Morphological Evolution, Adaptations, Homoplasies, Constraints, and Evolutionary Trends

Download or read book Morphological Evolution, Adaptations, Homoplasies, Constraints, and Evolutionary Trends written by Rui Diogo and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2004-01-11 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The major aim of this work is, to help clarify the interrelationships of catfishes, with major implications on the study of the general evolution of these fishes. A great part of this work, therefore, deals with a cladistic analysis of catfish higher-level phylogeny based on extensive morphological data, in which are included some terminal taxa not