Freshwater Fish Distribution - Hardcover

Berra, Tim M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0120931567 ISBN 13: 9780120931569

Verlag: Academic Press Inc, 2001

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This reference describes and classifies 169 families of fish that inhabit lakes and rivers, and provides representative drawings and global distribution maps. The families are organized by jawless fish, jawed fish, lungfish, and ray-finned fish. Only native ranges are shown on the maps. The book is a complete revision of An Atlas of Distribution of the Freshwater Fish Families of the World published in 1981, and reflect changes in classification since that time. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Tim M. Berra received his B.S. in biology from St. Louis University, Missouri. He earned a M.S. and Ph.D. in biology from Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was awarded a Fulbright Post-doctoral Fellowship to the Australian National University in Canberra in 1969-1970; in 1971 he joined the faculty of the University of Papua New Guinea in Port Moresby. He joined the Department of Zoology at Ohio State University reaching the rank of Full Professor in 1985. Berra received a Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship to Monash University in 1979, and he has returned to Australia in 1986 and 1988-1989 as Research Associate at the Western Australian Museum in Perth. He has also done field work in Chile and New Zealand. Berra is the author of more than 50 papers in scientific journals and three books. He is the ichthyological book review editor of Copeia, the journal of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, and is former Editor-in-Chief of The Ohio Journal of Science. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Columbus Zoo and the zoos Conservation and Collection Management Committee. In July 1995, Berra took early retirement from the Ohio State University where he is now Professor Emeritus in order to devote full time to research, writing, and photography.

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• Verlag: Academic Press Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0120931567
• ISBN 13: 9780120931569
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 604
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