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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     Table of Contents         Discover more across the Smithsonian     Freshwater fishes     Freshwater fishes     Freshwater fishes     Fishes     Fishes     Fishes     Field guides.     Sleen, Peter van der,     Albert, James S.,       MARC Display

Field guide to the fishes of the Amazon, Orinoco & Guianas / / edited by Peter van der Sleen and James S. Albert ; principal illustrator, Peter van der Sleen.   Title:  Field guide to the fishes of the Amazon, Orinoco & Guianas / / edited by Peter van der Sleen and James S. Albert ; principal illustrator, Peter van der Sleen. Publisher:  Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2018] Copyright:  ©2018 Description:  464 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 cm Summary:  "The Amazon and Orinoco basins in northern South America are home to the highest concentration of freshwater fish species on earth, with more than 3,000 species allotted to 564 genera. Amazonian fishes include piranhas, electric eels, freshwater stingrays, a myriad of beautiful small-bodied tetras and catfishes, and the largest scaled freshwater fish in the world, the pirarucu. Field guide to the fishes of the Amazon, Orinoco, and Guianas provides descriptions and identification keys for all the known genera of fishes that inhabit Greater Amazonia, a vast and still mostly remote region of tropical rainforests, seasonally flooded savannas, and meandering lowland rivers"--Back cover. Bibliography Note:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-458) and index. Local Note:  FISH copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Purchased from the Bruce Collette Endowment for the Fishes Collection. Subject:  Freshwater fishes -- Amazon River Region -- Identification. Freshwater fishes -- Orinoco River Valley (Venezuela and Colombia) -- Identification. Freshwater fishes -- Guiana -- Identification. Fishes -- Amazon River -- Identification. Fishes -- Orinoco River (Venezuela and Colombia) -- Identification. Fishes -- Guiana -- Identification. Genre:  Field guides. Added Author:  Sleen, Peter van der, editor, illustrator. Albert, James S., editor. Added Title:  Field guide to the fishes of the Amazon, Orinoco and Guianas Fishes of the Amazon, Orinoco & Guianas Fishes of the Amazon, Orinoco and Guianas Catalog Source No.:  (OCoLC)on1021861120 ISBN:  9780691170749 0691170746 Copy/Holding information Call No. Collection Barcode Status   QL632.A45 F54 2018 Fishes 39088018993402 Checked In Request Copy Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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