title: Body cavities in fishes.
abstract: Four types of body cavity arrangement were found in 20 species of fish (see Materials and Methods). The body cavities of fishes were also compared with those of mammals and birds. It was concluded that higher vertebrates utilized only the Tinca type for their evolution, while the other types were dead-end evolutionary forms which terminated at fish level, or possibly with amphibians and reptiles. The necessary research in these groups still remains to be done.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Experimental Veterinary Medicine, Kosice.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Komárek
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Lazar
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005399:Fishes / Q000033:anatomy & histology*