Development of Non-teleost Fishes

A compilation of the development of non-teleost fishes has so far been unavailable. These fishes include the jawless fishes (hagfish and lampreys) the cartilaginous fishes (sharks rays skates and chimaeras) the forerunners of the teleostei: the cladistia (bichirs and reedfish) the chondrostei (sturgeon and paddlefish the neopterygii (gar pike and bowfin) and finally the closest relations to the tetrapods: the lungfishes (the coelacanh [ living fossil] Protopterus of Africa Lepidosiren of South America and Neoceratodus of Australia). Therefore the present volume has been devoted to closing the gap by an up-to-date scientific review of the early life-history of these non-teleost fishes (agnathi excepted).