Britain's Freshwater Fishes / / Mark Everard.
Britain hosts a diversity of freshwater environments, from torrential hill streams and lowland rivers to lakes and reservoirs, ponds and canals, and ditches and estuaries. Britain's Freshwater Fishes covers more than 50 species of freshwater and brackish fish found in these waters. This beautif...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Britain's Wildlife ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (144 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Life-cycles of British freshwater fishes
- Life-cycles of British freshwater fishes
- How to identify fishes
- The types of fishes
- Glossary and technical terms
- Salmon watching
- The species accounts
- Introduction to the species accounts
- Carp and minnow family
- Salmon, trout, charr, freshwater whitefish and grayling family
- Pike family (Esocidae)
- Perch family (Percidae)
- Sheatfish catfish family (Siluridae)
- North American freshwater catfish family (Ictaluridae)
- Sunfish family (Centrarchidae)
- River loach (or hillstream loach) family (Balitoridae)
- Loach family (Cobitidae)
- Sculpin family (Cottidae)
- Sturgeon family (Acipenseridae)
- Hake and burbot family (Lotidae)
- Herring, shad, sardine and menhaden family (Clupeidae)
- Stickleback and tubesnout family (Gasterosteidae)
- Freshwater eel family (Anguillidae)
- Lamprey family (Petromyzontidae)
- Marine visitors
- Silversides family (Atherinidae)
- Smelt family (Osmeridae)
- Righteye flounder family (Pleuronectidae)
- Temperate bass family (Moronidae)
- Mullet family (Mugilidae)
- Fishy fantasies
- Conservation and legislation
- Further reading
- Acknowledgements and photographic credits
- Index