Fishes of Chesapeake BayThe first work in nearly seventy years on Chesapeake Bay fishes, this fully illustrated handbook identifies and describes all marine, estuarine, and salinity-tolerant freshwater fishes known to frequent the Chesapeake. |
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User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictThis comprehensive treatise enables users to identify 267 species of fish found in Chesapeake Bay through a system of keys to the orders, to the families within orders, and to the species within ... Read full review
Contents
Scope of This Book | 7 |
Key to the Orders of Chesapeake Bay Fishes | 17 |
Species Accounts by Order and Family | 21 |
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Common terms and phrases
absent adipose fin anal fin barbels bottom c s Body Caribbean Sea caudal fin caudal peduncle Chesapeake Bay cm TL commercial compressed crustaceans disk dorsal and anal dorsal fin dusky Eco Lo G Y F 1's H F A M I LY F is H F1GURE feed fin origin fin typically Fischer fishery fishes Florida freshwater G E O GRAPH I C D G IN T E R E S T gill rakers Gulf of Mexico H E R CHARACTER H IN G head Hildebrand and Schroeder I C D is TRIBUT I O N juveniles KEY FEATURE lateral line lower Chesapeake Bay lower jaw Manooch margin Maximum adult Musick numbering offshore opercle pectoral fin pelvic fin PLATE posterior present RACTER RATUR E Hildebrand salinities scales scutes second dorsal fin sharks silvery snout soft rays Spawning occurs species spines spots striped U R E upper jaw ventral western Atlantic
Bibliographic information
| Title | Fishes of Chesapeake Bay |
| Authors | Edward O. Murdy, Ray S. Birdsong, John A. Musick |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | Jul 28, 2009 |
| ISBN | 1560986387, 9781560986386 |
| Length | 324 pages |
| Subjects | › Nature / General |
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