
G. Zaccone, A. Mauceri, L. Ainis, A. Licata
and
S. Fasulo
