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Lanham, Url. The Fishes.

Title
The Fishes
Author
Lanham, Url N.
Publisher
Columbia University Press, New York
Year
1967 (original 1962)
ISBN
0231085818 (Paperback)
Illustrations
(black & white photos, line drawings)
Table of Contents
Contents
Bibliography
none
Index
Index
Pages
116
Categories
ichthyology, fish, biology, science, nature
Language
English (en)
The Fishes
From the Book Cover
"This is a highly readable guide to the principle fish families of the world.... It is aimed at the general reader rather than the ichthyologist, and offers a great many picturesque facts about fish, large and small. Professor Lanham bears his learning so gracefully that I wish the book had been twice as long as it is. Here the reader will come on such gee-whiz facts as that fish are not, as commonly supposed, color-blind.... Did you know, too, that the archer fish, found in the Orient, can knock its insect prey off streamside by firing a drop of water from its mouth at lightning speed? The book is illustrated with an extensive album of photographs."
—Saturday Review
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