Freshwater Fishes of Mexico

Name: Freshwater Fishes of Mexico
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ISBN: 9780226526041

ISBN-10: 0226526046

ISBN-13: 9780226526041

Edition: 2006

Authors: Robert Rush Miller, W. L. Minckley, Steven Mark Norris, W. L. Minckley

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Though Mexico is only one-fifth the size of the continental United States, it is home to nearly two-thirds as many freshwater fishes as those that swim the waters of the United States and Canada combined. Mexico's diverse freshwater fauna can be attributed to the country's highly varied physical geography, a wide latitudinal range, the largest river system in middle America, and, ironically, its oceans--many marine groups left the brine for the inland springs and never returned to the sea. No one knew these Mexican freshwaters or the fish that inhabit them better than the late world-renowned ichthyologist Robert Rush Miller. A pioneer of the field, Miller undertook his first field…

Book details

List price: $110.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 3/15/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 652
Size: 8.50" wide x 11.00" long x 1.40" tall
Weight: 3.938



Foreword



Prefacio



Foreword



Prefacio



Preface


Acknowledgments



Introduction



Environments of Mexico


Geography and Geology


Climate and Hydrography


Biotic Provinces



Historical Ichthyogeography



Subcontinental Patterns


Ichthyofauna Provinces



History of Mexican Freshwater Ichthyology



Early Contributors


Contributors from Abroad


Mexican Contributors


Freshwater Fishes of Mexico



Extirpation, Extinction, and Conservation




The Fishes


Scientific and Common Names


Keys to Families of Mexican Freshwater Fishes


Accounts of Species (numbered following Nelson 1994)


2. Family Petromyzontidae


20. Family Carcharhinidae


36. Family Pristidae


53. Family Acipenseridae


55. Family Lepisosteidae


63. Family Elopidae


68. Family Anguillidae


88. Family Engraulidae


91. Family Clupeidae


96. Family Cyprinidae


98. Family Catostomidae


110. Family Characidae


112. Family Ictaluridae


128. Family Ariidae


134. Family Pimelodidae


149. Family Gymnotidae


189. Family Salmonidae


200. Family Bythitidae


215. Family Batrachoididae


232. Family Mugilidae


236. Family Atherinopsidae


242. Family Belonidae


245. Family Hemiramphidae


Family Rivulidae


250. Family Anablepidae


251. Family Poeciliidae


252. Family Goodeidae


253. Family Cyprinodontidae


278. Family Gasterosteidae


281. Family Syngnathidae


287. Family Synbranchidae


306. Family Cottidae


315. Family Centropomidae


330. Family Centrarchidae


331. Family Percidae


344. Family Carangidae


350. Family Lutjanidae


352. Family Gerreidae


353. Family Haemulidae


360. Family Sciaenidae


387. Family Cichlidae


421. Family Dactyloscopidae


427. Family Gobiesocidae


432. Family Eleotridae


433. Family Gobiidae


468. Family Paralichthyidae


471. Family Achiridae



Original Descriptions and Type Localities for Native, Inland, Mexican Fishes


Glossary, Abbreviations, and Acronyms


Literature Cited


Authors and Contributors


Scientific Names Index


Author Index


Subject Index