Kategoria BISAC: Science >> Life Sciences - Zoology - Ichthyology & Herpetology

One cannot help being struck with wonder at the vivid pink of 10,000 flamingos rising from Lake Nakuru or the glowing red gorget of a ruby-throated hummingbird feeding outside the kitchen window. How birds produce the brilliant and striking coloration of their feathers and other body parts is the focus of this first volume of Bird Coloration. It has been more than 40 years since the mechanisms of color production of birds have been reviewed and synthesized and in those 40 years new pigments have been discovered, new genetic mechanisms have been described, new theories have been...

The book presents current knowledge on the geographic and genetic variation of the ubiquitous three-spined stickleback and explores the...

The waters around Australia, the world's smallest continent, are home to the greatest diversity of sharks and rays on Earth. Fully 100 of these sea creatures (along with their little-known relatives, the chimaerids) have been named or described since the first edition of this book--the biggest revision of the Class Chondrichthyes since the time of Linneaus. This second edition of Sharks and Rays of Australia brings more than 300 of these species to life in newly commissioned, full-color illustrations.

Here, in precisely painted detail, are the weird silvery ghost shark and the...

Reproductive Biology and Early Life History of Fishes in the Ohio River Drainage represents the entire ichthyofauna of the majority of eastern North America. This comprehensive reference provides distinguishing characteristics as well as pictorial guide to the families of fishes that are present in the Ohio River drainage. Family chapters are organized into species accounts, which are further divided into subtopics, and offer a condensed summary. This book provides a description of species range, distribution, occurrence, movement patterns, spawning, and taxonomic diagnosis. The text also...