National Audubon Society Field Guide to Fishes: North America PDF
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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. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2017 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/nationalaudubons00nati_1 _ 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 This is a Borzoi Book Published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Copyright © 2002 by Chanticleer Press, Inc. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Distributed by Random House, Inc., New York. www.randomhouse.com Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc. Prepared and produced by Chanticleer Press, Inc., New York. Printed and bound by Toppan Printing Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan.. 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 National Nudubon Society® is a registered trademark of National Audubon Society, Inc., ail rights reserved. 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
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