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Fishes: The Animal Answer Guide
Gene Helfman
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Description for Fishes: The Animal Answer Guide
Paperback. With more than 100 photographs-including two full-color photo galleries-and the most up-to-date facts on the world's fishes from two premier experts, this fun book is the perfect bait for any curious naturalist, angler, or aquarist. Series: The Animal Answer Guides: Q&A for the Curious Naturalist. Num Pages: 216 pages, 118, 33 colour illustrations, 85 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: WNCS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 180 x 16. Weight in Grams: 440.
One fish, two fish, red fish, nearly thirty thousand species of fish-or fishes, as they are properly called when speaking of multiple species. This is but one of many things the authors of this fascinatingly informative book reveal in answering common and not-so-common questions about this ubiquitous group of animals. Fishes range in size from tiny gobies to the massive Ocean Sunfish, which weighs thousands of pounds. They live in just about every body of water on the planet. Ichthyologists Gene Helfman and Bruce Collette provide accurate, entertaining, and sometimes surprising answers to over 100 questions about these water ... Read more
One fish, two fish, red fish, nearly thirty thousand species of fish-or fishes, as they are properly called when speaking of multiple species. This is but one of many things the authors of this fascinatingly informative book reveal in answering common and not-so-common questions about this ubiquitous group of animals. Fishes range in size from tiny gobies to the massive Ocean Sunfish, which weighs thousands of pounds. They live in just about every body of water on the planet. Ichthyologists Gene Helfman and Bruce Collette provide accurate, entertaining, and sometimes surprising answers to over 100 questions about these water ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Series
The Animal Answer Guides: Q&A for the Curious Naturalist
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421402239
SKU
V9781421402239
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99-50
About Gene Helfman
Gene Helfman is professor emeritus in the Program in Conservation Ecology and Sustainability Development at the University of Georgia's Odum School of Ecology. A senior scientist at the National Marine Fisheries Service Systematics Laboratory, Bruce Collette has taught about the diversity of fishes at the Bermuda Biological Station and the Shoals Marine Laboratory in Maine. Helfman and Collette are two ... Read more
Reviews for Fishes: The Animal Answer Guide
"This book is fun, accessible, and informative. In the 30 years that I have been teaching ichthyology and fish ecology, I have been asked almost all of these questions. Here are all the answers in one comfortable package." (Dr. Larry G. Allen, director, Southern California Marine Institute)"