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Book review – The teeth of non-mammalian vertebrates
THE TEETH OF NON-MAMMALIAN VERTEBRATES By B. Berkovitz & P. Shellis Elsevier/Acadenic Press, London, 2016. 354 pp. Price $150.00 ISBN 978-0-12-802850-6 (hard cover) Teeth are mineralized, hard structures typically present at the mouth, which aid food acquisiton and processing. Teeth were a key evolutionary feature during the early evolution of
Book review – The Freshwater fishes of Suriname
THE FRESHWATER FISHES OF SURINAMEBy Jan H. A. MolPublished by Brill Academic Pub, Leiden- Boston, 2012.889pp.Price $83.00ISBN 9789004210745 This unique work contains for the first time all 64 inland fish families as well as the species of the 9 recognized subfamilies in the Characidae, with the exception of Serrasalminae, which
Book review – Indian Ocean Reef Guide
INDIAN OCEAN REEF GUIDEMaldives-Sri Lanka-Thailand-South Africa-Mauritius-Madagascar-East Africa-Seychelles. By H. DebeliusPublished by ConchBooks, Harxheim, Germany, 2013. 321pp. Price 39.80€ ISBN 978-3-939767-52-7 This book deals with all range of marine animals to be found in the Indian Ocean, molluscs, corals, crustaceans, other marine invertebrates, cartilaginous fish, bony fish, reptiles, and mammals .
In Memoriam Dr. Eugenie Clark (1922 – 2015)
On February 25, 2015, the world lost its most remarkable pioneer in shark research and scuba-diving for research purposes, a leading ichthyologist and marine conservationist, and we lost a beloved colleague, Dr. Eugenie Clark, who died of non-smoking lung cancer at her home in Sarasota, Florida. Nicknamed “the Shark Lady”,
Book review – Fishes of Australia’s Southern Coast
FISHES OF AUSTRALIA’S SOUTHERN COASTBy M. Gommon, D. Bray & R. KuiterReed New Holland Publishers (Australia) Pty. Ltd, 2008. 928pp. Aust. $130.00ISBN 978187706-9185 (hard cover) Not long ago, when talking to Martin Gomon, the senior editor of this book, described it as a heavy tome, weighing more than 2
Flavio C. T. Lima – new Scientific Editor of aqua
This is my very special and warm “Welcome” for Flávio César Thadeo de Lima to be the new scientific editor of aqua, to guide this scientific journal to further worldwide success as all his procedures did, with very hard precise and intensive work.I know Flávio, one of Heraldo Britski’s preferred
Frank L. Pezold III – retired from aqua
I must thank Frank L. Pezold III, for his great work during the last two years for aqua, and especially because he made it again possible for this strict peer-reviewed scientific journal to be even more respected an appreciated by the international Ichthyologic community. Frank has committed himself for an
Simultaneous delimitation of species and quantification of interspecific hybridization in Amazonian peacock cichlid
Simultaneous delimitation of species and quantification of interspecific hybridization in Amazonian peacock cichlids (genus cichla) using multi-locus data
Second Nematocharax species described
A new member of the genus Nematocharax from Bahia state, eastern Brazil is just the second member of the genus known to date…… For further information download the full, open access paper: Negreiros de Bragança, P. H., M. A. Barbosa and J. L. Mattos, 2013. A new Nematocharax species from
