National Audubon Society Field Guide to Fishes: North America

902 Pages·2002·168.693 MB·English

by  National Audubon Society

NATIONAL
AUDUBON
SOCIETY
FIELD GUIDE TO
FISHES
Completely Revised All New Photography
•
NORTH AMERICA
Boston Public
Boston, MAOZTi®
U.S.A. $19.95
Canada $29.95 NT
Completely Revised
All New Photography
Covering both freshwater and saltwater
species, this fully revised edition brings a
new level of accuracy and usefulness to the
original fishes field guide published over 20
years ago.
Over 700 new full-color photographs,
286 black-and-white illustrations, and
637 maps combine to make this book the
most comprehensive field guide available
to the fishes of North America.

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ational Audubon Society"
Field Guide to Fishes
A Chanticleer Press Edition
National Audubon Society®
Field Guide Fishes
to
Revised Edition
North America
Saltwater Fishes
Carter R. Gilbert
Curator Emeritus of Fishes
Florida Museum of Natural History
Freshwater Fishes
James D. Williams
Research Associate
Florida Museum of Natural History
Alfred A. Knopf, New York
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Published November 1983
Second edition, fully revised, April 2002
Second printing, February 2005
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Number-
2002020773
ISBN: 0-375-41224-7
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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
13 Introduction
14 Biology of Fishes
26 Organization of the Guide
30 Notes from the Authors
COLOR PLATES
C-l Organization of the Color Plates
C-2 How to Identify Fishes
C-3 How to Use This Guide
C-6 Habitats
1—24 Habitat Plates
C-l3 Family Key
C-34 Thumb Tab Key
Freshwater Fishes
Plate number
25-38 Elongate fishes with long snouts
39-46 Eel-like fishes
47-66 Catfishes
67-86 Trouts and salmons
87-89 Flatfishes
90-125 Sunfishes and perch-like fishes
126-233 Shads, suckers, carps, and
minnow-like fishes
234-236 Cavefishes
237-264 Killifish-like fishes
265-266 Sticklebacks
267-304 Darters
Saltwater Fishes
Plate number
305-322 Skates and ray-like fishes
323—340 Flatfishes
341—366 Puffers, boxfishes, and fishes
with “lures”
367-390 Disk-shaped fishes
391-398 Killifish-like fishes
399 Sticklebacks
400-418 Parrotfishes and wrasses
419-476 Spiny-rayed fishes -
477-484 Elongate fishes with long snouts
483-500 Eel-like fishes
501-541 Fishes with long dorsal fans
542-581 Drum-like fishes, cods, trouts,
and salmons
582-583 Catfishes
584-634 Bass-like fishes, grunts, and snappers
635—696 Spindle-shaped fishes and robust fishes
697-720 Sharks and shark-like fishes
SPECIES ACCOUNTS.
33 Jawless Fishes
81 Ray-finned Fishes
APPENDICES
380 Glossary
587 Photo Credits
590 Index