The highly anticipated second volume of Freshwater Fishes of North
America, a monumental, fully illustrated reference that provides
comprehensive details on the freshwater fishes of the United States,
Canada, and Mexico.
When the first volume of Freshwater Fishes of North America was
published, it was immediately hailed as the definitive reference in the
field. Readers have been fervently awaiting the next volume in this
encompassing three-book set ever since. Now complete, volume 2, covering
families Characidae to Poeciliidae, is the result of decades of analysis
by leading fish experts from universities and research laboratories
across North America.
Each volume in this authoritative synthesis covers the ecology,
morphology, reproduction, distribution, behavior, taxonomy,
conservation, and the fossil record of the included North American fish
families. The encyclopedic reviews of each family are accompanied by
color photographs (nearly 250 in this volume alone), range maps, and
artwork created by noted fish illustrator Joseph R. Tomelleri. The
result is a rich textual and visual experience that covers everything
known about the diversity, natural history, ecology, and biology of
North American freshwater fishes.
Volume 2 covers the following North American families of fishes:
Characidae (Characins)
Ictaluridae (North American Catfishes)
Ariidae (Sea Catfishes)
Heptapteridae (Three-barbeled Catfishes)
Osmeridae (Smelts)
Esociformes (Esocidae, Pikes and Umbridae, Mudminnows)
Percopsidae (Trout-perches)
Amblyopsidae (Cavefishes)
Aphredoderidae (Pirate Perches)
Gadidae (Cods and Cuskfishes)
Mugilidae (Mullets)
Atherinopsidae (New World Silversides)
Beloniformes (Needlefishes and Halfbeaks)
Rivulidae (New World Rivulines)
Profundulidae (Middle American Killifishes)
Goodeidae (Goodeids)
Fundulidae (Topminnows)
Cyprinodontidae (Pupfishes)
Poeciliidae (Livebearers)
The chapter authors of Volume 2 are:
Gianetta Adams
Clyde Barbour
Micah Bennett
Ricardo Bentancur-R.
Peter B. Z. Berendzen
Brooks M. Burr
Mollie Cashner
Robert C. Cashner
Bruce B. Collette
Matthew Davis
Alice F. Echelle
Anthony A. Echelle
Fernando Galvez
Michael Ghedotti
Nicholas Gidmark
Terry Grande
Robert L. Hopkins
Lauren M. Kuehne
Frank McCormick
Norman Mercado-Silva
Ann U. O'Connell
Martin T. O'Connell
Julian D. Olden
Claudia Patricia Ornelas-Garcia
Mark Sabaj Perez
Kyle R. Piller
Steven Powers
Jacob Schaefer
Juan J. Schmitter-Soto
Andrew M. Simons
Roger A. Tabor
Cheryl Thiele
Matthew Thomas
Melvin L. Warren, Jr.
Mark V. H. Wilson
