Biodiversity of Fishes

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Biodiversity of Fishes

• Phylogeny and Remarkable Fishes

Rainer Froese rfroese_at_ifm-geomar.de (30.10.07)
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Phylogeny of Fishes

• Classes
• Open www.FishBase.org, select Identification
  discuss Classes, click through to Families
• Fishes in Time
• Open FishBase, FishBase Book, Nomenclature, The
  Orders Table discuss common ancestry, also with
  poster show relation to tetrapods
• Examples of remarkable fishes
• See next slide

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Remarkable Fishes

• Discuss phylogeny, distribution, size, prey
  (trophic level) and predators, reproduction,
  growth, brain size, other traits.
• Myxine glutinosa
• Latimeria chalumnae
• Rhincodon typus
• Engraulis ringens
• Mola mola

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Phylogeny of Fishes

• Classes
• Open www.FishBase.org, select Identification
  discuss Classes, click through to Families
• Fishes in Time
• Open FishBase, FishBase Book, Nomenclature, The
  Orders Table discuss common ancestry, also with
  poster show relation to tetrapods
• Examples of remarkable fishes
• See next slide
• Exercise
• Select, explore and present some remarkable
  fishes based on information in FishBase