Life of Fishes

The most diverse of the animals with backbones, some 20,000 species of fish exist within a variety of aquatic habitats. This book focuses on their amazing adaptability to rivers, lakes and oceans. The first portion deals with their day-to-day adult life. The second is devoted to the fish's early life. The remainder details with how fish survive in diverse kinds of aquatic environments. Their diversity and abundance directly correlating to the nature and productivity of their living space.

Science & Math

Marshall, N.B.

Nature & Ecology

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

Exploring what he considers to be the outstanding aspects of fish biology, Mr. Marshall surveys the present knowledge in the field and suggests possibilities for future investigation. 
 He considers the causes of the overwhelming predominance of the teleost fishes, discusses the biology of deep-sea fishes, and studies such aspects of dynamic design as body form, fin pattern, muscular organization, and certain neural features in relation to movement and water. 
 His last chapter, on convergent evolution, deals with convergences among fishes as well as with convergences among fishes and invertebrates, particularly crustaceans and cephalopods. 
 The volume is illustrated with a chart on evolutionary relationships of fishes and over fifty line drawings.

Explorations in the Life of Fishes (Harvard Books in Biology, No. 7)

Biological Sciences

Harvard University Press

Universe Books

The Fishes of the Western North Atlantic series, which began publication in the 1940s by Yale University's Sears Foundation for Marine Research, was from its beginnings conceived to synthesize and make accessible the wealth of information in widely scattered published accounts of the fish fauna of the region for both the layman and the specialist, presenting critical reviews rather than compilations. These reference works are still considered valuable and of interest today to both general audiences and the academic community. As described in the Preface to the first volume, the series was "written on the premise that it should be useful to those in many walks of life--to those casually ... interested ..., to the sportsman ..., to the fisherman ..., as well as to the amateur ichthyologist and the professional scientist." These books remain authoritative studies of the anadromous, estuarine, and marine fishes of the waters of the western North Atlantic from Hudson Bay southward to the Amazon, ranking as primary references for both amateurs and professionals interested in fishes, and as significant working tools for students of the sea.

Orders Iniomi and Lyomeri: Part 5 (Fishes of the Western North Atlantic)

Gosline, William A.

Bohlke, James E.

Anderson, William W

Berry, Frederick H

Bolin, Rolf L

Gehringer, Jack W

Gibbs, Robert H.

Mead, Giles W

Rofen, Robert R

Wilimovsky, Norman J

The Yale Peabody Museum

The Fishes of the Western North Atlantic series, which began publication in the 1940s by Yale University's Sears Foundation for Marine Research, was from its beginnings conceived to synthesize and make accessible the wealth of information in widely scattered published accounts of the fish fauna of the region for both the layman and the specialist, presenting critical reviews rather than compilations. These reference works are still considered valuable and of interest today to both general audiences and the academic community. As described in the Preface to the first volume, the series was "written on the premise that it should be useful to those in many walks of life--to those casually ... interested ..., to the sportsman ..., to the fisherman ..., as well as to the amateur ichthyologist and the professional scientist." These books remain authoritative studies of the anadromous, estuarine, and marine fishes of the waters of the western North Atlantic from Hudson Bay southward to the Amazon, ranking as primary references for both amateurs and professionals interested in fishes, and as significant working tools for students of the sea.

Orders Heteromi (Notacanthiformes), Berycomorphi (Beryciformes), Xenoberyces (Stephanoberyciformes), Anacanthini (Gadiformes): Part 6 (Fishes of the Western North Atlantic)

Cohen, Daniel M.

Ebeling, Alfred W.

Woods, Loren P

Iwamoto, Tomio

McDowell, Samuel B

Rosen, Donn E

Sonoda, Pearl

Weed III, Walter H

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