A Guide to the Study of Fishes, Volume 1 (of 2)

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PREFACE

ERRATA [1] VOL. I

CONTENTS VOL. I.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS VOL. I.

CHAPTER I THE LIFE OF THE FISH

CHAPTER II THE EXTERIOR OF THE FISH

CHAPTER III THE DISSECTION OF THE FISH

CHAPTER IV THE SKELETON OF THE FISH

CHAPTER V MORPHOLOGY OF THE FINS

CHAPTER VI THE ORGANS OF RESPIRATION

CHAPTER VII THE NERVOUS SYSTEM

CHAPTER VIII THE ORGANS OF SENSE

CHAPTER IX THE ORGANS OF REPRODUCTION

CHAPTER X EMBRYOLOGY AND GROWTH OF FISHES

CHAPTER XI INSTINCTS, HABITS, AND ADAPTATIONS

CHAPTER XII ADAPTATIONS OF FISHES

CHAPTER XIII THE COLORS OF FISHES

CHAPTER XIV THE GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF FISHES

CHAPTER XV. ISTHMUS BARRIERS SEPARATING FISH FAUNAS

CHAPTER XVI DISPERSION OF FRESH-WATER FISHES [63]

CHAPTER XVII BARRIERS TO DISPERSION OF RIVER FISHES

CHAPTER XVIII FISHES AS FOOD FOR MAN

CHAPTER XIX DISEASES OF FISHES

CHAPTER XX THE MYTHOLOGY OF FISHES

CHAPTER XXI CLASSIFICATION OF FISHES

CHAPTER XXII THE HISTORY OF ICHTHYOLOGY

CHAPTER XXIII THE COLLECTION OF FISHES

CHAPTER XXIV THE EVOLUTION OF FISHES

CHAPTER XXV THE PROTOCHORDATA

CHAPTER XXVI THE TUNICATES, OR ASCIDIANS

CHAPTER XXVII THE LEPTOCARDII, OR LANCELETS

CHAPTER XXVIII THE CYCLOSTOMES, OR LAMPREYS

CHAPTER XXIX THE CLASS ELASMOBRANCHII OR SHARK-LIKE FISHES

CHAPTER XXX THE TRUE SHARKS

CHAPTER XXXI THE HOLOCEPHALI, OR CHIMAERAS

CHAPTER XXXII THE CLASS OSTRACOPHORI [152]

CHAPTER XXXIII ARTHRODIRES

CHAPTER XXXIV THE CROSSOPTERYGII

CHAPTER XXXV SUBCLASS DIPNEUSTI, [164] OR LUNGFISHES

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GUIDE TO THE STUDY OF FISHES

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A GUIDE
TO
THE STUDY OF FISHES

BY
DAVID STARR JORDAN
President of Leland Stanford Junior University

With Colored Frontispieces and 427 Illustrations

IN TWO VOLUMES Vol I.

"I am the wiser in respect to all knowledge and the better qualified for all fortunes for knowing that there is a minnow in that brook."—Thoreau

NEW YORK
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
1905

Copyright, 1905
BY
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
Published March, 1905

To
Theodore Gill,
Ichthyologist, Philosopher, Critic, Master in Taxonomy,
this volume is dedicated.

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