Several groups of fishes, among them two thirds of all freshwater fishes, have developed hearing specializations that enhance auditory sensitivity and broaden frequency ranges compared with hearing non-specialists (generalists), which lack such adaptations. It has been speculated that the enhanced sensitivities of these so-called hearing specialists have evolved in quiet habitats such as lakes,...

The present study was designed to investigate acute toxicity of dimethoate on juvenile Cyprinus carpio var. communis. Fishes weighing 10 ± 2 gms were selected and mortality data was statistically evaluated by Finney's Probit Method. The 96-hour LC50 value for Cyprinus carpio was found as 1.1 ppm in static bioassay system. Mean values of physicochemical parameters of aquarium waters determined d...

ABSTI~.CT Using a specific fluorimetric and biological method, the occurrence and distribution of histamine was investigated in man, various mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, bony and cartilaginous fishes, lancelets, tunicates, echinoderms, molluscs, and crustaceans. The anune was identified by. the fluorescence spectrum, by specific antihistaminics in the bioassay, by the comparison of the...

Since the beginning of the eighteenth century investigators have attempted to understand the mechanism of the respiration of fishes. Some have studied the driving elements of the respiratory pumps, the muscles, and others have analysed the outcome of the pumping movements, i.e. the pressures developed in buccal and opercular cavities. In the latter category Hughes & Shelton (1957, 1958, 1962) e...

Trophic transfer of perfluorooctanesulfonate (PFOS) and other related perfluorinated compounds was examined in a Great Lakes benthic foodweb including water-algae-zebra mussel-round goby-smallmouth bass. In addition, perfluorinated compounds were measured in livers and eggs of Chinook salmon and lake whitefish, in muscle tissue of carp, and in eggs of brown trout collected from Michigan. Simila...

Field survey of Aquaculture farms in Basrah governorate was done during 2007. The study showed that there are 80 fish farm with total area 773.5 donum, while it 16 2003. 75 % the were less than 25000 m² (10 donum). 53.9 excavated pond, 34.2% concentration by half ground pools and 11.8 dyke pond. About 87.5 using pump 12.5 used tidal current for water supply. This 95 fishes source from Marine Sc...

Variation among complete cytb sequences (1140 bp) of Aphanius mesopotamicus Coad, 2009 was compared with closely related species, to investigate the validity of this taxon as a newly-described tooth-carp based on morphological characteristics. Maximum likelihood and Bayesian likelihood trees supported the monophyly of A. mesopotamicus and its sister group relationship to A. sophiae. Some 10-16 ...

The main focus of the current study is on assessing habitability some selected fishes in Indo-Bangladesh barind tract wetland pursuance damming using hydrological components such as hydro-period, water depth, and presence consistency deriving from satellite images. For pre-dam post-dam periods, a rule-based decision tree modeling approach was used to integrate aforementioned factors determine h...

An appropriate environmental flow (AEF) is one of the necessary conditions for fish spawning. The operation cascade reservoirs in lower reaches Jinsha River has changed discharge process downstream, which turn directly affected spawning habitat fishes. Determining how to quantitatively evaluate impact different outflows from Xiangjiaba Reservoir on four major Chinese carp species downstream are...

The independent evolution of the two toothed jaws of cichlid fishes is thought to have promoted their unparalleled ecological divergence and species richness. However, dental divergence in cichlids could exhibit substantial genetic covariance and this could dictate how traits like tooth numbers evolve in different African Lakes and on their two jaws. To test this hypothesis, we used a hybrid ma...