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Table of Contents

1 Systematics and biogeography: an overview.- 2 The fossil record of the Cyprinidae.- 3 Morphometric investigations in cyprinid biology.- 4 Molecular and cytological investigations.- 5 Cyprinids of Eurasia.- 6 Cyprinids of South East Asia.- 7 Cyprinids of Africa.- 8 Cyprinids of the New World.- 9 Cyprinids of Australasia.- 10 Brain and sensory systems.- 11 Acoustico-lateralis system.- 12 Diets and feeding behavior.- 13 Food capture and oral processing.- 14 Digestion.- 15 Physiological energetics and ecophysiology.- 16 Growth and production.- 17 Reproduction and life history.- 18 Social behaviour, homing and migration.- 19 Interspecific interactions.- 20 The role of cyprinids in ecosystems.- 21 Fisheries.- 22 Aquaculture.- Author index.- Taxonomic index.

Reviews

`It is a magnificent and stimulating piece of work ...'
The Biologist
`There is no doubt that Cyprinids is an important book which should be in all University and other libraries where fish biology is the chief occupation.'
Journal of Fish Biology
` ...draws the knowledge of over thirty international experts to provide the first comprehensive account of the biology of the family.'
Aquaculture News
`The importance of cyprinids in world fisheries and aquaculture ensures that this book will be of great interest to many working in these fields.'
Aquaculture News
` ...succeeds remarkably well in its aim to review the vast literature of cyprinid biology in a readable form...should be, and probably is already, a standard reference for ichthyologists and their students.'
Copeia