Neogene Bony Fishes from the Bahía Inglesa Formation, Northern Chile

Neogene Decapod Crustacea from Southern Chile

Twelve species of Neogene decapod crustaceans are described from late Miocene and early Pliocene deposits in the Valdivia, Osorno-Llanquihue, and Chiloé basins as well as from Mocha Island, offshore from the Temuco Basin, southern Chile. New species of thalassinideans include Ctenocheles notialis and Axianassa? chilensis. Axianassa Schmitt, 1924, has not been reported previously in the fossil r...

Shallow-water Campanulariidae (Hydrozoa, Leptothecatae) from northern Bahía, Brazil.

This study provides the first semi-quantititative account of the benthic campanulariid hydroids from Northern Bahia (Brazil), down to a depth of 60 m, based largely on collections obtained since 1992. Colonies were collected from six habitats along the coast of Salvador City, Todos os Santos Bay, Itaparica Island and at the northernmost part of the coast of the State of Bahia. From the 982 colo...

Neogene aridification of the Northern Hemisphere

Neogene cooling and aridifi cation in the Northern Hemisphere have long been recognized, but there are no studies comparing patterns of aridity gradients or differences between North America and Eurasia. Large herbivorous mammals are an excellent source for understanding large-scale environmental and climatic patterns because their molar crown height (hypsodonty) refl ects both habitat and prec...

Evaluating economic performance of bony fishes companies in Gilan province

This study was conducted to evaluate the performance of Gilan trawling cooperatives. In this research, the descriptive statistics and break-even analysis method was used and the data of this research were collected by using a questionnaire from trawling cooperatives for the fishing season of 1396. The results showed that the cooperatives of Rasht and Astara with the average of 111829 and 7710 k...

The Peripheral Nervous System of the Bony Fishes