This authoritative work by an accepted expert is the first major book on this subject written by a scientist and available in English. It is at once a practical guide and a recognised work of reference, dealing with the identification, biology and care of no fewer than 1300 species, the vast majority of which are illustrated. Thus it easily exceeds in comprehensiveness the scope of any other comparable English language work. It not only includes species and genera - even whole families and orders - not mentioned elsewhere, but also deals with the groups from temperature climates, the supposedly uninteresting uglies and the larger species to which there is no other handy guide. Here is a gallery of fish portraits more extensive than that available in any comparable book. The 1193 illustrations consist of 102 colour photographs, 423 black-and-white photographs and 668 line drawings. Hardcover, 878 pages, 25cm x 17cm.
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