Fishes are not identified by photographs alone, nor can anyone make an absolute
identification on a
Fish without the fish''s body at hand.
There are about 25,000-40,000 different kind of
Fishes in the world. This includes species and subspecies, but not color varieties developed by man. That''s a lot of fishes, and unless a strict system of identification had been set up there would be lots of confusion.
This
book was created with the express purpose of making the identification of fishes easier for the scientist,
pet dealer and hobbyist. It attempts to srandardized as much as possible, the common names applied to those fishes in the English-speaking world, especially as this applies to those fishes that are so similar in size, shape and form that they cannot even be distinguished readily by an ichtyologist.
A must have book for tropical fish lovers, pet shop owners, or even an importer/exporter and scientist related to fishery field.
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