Freshwater Fishes of Mexico

by Steven Mark Norris, W. L. Minckley, Robert Rush Miller, et al.

Though Mexico is only one-fifth the size of the continental United States, it is home to nearly two-thirds as many freshwater fishes as those that swim the waters of the United States and Canada combined. Mexico's diverse freshwater fauna can be attributed to the country's highly varied physical geography, a wide latitudinal range, the largest river system in middle America, and, ironically, its oceans--many marine groups left the brine for the inland...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226526046
• ISBN13: 9780226526041
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 652 Pages
• Weight: 3.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 8.8" x 11.3"