Edited by Gerhard von der Emde, Joachim Mogdans and B. G. Kapoor Narosa Publishing House (2004) pp. 377. ISBN 81-7319-515-3 (hbk)US$140, £95
All animals face the challenge of representing their surroundings in order to behave appropriately and survive the dangers of the outside world. Constraints posed by different environments result in different evolutionary solutions to this problem. The Senses of Fish: Adaptations for the Reception of Natural Stimuli, edited by von der Emde, Mogdans and Kapoor,reviews adaptations observed in six of the senses that enable fish to perceive the world around them: vision, olfaction, taste, audition, lateral line and electroreception. The book illustrates how members of the largest vertebrate class modify their sensory organs in order to receive the most informative signals from the widely diverse habitats that fish occupy.
The first two chapters of The Senses of Fish deal with fish vision. In a comprehensive and very well...
