Freshwater Fish Distribution - Hardcover

Berra, Tim M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0120931567 ISBN 13: 9780120931569

Publisher: Academic Press, 2001

Synopsis

This book clearly identifies nearly 170 families of fishes through the use of high-quality illustrations and includes an accurate account of selected members of that particular fish family, as well as a distribution map and accompanying commentary on classification, distribution, and diversity.

Key Features
* High-quality illustrations of representatives from each family
* Distribution map provided for each family
* Commentary for each family

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Fish occupy virtually every lake, stream, pond, river, creek, and tributary known. Because of their global distribution and their sensitivity to pollution and other sorts of disturbance, fish are excellent indicators of aquatic environmental health. Freshwater Fish Distribution includes details of the classification, identification, and distribution of nearly 170 families of fish. Each account includes an accurate and high-quality illustration of selected members of that group as well as a distribution map and accompanying commentary on classification, distribution, and diversity.

Key Features
* High-quality illustrations of representatives from each family
* Distribution map provided for each family
* Commentary for each family

Praise for the Book
"...an excellent guide to the distribution of fishes in fresh waters. . . . an informative text . . . highly recommended [for] all those interested in fish, including students and professionals."
Joseph S. Nelson, University of Alberta

". . . vast improvement . . . filled with just those nuggets of information that every professor will want to pass on to their student. . . . reflect[s] the major changes in classification that have taken place over the last 20 years."
Bruce B. Collette, National Museum of Natural History

". . . of critical importance to anyone interested in fishes and biogeography."
Gene Helfman, University of Georgia

About the Author:

Tim M. Berra received his B.S. in biology from St. Louis University, Missouri. He earned a M.S. and Ph.D. in biology from Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was awarded a Fulbright Post-doctoral Fellowship to the Australian National University in Canberra in 1969-1970; in 1971 he joined the faculty of the University of Papua New Guinea in Port Moresby. He joined the Department of Zoology at Ohio State University reaching the rank of Full Professor in 1985. Berra received a Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship to Monash University in 1979, and he has returned to Australia in 1986 and 1988-1989 as Research Associate at the Western Australian Museum in Perth. He has also done field work in Chile and New Zealand. Berra is the author of more than 50 papers in scientific journals and three books. He is the ichthyological book review editor of Copeia, the journal of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, and is former Editor-in-Chief of The Ohio Journal of Science. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Columbus Zoo and the zoo's Conservation and Collection Management Committee. In July 1995, Berra took early retirement from the Ohio State University where he is now Professor Emeritus in order to devote full time to research, writing, and photography.

About this edition

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0120931567
• ISBN 13: 9780120931569
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 604