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
Acknowledgments | 1 |
Scope of This Book | 7 |
Key to the Orders of Chesapeake Bay Fishes | 17 |
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absent abundant anal fin arch areas Atlantic bars bottom brown catch caudal fin CHARACTERISTICS Body Chesapeake Bay cm TL coast coastal common compressed comprises crustaceans deep depths disk dusky ECOLOGY elongate enter extending feed females FIGURE fin base Fischer fishery FISHING INTEREST Florida forked freshwater GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION gill Gulf of Mexico head Hildebrand and Schroeder importance inhabit KEY FEATURES known late lateral line length LITERATURE Hildebrand located males margin Maximum adult moderately mouth Musick nearly nets northern numbering occasionally occurs offshore origin pale pectoral fin pelvic fin PLATE pointed portion posterior present primarily rare recorded recreational River rounded rows salinities scales second dorsal fin shallow sharks short side silvery slightly Smith snout soft rays spawning species spines spring striped summer surface tail teeth typically upper jaw usually ventral visitor waters winter
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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