Fishes: The Animal Answer Guide

by Bruce Collette and Gene Helfman

Book Overview

One fish, two fish, red fish, nearly thirty thousand species of fish--or fishes, as they are properly called when speaking of multiple species. This is but one of many things the authors of this fascinatingly informative book reveal in answering common and not-so-common questions about this ubiquitous group of animals.

Fishes range in size from tiny gobies to the massive Ocean Sunfish, which weighs thousands of pounds. They live in just about...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 142140222X
• ISBN13: 9781421402222
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.2" x 10.0"
• Age Range: 14 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 9 to 12