The oceans appear ideal for biodiversity—they have unlimited water, a large area, are well
connected, have less extreme temperatures than on land, and contain more phyla and …

Species are defined using a variety of different operational techniques. While discussion of
the various methodologies has previously been restricted mostly to taxonomists, the …

Incomplete knowledge of biodiversity remains a stumbling block for conservation planning
and even occurs within globally important Biodiversity Hotspots (BH). Although technical …

This checklist aims to list all the reported Iranian inland fishes. It lists 297 species in 109
genera, 30 families, 24 orders and 3 classes reported from different Iranian basins …

The taxonomy and nomenclature of the fishes of the superfamily Cobitoidea (suborder
Cobitoidei minus Catostomidae) are reviewed. Original descriptions of all 1499 recorded …

Species diversity can be lost through two different but potentially interacting extinction
processes: demographic decline and speciation reversal through introgressive …

The precise number of extant fish species remains to be determined. About 28,900 species
were listed in FishBase in 2005, but some experts feel that the final total may be …

Die Fauna-Flora-Habitat (FFH)-Richtlinie hat als ein wesentliches Ziel die Errichtung eines
EU-weiten kohärenten Netzes von Schutzgebieten unter dem Namen Natura 2000 und …

We examine the evolving concept of what constitutes a non‐native (or alien) freshwater fish.
In an attempt to distinguish between biogeographical and socio‐political perspectives, we …

Phylogeographic, nested clade, and mismatch analyses of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA)
variation were used to infer the temporal dynamics of distributional and demographic history …