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1.1 – Intro to fishes, Intro to Biology, Ecology 1.2 – History of ichthyology

1.1 – Intro to fishes, Intro to Biology, Ecology 1.2 – History of ichthyology. Biology of Fishes. Ichthyology. Steven Mark Norris. steven.norris@csuci.edu. http://faculty.csuci.edu/steven.norris/. Gila Wilderness, New Mexico ca . 1969. Oklahoma. Little Colorado River Gorge, AZ. Africa.

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1.1 – Intro to fishes, Intro to Biology, Ecology 1.2 – History of ichthyology

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  1. 1.1 – Intro to fishes, Intro to Biology, Ecology 1.2 – History of ichthyology

  2. Biology of Fishes Ichthyology

  3. Steven Mark Norris steven.norris@csuci.edu http://faculty.csuci.edu/steven.norris/

  4. Gila Wilderness, New Mexico ca. 1969

  5. Oklahoma Little Colorado River Gorge, AZ Africa

  6. Belgium Yucatan SoCal

  7. South Side of Anacapa Island, OLLI and CSUCI classes, Spring 2006

  8. Fish – an enthusiast’s guide by Peter Moyle General reader www.amazon.com www.ebay.com www.abe.com

  9. Fishes – an introduction to Ichthyology by Moyle and Cech College text www.amazon.com www.ebay.com www.abe.com

  10. Biology of Fishes by Carl Bond Advanced college text www.amazon.com www.ebay.com www.abe.com

  11. Fish

  12. Fishes

  13. Fish Diversity ca. 25,000 described species 482 families with living representatives

  14. Smallest < 1cm Largest > 12m

  15. Smallest < 1cm Largest > 12m

  16. Deepest Abyssobrotula galatheae 8,370m (27,455 feet) Highest 5,200m (17,000 feet)

  17. Hottest 43.8° C (110.8°F) Coldest -1.86° C (28.6°F)

  18. Hypersaline Cyprinodon variegatus

  19. Torrential water Green River, Utah

  20. Caves Trogloglanis pattersoni Satan eurystomus

  21. Airbreathing

  22. Diet

  23. Reproduction

  24. Life Spans several weeks 150+ years

  25. Fishes

  26. “Fishes” 5 Living Groups

  27. Jawless Jawed

  28. Jawless Cartilaginous Bony

  29. jawless fishes jawed fishes fossil fishes

  30. Some history ….

  31. The Ancients Aristotle Pliny’s Natural History

  32. Middle Ages

  33. Science reawakens (in the west)

  34. Guillaume Rondelet (1507-1566)

  35. De Piscibus Marinum(1554-55) Mixing fact and myth …

  36. Travel, Trade and Exploration Mark Catesby (1683-1749) Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahamas (1743)

  37. Francis Willughby (1635-1672) John Ray (1627-1705)

  38. 1686

  39. Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) Father of modern classification

  40. Linnaeus (1758) Foundations of Modern Classification

  41. Peter Artedi (1705-1735) Ichthyologigia(1738)

  42. Mark Eliezer Bloch (1723-1799) Allgemeine Naturgeschichte der Fische (1782–95)

  43. Bernard de Lacépède (1756-1826) Histoire Naturelle des Poissons (VI -XI) (1798-1803)

  44. George Cuvier (1769-1832) Achille Valenciennes (1794-1865) Histoire Naturelle des poissons, 22 vols. (incomplete)

  45. Charles Darwin (1809-1882)

  46. Albert C. L. G. Günther(1830-1914) British Museum (Natural History) George Albert Boulenger (1858-1937)

  47. North American Ichthyology

  48. Constantine Samuel Rafinesque (1784-1843)

  49. David H. Storer (1804-1891) A Synopsis of the Fishes of North America– 1846, Boston

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