Popularly called as the land of the red river and blue hills, Assam is the gateway to the northeastern part of lndia. Situated between 90-96 degree East Longitude and 24-28degree North Latitude, Assam is bordered in the North and East by the Kingdom of Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh. Along the south lies Nagaland, Manipur and Mizoram. Meghalaya lies to her South-West, Bengal and Bangladesh to her West. Renowned for its tea, wildlife and silk, Assam is a state with rich biodiversity. With its capital at Dispur, a suburb of the city Guwahati, it encompasses the Brahmaputra, the Barak river valleys, the Karbi Anglong, and the North Cachar Hills. There has been racial intermixture among the population of Assam. The Mongoloid racial stock have large number of tribes. The book is an asset for all scholars, researchers, teachers, students and of course, the general readers.
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Fish are classified in several classes by which its study becomes easier. Fish having similar properties are: contained in the same group. Various classes of fish are Thelodonti, Anaspida, Cephalaspidomorphi, Galeaspida, Pituriaspida, Osteostracy, Gnathostomata, Placodermi. jawless fish are classified under the group Thelodonti, which are very similar to Heterostraci, and are not armored. The Pituriaspida are a small group of armored jawless fish with tremendous nose-like rostrums, which live in the marine, deltaic environments of Middle Devonian Australia. Gnathostomata is the group of vertebrates with jaws. This group is in super class, including the familiar classes of fish, birds, mammals, and so for the and a sister group of jawless vertebrates Agnatha. The placodermi are armored prehistoric fish known from fossils, dating from the Late Silurian to the end of the Devonian periods. This eminent work has an exhaustive and exclusive coverage of fish in a simple, but effective style. This work would be caballero prove beneficial for all classes of readers.