Updated checklist of Azores Actinopterygii (Gnathostomata: Osteichthyes) [PDF]
Since the first published comprehensive checklist of Azorean fishes - covering the whole EEZ region - several new records have been published and an updated checklist published in 2010.
Luís M. D. Barcelos +2 more
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Unappreciated Cenozoic ecomorphological diversification of stem gars revealed by a new large species [PDF]
The evolutionary history of gars, an ancient group of ray-finned fishes, is excellently documented in the fossil record. These fishes are notable for how little the anatomy of extant species differs from that of their earliest known relatives from ...
CHASE DORAN BROWNSTEIN
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Osteology and relationships of Rhinopycnodus gabriellae gen. et sp. nov. (Pycnodontiformes) from the marine Late Cretaceous of Lebanon [PDF]
The osteology of Rhinopycnodus gabriellae gen. and sp. nov., a pycnodontiform fish from the marine Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous) of Lebanon, is studied in detail.
Capasso, Luigi, Taverne, Louis
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Late Mesozoic marine Antarctic fishes: future perspectives based on the newly collections recovered in the Ameghino and López de Bertodano Formations [PDF]
Nowadays, notothenioids are the teleostean group that dominates marine Antarctic waters. However, during the Mesozoic a diverse ichthyofauna inhabited the sea that surrounded Antarctic.
Soledad Gouiric-Cavalli +10 more
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Diversity of Cretaceous continental actinopterygians from Argentina, South America [PDF]
South America holds a signiicant number of continental ish-bearing deposits of Cretaceous age. The principal purpose of the current article is to illustrate the diversity of continental actinopterygian assemblages of the main Cretaceous localities from ...
P. Guillermina Giordano
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Lung evolution in vertebrates and the water-to-land transition
A crucial evolutionary change in vertebrate history was the Palaeozoic (Devonian 419–359 million years ago) water-to-land transition, allowed by key morphological and physiological modifications including the acquisition of lungs. Nonetheless, the origin
Camila Cupello +12 more
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Feeding convergence among ray-finned fishes: Teeth of the herbivorous actinopterygians from the latest Permian of East European Platform, Russia [PDF]
unique functional adaptation to herbivory within early ray-finned fishes is exemplified by the late Permian actinopterygians within the family Eurynotoidiidae with policuspid teeth strongly modified with respect to the primitive actinopterygian ...
Maciej Pindakiewicz +8 more
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Colonization of the deep sea by fishes [PDF]
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Froese, R, Priede, I G
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Neopterygian phylogeny: the merger assay [PDF]
The phylogenetic relationships of the recently described genus †Ticinolepis from the Middle Triassic of the Monte San Giorgio are explored through cladistic analyses of the so far largest morphological dataset for fossil actinopterygians, including ...
Adriana López-Arbarello +1 more
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Studies on reproduction of the mullet Mugil platanus Günther, 1880 (Actinopterygii, Mugilidae) from the Mar Chiquita coastal lagoon, Argentina: Similarities and differences with related species [PDF]
The aim of the present study is to provide the first results on the reproductive biology of Mugil platanus, from the Mar Chiquita coastal lagoon (Argentina).
Cousseau, María Berta +2 more
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