National Audubon Society Field Guide to Fishes: North America

Carter Rowell Gilbert, James David Williams, National Audubon Society

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, May 21, 2002 - Nature - 607 pages

Covering both freshwater and saltwater species of fish, this fully revised edition brings a new level of accuracy and usefulness to the National Audubon Society's acclaimed field guides.

With 700 new full-color photographs, 286 black-and-white illustrations, and 637 maps, this is the most comprehensive field guide available to the fishes of North America.

•635 species covered in detail, with notes on 771 more
•723 full-color identification photographs
•286 black-and-white illustrations
•Visual organization of species photographs by shape for easy identification
•Range map for each species
•Glossary of useful terms

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Contents

• INTRODUCTION: 13
• COLOR PLATES: 32
• Freshwater Fishes: 34
• with lures: 34
• SPECIES ACCOUNTS: 34
• APPENDICES: 580

About the author

The revision authors are James D. Williams, Research Associate, Florida Museum of Natural History, and Carter R. Gilbert, Curator Emeritus of Fishes of the Florida Museum of Natural History.

Bibliographic information

• Title: National Audubon Society Field Guide to Fishes: North America; National Audubon Society Field Guides
• Authors: Carter Rowell Gilbert, James David Williams, National Audubon Society
• Editor: National Audubon Society
• Edition: 2, illustrated, revised
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2002
• Original from: the University of California
• Digitized: Jul 28, 2009
• ISBN: 0375412247, 9780375412240
• Length: 607 pages
• Subjects: Nature / Animals / Fish; Nature / Animals / Marine Life; Science / Life Sciences / Marine Biology