The Fishes of the Gal?pagos Islands

by Jack Grove and Robert Lavenberg

Standing in awe-inspiring isolation in the central eastern Pacific and harboring living organisms found nowhere else on Earth, the Gal pagos Islands played a pivotal role in the development of the epochal theories of Charles Darwin. This book marks the culmination of icthyological research extending back to 1835, when Darwin was the first to collect fishes from the Gal pagos. It thoroughly documents and illustrates the fishes of the Gal pagos in the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804722897
• ISBN13: 9780804722896
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 912 Pages
• Weight: 4.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 7.3" x 10.3"