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)

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"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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