Fish Biology

Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Muscles and electric organs: i. Voluntary musculature. ii. Electric organs of teleosts. 3. Gill-slits and gill: i. Respiratory role of gill: holobranchs. ii. Non-respiratory role of gill: chloride cells. iii. Gill and gill-pouch derivatives. 4. Swim Bladder. 5. Excretion and osmoregulation in teleosts. 6. Neurosecretion and endocrine secretion in teleosts. 7. The lateral line system of Teleosts and its innervation. 8. Fish classification schemes. 9. Placoderms and other early Gnathostomes. 10. Crossopterygians. 11. Dipnoi (Lungfishes). Index.

"The book is primarily intended to serve as both a text book for the graduate/postgraduate courses and a reference book for researchers, teachers and fishery biologists. The teachers particularly those imparting advanced teaching, will get contemporary view of the topics they teach. Ichthyology is a much sort after subject of specialisation for students doing post graduation at Indian Universities. Lack of up to date comprehensive resource material written by Indian authors is greatly felt, and it is one of the factors impending the updating of the syllabi. The book is intended to fill this void. A wide coverage of fish biology will make it of interest not only to ichthyologist but to professional fishery biologist as well desiring to learn basic structure and function of fish body in daily life of the fish. The book will also be found useful in may ways to the large number of candidates who seek to appear at competitive professional examination or face interviews for selection to build their carrier, every year."