Encyclopedia of Fishes

Name: Encyclopedia of Fishes
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ISBN: 9780125476652

ISBN-10: 0125476655

ISBN-13: 9780125476652

Edition: 2nd 1998

Authors: John R. Paxton, William N. Eschmeyer, David Kirshner

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With more than 20,000 species, fishes make up by far the largest group of vertebrates, and have existed for longer than any of the other groups. This book provides a colour encyclopedia of fishes.

Book details

List price: $41.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology Books
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 9.75" wide x 12.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 3.432
Language: English



Foreword


The World of Fishes


Introducing Fishes


Classifying Fishes


Fishes through the Ages


Habitats and Adaptions


Fish Behavior


Endangered Species


Kinds of Fishes


Jawless Fishes


Sharks, Rays, and Chimaeras


Lungfishes and Coelacanth


Bichirs and their Allies


Bonytongues and their Allies


Eels and their Allies


Sardines and their Allies


Carps and their Allies


Characins and their Allies


Catfishes and Knifefishes


Salmons and their Allies


Dragonfishes and their Allies


Lizardfishes and their Allies


Lanternfishes


Troutperches and their Allies


Codfishes and their Allies


Cuskeels and their Allies


Toadfishes


Anglerfishes


Clingfishes


Flyingfishes and their Allies


Killifishes and Ricefishes


Silversides and their Allies


Oarfishes and their Allies


Squirrelfishes and their Allies


Dories and their Allies


Pipefishes and their Allies


Swampeels


Scorpionfishes and their Allies


Perches and their Allies


Groupers, Seabasses, and their Allies


Cichlids


Damselfishes


Wrasses and Parrotfishes


Blennies


Flatfishes


Triggerfishes and their Allies


Index


Acknowledgments