Coldwater Fishes of India: An Atlas

Nainital 2011, geb., SU., Großformat, quer, 433 Seiten, 400 Farbfotos, "This book is an attempt to provide correct images of fishes with correct nomenclatural status and systematic position of the coldwater fishes of India so as to enable instant spot identification, The prevailing, and changed concepts of fish taxonomy have led to various updating of status and validity of many fish genera and species of the region. As India is the region which has biodiversity hotspots of the world, up to date knowledge of its fish diversity, particularly of the endemic species, categorization of their threat criteria are of great importance from conservation and sustainable utilization points of view. It gives diagnostic characters of 278 species of fish belonging to 81 genera and 18 families. We have also included a few species which are not truly coldwater, but have visited coldwater regimes in certain periods of their life cycle.[...]". 59,80 ¤