Textbook of Ichthyology

Ichthyology describes all aspects of fish from their classification, behavior, diversity, ecology, habits and uses. In the present book the whole subject matter has been divided into thirty chapters which includes introduction, classification, agnatha, class cyclostomes, super class gnathostomata, class elasmobranhi, subclass bradyodonti,classosteichtyes, subclass crossopterygii, order dipnoi, body shape and size, tegument, scales, colouration, fin, muscles and locomotion, skeletal system, food and feeding habits and alimentary canal, respiratory system, blood vascular system, swim bladder, weberian ossicles, nervous system, endocrine organ, exrecretory system, reproductive system, parental care, fish migration, special characters and adaptation in fishes.This textbook is primarily intended as a textbook for UG and PG courses of zoology, aquaculture and fisheries of Indian Universities. This publication would fulfill the needs of students, teachers, researchers, extension workers, zoologists, aquaculturists, technocrats, limnologists, aquatic ecologists, fisheries and marine biologists as well as by those who are engaged in commercial exploration of aquaculture and fisheries.