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 abundant adipose fin anal fin anglers anteriorly barbels bass Bay waters bottom Caribbean Sea catfish caudal fin caudal peduncle Chesa Chesapeake Bay cm SL cm TL compressed crustaceans disk dorsal and anal dorsal fin dusky ecology feed figure fin long fin origin fin rounded fin typically Fischer fishery fishing interest Florida forked freshwater genera geographic distribution Found geographic distribution Known gill rakers Gulf of Mexico head Hildebrand and Schroeder juveniles key features killifish known from Chesapeake lateral line Linnaeus literature Hildebrand lower Chesapeake Bay lower jaw males Manooch margin Maximum adult mouth large Musick numbering offshore opercle peake Bay pectoral fin pelvic fin plate posterior posteriorly rays typically recorded from Chesapeake River salinities scales scutes second dorsal fin shallow sharks side silvery slightly snout soft rays Spawning occurs species spines striped summer tail tropical upper jaw ventral ventroposterior 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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