Evolutionary History of Fishes
A special issue of Diversity (ISSN 1424-2818). This special issue belongs to the section "Animal Diversity".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 1458
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Interests: fossils; phylogeny; palaeoecology; vertebrate paleontology; ecology and evolution; macroevolution; morphometrics; functional morphology; morphological analysis
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Interests: stratigraphy; sedimentology; sequence stratigraphy; sedimentary basins; marine geology; field geology; geological mapping; sediments; palaeoecology; quaternary geology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Fishes, which include all aquatic, non-tetrapod vertebrates, have had a major impact on the emergence and evolution of organisms and ecosystems across the vast majority of the Phanerozoic Eon. The first true craniate organism that could reasonably be called a fish (in a non-cladistic sense) appeared during the first period of the Paleozoic Era. This first appearance was rapidly followed by an evolutionary expansion that led to the wide diversity of extant and extinct fish groups by the end of the Paleozoic Era and beyond. Fishes are the most numerous and most diverse of all vertebrate groups. Many fish taxa serve as model organisms today, and the relationship humans have with fishes, in general, is likely as long-standing as the relationship of humans with aquatic environments themselves.
In this Special Issue, we will take an opportunity to highlight and promote new research on the evolutionary history of fishes. We think that it is important to examine fishes as a group as well as an individual taxon from the perspectives of their paleo-ecology, their diversity across time and space, the taphonomy of fossils in well-preserved konservat lagerstatten or high-volume deposits (bone beds), their relationships to one another, and their evolution in both the narrow and the broad sense. We invite manuscripts that focus on these issues with the goal of creating a platform from which future research can be built upon and can advance our knowledge of these topics that apply to such fundamentally significant vertebrates.
Prof. Dr. Charles Ciampaglio
Dr. Ryan C. Shell
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- evolutionary history
- fishes
- paleo-ecology
- diversity
- relationships
- evolution
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