Fishes: A Field and Laboratory Manual on Their Structure, Identification and Natural History

Fishes: A Field and Laboratory Manual on Their Structure, Identification and Natural History by Milton S. Love. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780881339086.

Now available from Waveland Press, this comprehensive, geographically balanced manual offers readers complete hands-on coverage of morphology, identification, and classification, physiological adaptations, and natural history. The books taxonomic and geographic coverage is impressively broad as well, applying to a variety of fishes and areas: jawless, cartilaginous, and bony, fresh- and saltwater, temperate and tropical, and inshore and offshore. Helpful discussions and explanations introduce the guidebooks collection of well-designed exercises, making the connections between principles and specific inquiries easier to formulate. This approach works to help readers transform memorized facts into concepts that stimulate further explorations.