Cyprinid Fishes

1 Systematics and biogeography: an overview.- 2 The fossil record of the Cyprinidae.- 3 Morphometric investigations in cyprinid biology.- 4 Molecular and cytological investigations.- 5 Cyprinids of Eurasia.- 6 Cyprinids of South East Asia.- 7 Cyprinids of Africa.- 8 Cyprinids of the New World.- 9 Cyprinids of Australasia.- 10 Brain and sensory systems.- 11 Acoustico-lateralis system.- 12 Diets and feeding behavior.- 13 Food capture and oral processing.- 14 Digestion.- 15 Physiological energetics and ecophysiology.- 16 Growth and production.- 17 Reproduction and life history.- 18 Social behaviour, homing and migration.- 19 Interspecific interactions.- 20 The role of cyprinids in ecosystems.- 21 Fisheries.- 22 Aquaculture.- Author index.- Taxonomic index.