Dictionary of Ichthyology

Brian W. Coad and Don E. McAllister

Revised: 10 April 2008

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References Most of these references are from the text of this Dictionary. Some are general works with definitions of terms, sometimes with quite extensive explications not given in this Dictionary. Others are dictionaries or glossaries that contain some specialised terms that are not in this Dictionary as they are somewhat far removed from "ichthyology". Coad (1995) contains an extensive bibliography of books about collecting and preserving fishes, textbooks on ichthyology and books on regional ichthyofaunas.

Allan, I. R. H. and Ritter, J. A. 1977. Salmonid terminology. Journal du Conseil International pour l'Exploration de la Mer, 37(3):293-299.

Antonacopoulos, N. 1997. Dictionary fish: six-language dictionary of fish, crustaceans and molluscs and products thereof. B. Behr's Verlag, Hamburg. xii + 640 pp.

Armantrout, N. B. 1998. Glossary of Aquatic Habitat Inventory Terminology. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, Maryland. xiii + 136 pp.

Balon, E. K. 1975. Terminology of intervals in fish development. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, 32(9):1663-1670.

Balon, E. K. 1976. A note concerning Dr Richard's comments. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, 33(5):1254-1256.

Balon, E. K. 1977. Fish gluttons: the natural ability of some fishes to become obese when food is in extreme abundance. Hydrobiologia, 52(2-3):239-241.

Balon, E. K. 1990. Epigenesis of an epigeneticist: the development of some alternative concepts on the early ontogeny and evolution of fishes. Guelph Ichthyology Reviews, 1:1-46.

Bemis, W. E. and Northcutt, R. G. 1992. Skin and blood vessels of the snout of the Australian lungfish, Neoceratodus forsteri, and their significance for interpreting the cosmine of Devonian lungfishes. Acta Zoologica, 73:115-139.

Bruner, J. C. 2004. “Spreitzer” vertebrae, a unique character found only in Ammocrypta (crystal and sand darters), pp. 57-58. In: Barry, T. P. and Malison, J. A. (Eds.). Proceedings of Percis III. The Third International Percid Fish Symposium. University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute, University of Wisconsin, Madison. 136 pp.

Coad, B. W. 1995. Expedition Field Techniques: Fishes. Expedition Advisory Centre, Royal Geographical Society, London. 2nd Edition. 97 pp.

Cook, F. R. and Coad, B. W. 2002. Donald Evan McAllister: Curatorial and research contributions at Canadian Museum of Nature. Sea Wind, 15(1/2)(2001):46-53.

Cook, F. R., Coad, B. W. and Renaud, C. B. 2002. Donald Evan McAllister 1934-2001. Copeia, 2002(3):890-894.

Cook, F. R., Gruchy, C. G. and Coad, B. W. 2001. Donald Evan McAllister, 1934-2001: A tribute. Amphipacifica, 3(2):1-2.

Cutting, C. L. 1955. Fish Saving. A History of Fish Processing from Ancient to Modern Times. Leonard Hill, London. xv + 372 pp.

Daintith, M. and Nowak, B. 1996. Fish health glossary. Proceedings of the University of Sydney Post Graduate Foundation in Veterinary Science, 265:169-176.

Dawley, R. M. 1989. A introduction to unisexual vertebrates, p. 1-18. In: Dawley, R. M. and Bogart, J. P. Evolution and Ecology of Unisexual Vertebrates. New York State Museum Bulletin, 466:v + 302 pp.

Desai, V. R. 1970. Studies on the fishery and biology of Tor tor (Hamilton) from River Narbada. Journal of the Inland Fishery Society of India, 2:101-112.

Dobriyal, A. K., Rautela, K. K. and Rautela, A. S. 1999. Invention of a new index for the determination of sexual maturity in fishes. Uttar Pradesh Journal of Zoology, 19(3):207-209.

Eapen, P. K. 1999. Elsevier's Dictionary of Fisheries. Elsevier, Amsterdam. 340 pp.

Eckert, G. 1984. The sex changing coral reef fish. Australian Natural History, 21(5):204-205.

Eleftheriou, M. (Ed.). 1997. Aqualex. A Glossary of Aquaculture Terms. John Wiley & Sons and Praxis Publishing, Chichester. xiii + 397 pp.

Eschmeyer, W. N. (Ed.). 1998. Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco. 3 volumes, CD-ROM.

Fraser, T. H. and Smith, M. M. 1974. An exterilium larval fish from South Africa with comments on its classification. Copeia, 1974(4):886-892.

Fromm, P. O. 1974. Circulation in trout gills: presence of "blebs" in afferent filamental vessels. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, 31(11):1793-1796.

Gewin, V. 2002. All living things, online. Nature, London, 418:362-363.

Gough, J. and Kenchington, T. 1995. A Glossary of Fisheries Science. Terms in Common Use in the Scotia-Fundy Region. Communications Branch, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Halifax. iv + 48 pp.

Grande, L. 2000. Fossils, phylogeny, and Patterson's Rule, p. 24-30. In: Forey, P. L., Gardiner, B. G. and Humphries, C. (Eds.). Colin Patterson (1933-1998), a celebration of his life. Special Issue No. 2, The Linnaean Society of London.

Greenwood, P. H. 1978. A review of the pharyngeal apophysis and its significance in the classification of African cichlid fishes. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Zoology), 33(5):297-323.

Gudger, E. W. 1921. Rains of fishes. Natural History, 21(6):607-619.

Herman, J., Hovestadt-Euler, M., Hovestadt, D. C. and Stehmann, M. 1994. Contributions to the study of the comparative morphology of teeth and other relevant ichthyodorulites in living supra-specific taxa of Chondrichthyan fishes. Part B: Batomorphii No. 1a: Order Rajiformes - Suborder Rajoidei - Family: Rajidae Genera and Subgenera: Anacanthobatis (Schroederobatis), Anacanthobatis (Springeria), Breviraja, Dactylobatus, Gurgesiella (Gurgesiella), Gurgesiella (Fenestraja), Malacoraja, Neoraja and Pavoraja. Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Biologie, 64:165-207.

Htun-Han, M. 1978. The reproductive biology of the dab Limanda limanda (L.) in the North Sea: gonosomatic index, hepatosomatic index and condition factor. Journal of Fish Biology, 13(3):369-378.

Hubbs, C. L. 1943. Terminology of early stages of fishes. Copeia, 1943(4):260.

Johnson, G. D. 1975. The procurrent spur: an undescribed perciform caudal character and its phylogenetic implications. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences, 121:1-23.

Leviton, A. E. and Gibbs, R. H. 1988. Standards in herpetology and ichthyology. Standard symbolic codes for institutional resource collections in herpetology and ichthyology. Supplement No.1: Additions and corrections. Copeia, 1988(1):280-282.

Leviton, A. E., Gibbs, R. H., Heal, E. and Dawson, C. E. 1985. Standards in herpetology and ichthyology: Part I. Standard symbolic codes for institutional resource collections in herpetology and ichthyology. Copeia, 1985(3):802-832.

Lincoln, R., Boxshall, G. and Clark, P. 1998. A Dictionary of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics. Second Edition. Cambridge University Press. ix + 361 pp.

Lissmann, H. W. 1963. Electric location by fishes. Scientific American, March 1963 Reprint 152, 12 pp.

Lundberg, J. G. and Baskin, J. N. 1969. The caudal skeleton of the catfishes, Order Siluriformes. American Museum Novitates, 2398:1-49.

Moore, B. R. and Mitchell, A. J. 1987. Conversions Useful in Fish Culture and Fishery Research and Management. Fish and Wildlife Leaflet, Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., 10:v + 31 pp.

Morrison, D. A. 2007. Review of "The Tree of Life: A Phylogenetic Classification" by Guillaume Lecointre and Hervé Le Guyader. 2006. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. 560 pp. Systematic Biology, 56:696-698.

Myers, G. S. 1949. Usage of anadromous, catadromous and allied terms for migratory fishes. Copeia, 1949(2):89-97.

Nelson, J. S. 2006. Fishes of the World. 4th edition. John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, New Jersey. xvii + 601 pp.

Olsson, R. 1958. A bucco-hypophysial canal in Elops saurus. Nature, London, 182(4651):1745.

Pfeiffer, W. 1967. Shreckreaktion und Schreckstoffzellen bei Ostariophysi und Gonorhynchiformes. Zeitschrift für vergleichendec Physiologie, 56(4):380-396.

Poyato-Ariza, F. J. and Wenz, S. 2002. A new insight into pycnodontiform fishes. Geodiversitas, 24(1):139-248.

Richards, W. J. 1976. Some comments on Balon's terminology of fish development intervals. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, 33(5):1253-1254.

Ricker, W. E. 1975. Computation and interpretation of biological statistics of fish populations. Bulletin of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, 191:xviii + 382 pp.

Rojo, A. L. 1991. Dictionary of Evolutionary Fish Osteology. CRC Press, Boca Raton. 273 pp.

Sazima, I. 1983. Scale-eating in characoids and other fishes. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 9(2):87-101.

Scheel, J. J. 1990. Atlas of Killifishes of the Old World. TFH Publications, Neptune City, New Jersey. 448 pp.

Simoons, F. J., Schonfeld-Leber, B. and Issel, H. L. 1979. Cultural deterrents to use of fish as human food. Oceanus, 22(1):67-71.

von Brandt, A. 1964. Fish Catching Methods of the World. Fishing News (Books) Ltd., London. xxiv + 191 pp.

Wachtel, A. W. and Szamier, R. B. 1969. Special cutaneous receptor organs of fish: IV. Ampullary organs of the nonelectric catfish, Kryptopterus. Journal of Morphology, 128(3):291-308.

Walters, C. 2003. Folly and fantasy in the analysis of spatial catch rate data. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 60:1433-1436.

Whittle, K. J. and Howgate, P. 2002. Glossary of Fish Technology Terms. www.onefish.org/global/FishTechnologyGlossaryFeb02.pdf, downloaded 5 December 2003. 63 pp.

Wiley, M. L. and Collette, B. B. 1970. Breeding tubercles and contact organs in fishes: their occurrence, structure, and significance. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 143(3):143-216.

Wullimann, M. F., Rupp, B. and Reichert, H. 1996. Neuroanatomy of the Zebrafish Brain. A Topological Atlas. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel. vii + 144 pp.

Zangerl, R. 1981. Handbook of Paleoichthyology. Chondrichthyes I. Paleozoic Elasmobranchii. Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart. 115 pp.

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