Biology
of Lungfish
SYMPOSIUM PROCEEDINGS
Marisa Fernandes
Don MacKinlay
International
Congress on the Biology of Fish
Tropical Hotel Resort,
Copyright © 2004
Physiology Section,
American Fisheries Society
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International Standard Book
Number(ISBN) 1-894337-50-6
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PREFACE
Three genera of
lungfish remain today as relicts of a once large and important Devonian group.
Speakers who have worked on various aspects of Australian, African or South
American lungfish presented and discussed the physiology, anatomy and life
cycle of these animals and the factors that allowed their survival since the
Paleozoic in spite of the emergence of tetrapods and teleosts. We hope to form
the core of an international lungfish study group.
Symposium
Organizers:
Marisa
Fernandes, Federal
Don
MacKinlay, Fisheries and Oceans
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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The origin and
evolution of lungfish
Anne Kemp .................................................................................................................
Aspects of the
morphology and physiology of the Australian lungfish, Neoceratodus
forsteri
Anne Kemp .................................................................................................................
On the morphology of
the lung of the African lungfsh, Protopterus aethiopicus
John N. Maina ...........................................................................................................
Morphometry of
the respiratory organs of the South American lungfish, Lepidosiren paradoxa
(dipnoi)
Marisa N. Fernandes, Marcos F.P.G. de
Moraes, Sabine Höller, Oscar T.F. da Costa, Mogens L. Glass, Steven F. Perry
A.P. Sanchez, J. Amin-Naves, H. Giusti, S.
F. Perry, M.L. Glass........................
Cardiac function in
the South American lungfish: peculiarities of the E-C coupling
Costa, M.J.; Rocha, M.;
Effects of ultraviolet
on the incidence of ectoparasites in pirarucu, Arapaima gigas
Silva, A.P.B., Varella, A.M.B.
The cocoon
composition of the aestivating African lungfish (Protopterus dolloi).
Richard W Smith, Makiko Kajimura and Chris M
Wood...................................
Brian R. McMahon....................................................................................................