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The first comprehensive field guide to freshwater fishes - covers all 790 species known in the United States and Canada. More than 700 illustrations, most in color, show identifying marks. Also includes 377 distribution maps and additional drawings of key details.
About the Author
Eugene C. Beckham is a contributor for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt titles including: Peterson Field Guides: Freshwater Fishes.
Craig Wayne Ronto is a contributor for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt titles including: Peterson Field Guides: Freshwater Fishes.
John P. Sherrod is a contributor for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt titles including: Peterson Field Guides: Freshwater Fishes.
Roger Tory Peterson (August 28, 1908 – July 28, 1996), was an American naturalist, ornithologist, artist, and educator, and held to be one of the founding inspirations for the 20th century environmental movement.
Peterson was born in Jamestown, New York. After graduating from high school‚ Peterson moved to New York City‚ where he attended the Art Students League (1927-1928) and the National Academy of Design (1929-1931). He then taught science and art at the Rivers School in Brookline, Massachusetts. In 1934 he published his seminal Guide to the Birds, the first modern field guide, which sold out its first printing of 2‚000 copies in one week, and subsequently went through 5 editions. He co-wrote Wild America with James Fisher, and edited or wrote many of the volumes in the Peterson Field Guide series on topics ranging from rocks and minerals to beetles to reptiles. He developed the Peterson Identification System, and is known for the clarity of both his illustrations of field guides and his delineation of relevant field marks.
After leaving Greenville College in 1971, I spent five years at the University of Illinois pursuing graduate degrees in Zoology. In 1977 I moved to Carbondale and have spent my entire professional career in the Department of Zoology at Southern Illinois University. I am married to Ingrid Hansen, an artist, and we have an 11-year-old son, Jordan, who enjoys playing the piano and working at Tae-Kwan-Do. We attend the Grace United Methodist Church in Carbondale where I am a Trustee and substitute Sunday School Teacher.
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A distributional atlas of Kentucky fishes. Kentucky Nature Preserves Commission Scientific and Technical Series No. 4.
A field guide to freshwater fishes, North America north of Mexico. Peterson Field Guide Series.
The first comprehensive field guide to freshwater fishes - covers all 790 species known in the United States and Canada. More than 700 illustrations, most in color, show identifying marks. Also includes 377 distribution maps and additional drawings of key details.
About the Author
Eugene C. Beckham is a contributor for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt titles including: Peterson Field Guides: Freshwater Fishes.
Craig Wayne Ronto is a contributor for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt titles including: Peterson Field Guides: Freshwater Fishes.
John P. Sherrod is a contributor for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt titles including: Peterson Field Guides: Freshwater Fishes.
Roger Tory Peterson (August 28, 1908 – July 28, 1996), was an American naturalist, ornithologist, artist, and educator, and held to be one of the founding inspirations for the 20th century environmental movement.
Peterson was born in Jamestown, New York. After graduating from high school‚ Peterson moved to New York City‚ where he attended the Art Students League (1927-1928) and the National Academy of Design (1929-1931). He then taught science and art at the Rivers School in Brookline, Massachusetts. In 1934 he published his seminal Guide to the Birds, the first modern field guide, which sold out its first printing of 2‚000 copies in one week, and subsequently went through 5 editions. He co-wrote Wild America with James Fisher, and edited or wrote many of the volumes in the Peterson Field Guide series on topics ranging from rocks and minerals to beetles to reptiles. He developed the Peterson Identification System, and is known for the clarity of both his illustrations of field guides and his delineation of relevant field marks.
Peterson received every major American award for natural science, ornithology, and conservation, as well as numerous honorary medals, diplomas, and citations from America and elewhere, including the United States Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Order of the Golden Ark of the Netherlands. He died in 1996 at his home in Old Lyme, Connecticut. The Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History in Jamestown, New York is named in his honor.
Lawrence M. Page. Ichthyologist and Principal Scientist
Center for Biodiversity, Illinois Natural History Survey. He is known for Peterson Field Guides: Freshwater Fishes, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
After leaving Greenville College in 1971, I spent five years at the University of Illinois pursuing graduate degrees in Zoology. In 1977 I moved to Carbondale and have spent my entire professional career in the Department of Zoology at Southern Illinois University. I am married to Ingrid Hansen, an artist, and we have an 11-year-old son, Jordan, who enjoys playing the piano and working at Tae-Kwan-Do. We attend the Grace United Methodist Church in Carbondale where I am a Trustee and substitute Sunday School Teacher.
Works:
A distributional atlas of Kentucky fishes. Kentucky Nature Preserves Commission Scientific and Technical Series No. 4.
A field guide to freshwater fishes, North America north of Mexico. Peterson Field Guide Series.
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Primitive, eel-like fishes that lack jaws, scales, paired fins, and bone. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Great Lakes, Gulf Slope, Rio Grande, Atlantic Slope, Mobile Bay, Hudson Bay, North America, Coastal Plain, Fall Line, Cape Fear, Former Mississippi Embayment, Gulf Coast, Lake Erie, Lake Ontario, Lake Michigan, South America, Atlantic Coast, Bear Lake, Gulf Darter, Mottled Sculpin, Sacramento-San Joaquin, Tahoe Sucker, Central Stoneroller, Creek Chub, Edwards Plateau New!
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Primitive, eel-like fishes that lack jaws, scales, paired fins, and bone. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Great Lakes, Gulf Slope, Rio Grande, Atlantic Slope, Mobile Bay, Hudson Bay, North America, Coastal Plain, Fall Line, Cape Fear, Former Mississippi Embayment, Gulf Coast, Lake Erie, Lake Ontario, Lake Michigan, South America, Atlantic Coast, Bear Lake, Gulf Darter, Mottled Sculpin, Sacramento-San Joaquin, Tahoe Sucker, Central Stoneroller, Creek Chub, Edwards Plateau New!
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- Handbook of Darters by Lawrence M. Page in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Fishes: An Introduction to Ichthyology (5th Edition) by Peter B. Moyle in Back Matter
- A Field Guide to the Birds of the West Indies (Peterson Field Guide Series) by James Bond in Front Matter
- A Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians (Peterson Field Guide Series) by Robert C. Stebbins in Front Matter
- Pacific States (First Book) by Don Lawson in Front Matter
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- West Coast Seafood: The Complete Cookbook by Jay Harlow in Back Matter
- Currier's Quick and Easy Guide to Warmwater Fly Fishing by Jeff Currier in Back Matter
- Freshwater Life (Science Nature Guides) by Susan McKeever in Index
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