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. |
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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absent abundant adipose fin anal fin anglers barbels bass Bay waters Body elongate bottom Caribbean Sea catfish caudal fin caudal peduncle CHARACTERISTICS Body Chesa Chesapeake Bay 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 goby 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 NMNH numbering offshore opercle peake Bay pectoral fin pelvic fin PLATE posterior posteriorly present rays typically River salinities scales scutes second dorsal fin shallow sharks silvery slightly snout soft rays Spawning occurs species spines spots striped summer tail upper jaw ventral ventroposterior western Atlantic