Hello Gitte,
I am running an informal (private) course in fish osteology, including basic systematics and evolution of fishes. I intend to produce a compendium on the most important orders, families and genera. It includes also disection and preparation of fishes so that all participants have their own reference specimens in the end. There are no lecturers specialized in fishes, covering all taxa from cartilaginous to teleosts fishes, at the swedish university osteology departments - I work as a freelance, trying to continue the tradition from my teacher Johannes Lepiksaar. With my own collection supplemented by Gothenburg Natural History Museum I have nearly all taxa from northern Europe, much from the Mediterranean, Indian Ocean/Pacific and also inland Africa. My course is aimed at zooarchaeologist and biologists working with diet analysis (bones and otoliths).
I give an orientation in the current development of fish systematics, archaeo-ichthyological litterature, databases with fish bone illustrations, methods of analysis, statistical programs for e.g. size estimation from bone measurements. My compendium will contain a lot of drawings (camera lucida) of bones and notes on characters useful in identification.
Leif Jonsson
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