Freshwater Fishes of North-eastern AustraliaIncorporating a review of existing literature and results of unpublished field research undertaken by the authors over the past 20 years, this volume represents a well-supported study of the most diverse locale for freshwater fish in all of Australia. Northeastern Australia faces an increased pace of development, which makes necessary an increased pace of environmental management. Some 130 native species in about 30 families--about half the fauna of the entire continent--are profiled in a manner sufficiently detailed for ecologists, ichthyologists, and environmental managers, yet accessible to avid fish-oriented amateurs. Each description includes taxonomy, systematics, and evolutionary history, biogeography, distribution patterns, habitat requirements, environmental tolerances, and reproductive, feeding, and movement biology. B&w drawings support the text. Distributed in the US by Antipodes Books and Beyond. Annotation: 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com). |
Contents
Eleotridae | 4 |
Key to the native and alien fishes of northeastern Australia | 14 |
Ceratodontidae | 49 |
Megalopidae | 64 |
Clupeidae | 92 |
Plotosidae | 112 |
Retropinnidae | 152 |
Belonidae | 166 |
Percichthyidae | 326 |
Terapontidae | 361 |
Kuhliidae | 401 |
Apogonidae | 409 |
Toxotidae | 419 |
Mugilidae | 426 |
Gobiidae | 434 |
prospects threats and information gaps | 575 |
Melanotaeniidae | 197 |
Pseudomugilidae | 247 |
Synbranchidae | 272 |
Scorpaenidae | 278 |
Chandidae | 284 |
Centropomidae | 313 |
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Freshwater Fishes of North-Eastern Australia Brad Pusey,Mark Kennard,Angela Arthington Limited preview - 2004 |
Common terms and phrases
abundance adult Alligator Rivers Alligator Rivers region anal fin Aquatic insects aquatic macrophytes areas ater Australia barramundi Basin biomass Brisbane River Burdekin River Burnett River Cape York Peninsula catchment caudal fin colour Craterocephalus Creek depth diet Dissolved oxygen mg.L-¹ distribution dorsal fin downstream drainages eggs estuarine fecundity females Filamentous algae fish collected fishway Fitzroy River floodplain lagoons flow forsteri freshwater graeffei gravel habitats hatching hyrtlii individuals invertebrates Johnstone River juveniles larvae length leptaspis locations lowland macrophytes males Mary River mature maximum Mean GSI Microhabitat midgleyi migration movement Murray River Neosilurus Normanby River northern number of fish pectoral populations present range recorded reinhardtii reproductive ripe Root masses sample scales sooty grunter South Wales south-eastern Queensland spawning specimens spine stercusmuscarum streams studies substrate suggested Table tandanus Terrestrial tion tolerances Turbidity Undercut banks upstream vegetation water temperatures water velocity wet season Wet Tropics region woody debris
Popular passages
Page 611 - Coates, D. 1988. Length-dependent changes in egg size and fecundity in females, and brooded embryo size in males, of fork-tailed cat fishes (Pisces: Ariidae) from the Sepik River, Papua New Guinea with some implications for stock assessments.
Page 618 - Report on several Collections of Fishes recently obtained for the British Museum.
Page 613 - Davis, TLO (1982). Maturity and sexuality in barramundi, Lates calcarifer (Bloch), in the Northern Territory and south-eastern Gulf of Carpentaria. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 33: 529-545.
Page 608 - RD 1983. Report of a large fish kill resulting from natural acid water conditions in Australia.
Page 623 - Ivantsoff, V. (1978). Taxonomic and systematic review of the Australian fish species of the family Atherinidae with references to related species of the Old World.
References to this book
Biology and Management of the World Tarpon and Bonefish Fisheries Jerald S. Ault Limited preview - 2007 |