ABSTRACT
In the last decades numerous electron microscopic investigations were carried out on fish taste buds (TBs). The studied species belong to almost all fish taxa, such as Elasmobranchii (Chondrichthyes; Whitear and Moate, 1994 a,b; Reutter, 1994), Dipnoi (Reutter, 1991), neopterygian Semionotiformes and Amiiformes (Holostei; Reutter et al., 2000), Chondrostei (Pevmer, 1981), and Teleostei (for references, see Reutter and Hansen, 2005; this volume). The literature has been revised several times, most recently by Jakubowski andZuwala (2000), Kapoor and Finger (2003), Hansen and Reutter (2004) and Reutter and Hansen (2005, this volume).
