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1.1 Intro to fishes, Intro to Biology,
Ecology 1.2 History of ichthyology
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Biology of Fishes
Ichthyology
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Steven Mark Norris
steven.norris_at_csuci.edu
http//faculty.csuci.edu/steven.norris/
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Gila Wilderness, New Mexico ca. 1969
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Oklahoma
Little Colorado River Gorge, AZ
Africa
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Belgium
Yucatan
SoCal
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South Side of Anacapa Island, OLLI and CSUCI
classes, Spring 2006
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Fish an enthusiasts guide by Peter Moyle
General reader
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Fishes an introduction to Ichthyology by Moyle
and Cech
College text
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Biology of Fishes by Carl Bond
Advanced college text
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Fish
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Fishes
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Fish Diversity
ca. 25,000 described species
482 families with living representatives
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Smallest lt 1cm
Largest gt 12m
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Smallest lt 1cm
Largest gt 12m
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Deepest
Abyssobrotula galatheae 
8,370m (27,455 feet)
Highest
5,200m (17,000 feet)
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Hottest
43.8 C (110.8F)
Coldest
-1.86 C (28.6F)
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Hypersaline
Cyprinodon variegatus
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Torrential water
Green River, Utah
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Caves
Trogloglanis pattersoni
Satan eurystomus
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Airbreathing
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Diet
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Reproduction
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Life Spans
several weeks
150 years
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Fishes
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Fishes
5 Living Groups
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Jawless
Jawed
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Jawless
Cartilaginous
Bony
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jawless fishes
jawed fishes
fossil fishes
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Some history .
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The Ancients
Aristotle
Plinys Natural History
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Middle Ages
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Science reawakens (in the west)
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Guillaume Rondelet (1507-1566)
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De Piscibus Marinum (1554-55)
Mixing fact and myth
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Travel, Trade and Exploration
Mark Catesby (1683-1749)
Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the
Bahamas (1743)
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Francis Willughby (1635-1672)
John Ray (1627-1705)
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1686
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Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778)
Father of modern classification
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Linnaeus (1758)
Foundations of Modern Classification
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Peter Artedi (1705-1735)
Ichthyologigia (1738)
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Mark Eliezer Bloch (1723-1799)
Allgemeine Naturgeschichte der Fische (178295)
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Bernard de Lacépède (1756-1826)
Histoire Naturelle des Poissons
(VI -XI) (1798-1803)
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George Cuvier (1769-1832)
Achille Valenciennes (1794-1865)
Histoire Naturelle des poissons, 22 vols.
(incomplete)
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Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
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Albert C. L. G. Günther (1830-1914)
British Museum (Natural History)
George Albert Boulenger (1858-1937)
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North American Ichthyology
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Constantine Samuel Rafinesque (1784-1843)
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David H. Storer (1804-1891)
A Synopsis of the Fishes of North America 1846,
Boston
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Charles Girard (1822-1985)
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Western Exploration
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Theadore N. Gill (1837-1914)
Edward D. Cope (1840-1897)
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David Starr Jordan (1851-1931)
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Carl and Rosa Eigenmann
C.H. Gilbert
B.W. Evermann
Carl and Laura Hubbs
Seth Meek
J.O. Snyder
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Carl L. Hubbs (1894-1979)
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Robert Rush Miller (1916-2003)
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1996 La Paz, Mexico
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Georges Cuvier (1769-1832)
Jardin des Plantes, Paris
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Louis Agassiz (1807-1873)
Harvard, Museum of Comparative Zoology
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David Starr Jordan (1851-1831)
Stanford University, California
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Charles Henry Gilbert (1859-1828)
Stanford University, California
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Carl L. Hubbs (1894-1979)
University of Michigan, Museum of Zoology Scripps
Institute of Oceanography
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Louis Krumholz (1909-1981)
University of Louisville, Tennessee
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W. L. Minckley (1935-2001)
Arizona State University, Tempe
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Mayan pyramid at Calakmul, Yucatán -- 2000
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The American Society of Ichthyologists and
Herpetologists
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ASIH 1932
ASIH 1962