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The present thesis deals with the related themes of mortality and growth in coral reef fishes. In the first chapter, a nine-year dataset from Bermuda is used to quantify how reef fish populations respond to the introduction of a trap-fishing ban, finding that herbivores exhibit …

The Cenomanian (early Late Cretaceous) Bahariya Formation of Egypt preserves a diverse fauna of marine and freshwater fishes. Fish remains recovered from this formation at Bahariya Oasis include a very large polypterid and a very large mawsoniid coelacanth. Generic identity of t…