Fishes of the Gulf of Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, and Adjacent WatersAn identification guide to 500 species of fishes found in the Gulf of Mexico along the Texas and Louisiana coasts. |
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Identifying Fishes 233 | 23 |
Keys to the Families | 97 |
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Fishes of the Gulf of Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, and Adjacent Waters H. Dickson Hoese,Richard H. Moore No preview available - 1998 |
Common terms and phrases
adults anal fins anal rays bars bays Bermuda black spot blenny blotches blue body silvery Bright and Cashman brown Caribbean to Brazil catfish caudal fin caudal peduncle coast color common dark spot dorsal and anal dorsal fin dorsal rays Dorsal spines dusky elongate fathoms feet filefish finlets fish Florida flounder flyingfish genus gill opening gill rakers Ginsburg goby grouper Gulf of Mexico Hoese inches inshore juveniles lateral line lateral-line scales Linnaeus lobe Louisiana lower jaw lower limb margin Massachusetts North Carolina northern Gulf northwestern Gulf occur ocular side offshore reefs opercle pectoral fin pectoral rays pelvic fins percent of standard pipefish Poey posterior preopercle rarely sea robin second dorsal shark shelf sides of body snapper snout soft dorsal southern Texas species spinous dorsal standard length stripes tail teeth tropical upper jaw ventral fins vertical western Atlantic yellow