The family Characidae is the most diverse among Neotropical fishes. Systematics of this
family are mainly based on pre-cladistic papers, and only recently a phylogenetic hypothesis …

The book is a detailed risk assessment and biological synopsis of the bigheaded carps of
the genus Hypophthalmichthys, which includes the bighead, silver, and largescale silver …

Higher-level relationships among catfishes were investigated by parsimony, maximum
likelihood and Bayesian analyses of two nuclear genes across 110 catfish species …

Diversity in coral reef fishes is not evenly distributed and tends to accumulate in the Indo-
Malay-Philippines Archipelago (IMPA). The comprehension of the mechanisms that initiated …

A checklist of the marine fish fauna of Turkey is presented for the first time. Examination of
the previous studies revealed the presence of 448 species in 133 families. A total of 45 …

Abstract The European Water Framework Directive (WFD) establishes a well differentiated
typology of water bodies on the basis of scientific and biological criteria. For coastal waters …

The family Mugilidae comprises mainly coastal marine species that are widely distributed in
all tropical, subtropical and temperate seas. Mugilid species are generally considered to be …

Carps of the family Cyprinidae, the largest family of freshwater fishes in the world (Nelson
1994), have long been introduced beyond their native ranges, a practice that continues …

Essential to any model, conservation or management plan are measures of the distribution
and abundance of a species. Countless methods for estimating these parameters exist …

Neotropical cichlid fishes comprise approximately 60 genera and at least 600 species, but
despite this diversity, their phylogeny is only partially understood, which limits taxonomic …