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; 844 pages (2 vols.); US $ 159.00      Buy Now

Catfishes is a landmark publication containing 26 scientific chapters dealing with diverse information on fossil and modern siluriform fishes, providing an overview of knowledge, current research, and scientific disagreements yet to be solved concerning siluriforms. The book is a synthesis of specialized articles that present the current state of knowledge of different aspects of catfish biology, each supplemented with extensive lists of literature.

The book is divided in two volumes. 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