Peter Forey

History of the Coelacanth Fishes

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book evaluates the reputation of the coelacanth, presenting up-to-date accounts of the structure of fossil coelacanths, and suggests a family history to show that there have been subtle but significant changes in coelacanth history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer / Springer Netherlands
• 1997.
• Seitenzahl: 420
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 1043g
• ISBN-13: 9780412784804
• ISBN-10: 0412784807
• Artikelnr.: 24439229

Inhaltsangabe

- Introduction

- Comparative anatomy

- Interrerlationships of coelacanths

- Classification and evolution of coelacanths

- Summary of major findings

- Appendices

Rezensionen

`Collaboration between Chapman & Hall and the Natural History Museum has produced this rich and erudite volume...are to be congratulated on their commitment. ...elegantly written and easy enough to assimilate. Most palaeoichthyologists will have it on their wish-list.'
Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 13:8 (1998)

`Collaboration between Chapman & Hall and the Natural History Museum has produced this rich and erudite volume...are to be congratulated on their commitment. ...elegantly written and easy enough to assimilate. Most palaeoichthyologists will have it on their wish-list.'
Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 13:8 (1998)