Fishes: A Field and Laboratory Manual on Their Structure, Identification and Natural History

This comprehensive, geographically balanced manual offers readers complete hands-on coverage of morphology, identification, classification, physiological adaptations, and natural history. The book’s taxonomic and geographic coverage is impressively broad as well, applying to a variety of fishes and areas: jawless, cartilaginous, and bony; fresh- and saltwater; temperate and tropical; and inshore and offshore. Helpful discussions and explanations introduce the guidebook’s collection of well-designed exercises, making the connections between principles and specific inquiries easier to formulate. This approach works to help students transform memorized facts into concepts that stimulate further explorations.