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Fishes of the Great Lakes Region, Revised Edition

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ISBN-10: 0472113712

ISBN-13: 9780472113712

Edition: 2004 (Revised)

Authors: Carl L. Hubbs, Karl F. Lagler, Gerald Ray Smith, Gerald Ray Smith, Gerald Ray Smith

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Fishes of the Great Lakes Region is the ultimate guide to Great Lakes fishes---updated, enhanced, and with new color illustrations. For everyday anglers, armchair enthusiasts, and serious students, Hubbs and Lagler's text remains the definitive work in the identification and study of the fishes of this important freshwater region. Organized by fish family, with sections on waters of the Great Lakes region, zoogeography, field study and collection, preservation of fishes for study, fish identification, anatomy, terminology, and more, Fishes of the Great Lakes Region is comprehensive in its scope and breadth of information-truly the classic book on Great Lakes fishes. The book also…    
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Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 12/8/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 332
Size: 5.50" wide x 9.25" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.518
Language: English

Carl Hubbs and Karl Lagler were influential leaders in twentieth-century ichthyology and fishery management; both broought their knowledgeof fish to the University of Michigan. Gerald R. Smith, Curator Emeritus at the University of Michigan Zoology Museum, is a leading expert in fish identification in the Great Lakes region.

Waters of the Great Lakes region and their fish associations
Zoogeography
Postglacial redispersal
Field study and collection of fishes
Preservation of fishes for study
Identification of fishes
Anatomy, terms, and methods of counting and measuring
Key to the families of Great Lakes fishes
Families and species of Great Lakes fishes, with keys and species accounts
Diagnostic shapes and pigment patterns of larvae of some species of Great Lakes fishes