The invasion of land by a diverse group of fishlike amphibians during the Middle-Late Devonian was a key event in the history of life. It is obvious that the evolutionary transition from an aquatic to a terrestrial habitat was associated with physiological adaptations such as novel feeding strategies that can not be elucidated with fossils alone. Here we show that two extant vertebrate species,...

Mangrove forest is one of the ecosystems in coastal area that plays an important role as a habitat for iktiofauna, which gelodok fish community. The purpose this study was to compare community structure mudskippers at Bahak Indah Coast, Tongas, Probolinggo with or without mangrove vegetation. conducted January–February 2022. determination observation station carried out purposively, determined ...

The study was done to review some saltwater and freshwater fish species in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. is one most prominent regions Nigeria, endowed with several water bodies that are distributed as like rivers, lakes, streams creeks. These ecosystems region, abundantly such Clarias gariepinus, Pila ovate, Labeo coubie, Synodontis budgetti eupterus. Apart from freshwaters, also has vast...

Two species of mudskipper are identified with different behaviours, which related to their pelvic fin morphologies. Periophthalmus variabilis has unfused fins and is capable climb on the vertical substrate. Another species, Boleophthalmus boddarti fused supports fish mobility across muddy In context anatomy, both composed a frenum covers girdle rays (lepidotrichia). The P. split that not interc...