Fish -shaped from the beginning to the present day. Belyaeva N.

The variety and unusualness of the ancient fish -shaped amazing the imagination. Only lampages and mixins have survived to our days from the blessings, and in the ancient seas there were much more: bone -protective, perishable, tistelds... Among the maxillofacies there were such creatures that are not like any modern fish: spiked acantodes, shaved in plastic underwear, “” Winged »Inopteria, an amazing helikoprion with a spiral in the mouth, four -bearing -like ripidics - a huge set of strange scales, tails and fins. Among modern there are also amazing fish: protecting nests and caviar in bags and mouth, owners of strange devices and “legs”, frightening appearance (not to mention the size), even almost land fish, not very similar to fish.

The author of the book is Natalya Viktorovna Baleeva, candidate of biological sciences, morphologist, teacher of the Department of Zoology of the Vermnation St. Petersburg State University, for many years reading the biologists course of ichthyology.

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