Phylogenetic classification of living and fossil ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii)

TJ Near, CE Thacker - Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, 2024 - BioOne
Classification of the tremendous diversity of ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii) began with the
designation of taxonomic groups on the basis of morphological similarity. Starting in the late …

How to tuna fish: constraint, convergence, and integration in the neurocranium of pelagiarian fishes

A Knapp, G Rangel-de Lázaro, M Friedman… - …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Morphological evolution of the vertebrate skull has been explored across a wide range of
tetrapod clades using geometric morphometrics, but the application of these methods to …

Ornamentation diversified faster than eco-morphology across Nearctic dragonflies

K Hersch, MP Moore - Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Eco-morphology and ornamentation are two phenotypic dimensions along which co-existing
species often diverge, yet theory makes contrasting predictions about how these phenotypes …

Three-dimensional anatomy of the early Eocene Whitephippus (Teleostei, Lampriformes) documents parallel conquests of the pelagic environment by multiple teleost …

D Davesne, JV Andrews, HT Beckett… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The early Eocene fossil assemblage of the London Clay (Southeastern England) is a key
window to the early Paleogene diversification of teleost fishes in the open ocean. Despite …