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Britain hosts a diversity of freshwater environments, from torrential hill streams and lowland rivers to lakes and reservoirs, ponds and canals, and ditches and estuaries. Britain's Freshwater Fishes covers more than 50 species of freshwater and brackish fish found in these waters. This beautif...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Everard, Mark
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2013.
Colección:WildGuides.
Temas:
Freshwater fishes > Great Britain.
Poissons d'eau douce > Grande-Bretagne.
NATURE > Animals > Fish.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Zoology > Ichthyology & Herpetology.
Freshwater fishes.
Great Britain.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Life-cycles of British freshwater fishes; Habitats for freshwater fishes; How to identify fishes; The types of fishes; Glossary and technical terms; Salmon watching; THE SPECIES ACCOUNTS: Introduction to the species accounts; Carp and minnow family (Cyprinidae); Rudd Scardinius erythrophthalmus; Roach Rutilus rutilus; Orfe Leuciscus idus; Chub Squalius cephalus; Dace Leuciscus leuciscus; Common Bream Abramis brama; Silver Bream Blicca bjoerkna; Barbel Barbus barbus; Tench Tinca tinca; Crucian Carp Carassius carassius; Goldfish Carassius auratus
  • Common Carp Cyprinus carpioGrass Carp Ctenopharygodon idella; Gudgeon Gobio gobio; Minnow Phoxinus phoxinus; Bleak Alburnus alburnus; Sunbleak Leucaspius delineatus; Topmouth Gudgeon Pseudorasbora parva; Bitterling Rhodeus sericeus; Salmon, trout, charr, freshwater whitefish and grayling family (Salmonidae); Atlantic Salmon Salmo salar; Brown Trout / Sea Trout Salmo trutta; Rainbow Trout Oncorhynchus mykiss; Grayling Thymallus thymallus; Arctic Charr Salvelinus alpinus; European Whitefish (Pollan/Powan/Schelly/Gwyniad) Coregonus lavaretus; Vendace Coregonus albula; Pike family (Esocidae)
  • Pike Esox luciusPerch family (Percidae); Perch Perca fluviatilis; Ruffe Gymnocephalus cernua; Zander Sander lucioperca; Sheatfish catfish family (Siluridae); Wels Catfish Siluris glanis; North American freshwater catfish family (Ictaluridae); Black Bullhead Ameiurus melas; Sunfish family (Centrarchidae); Pumpkinseed Sunfish Lepomis gibbosus; River loach (or hillstream loach) family (Balitoridae); Stone Loach Nemacheilus barbatulus; Loach family (Cobitidae); Spined Loach Cobitis taenia; Sculpin family (Cottidae); Bullhead Cottus gobio; Sturgeon family (Acipenseridae)
  • Common Sturgeon Acipenser sturioHake and burbot family (Lotidae); Burbot Lota lota; Herring, shad, sardine and menhaden family (Clupeidae); Allis Shad Alosa alosa; Twaite Shad Alosa fallax; Stickleback and tubesnout family (Gasterosteidae); Three-spined Stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus; Ten-spined Stickleback Pungitius pungitius; Freshwater eel family (Anguillidae); European Eel Anguilla anguilla; Lamprey family (Petromyzontidae); Brook Lamprey Lampetra planeri; River Lamprey Lampetra fluviatilis; Sea Lamprey Petromyzon marinus; Marine visitors; Silversides family (Atherinidae)
  • Sand-smelt Atherina presbyterSmelt family (Osmeridae); Smelt Osmerus eperlanus; Righteye flounder family (Pleuronectidae); Flounder Platichthys flesus; Temperate bass family (Moronidae); European Seabass Dicentrarchus labrax; Mullet family (Mugilidae); Golden Grey Mullet Liza aurata; Thin-lipped Grey Mullet Liza ramada; Thick-lipped Grey Mullet Chelon labrosus; Fishy fantasies; Conservation and legislation; Further reading and useful contacts; Acknowledgements and photographic credits; Index

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