Amirthalingam, C. and El Yasaa Khalifa, M. A Guide to the Common Commercial Freshwater Fishes in the Sudan.
1st. Ed. Pub. Game and Fisheries Dept. Sudan. 1965 c.200. Line drawings. Text in English and Arabic. DW. chipped and lightly browned in places. Front internal hinge a little tender. Otherwise vg. Scarce.
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Black, K.D. & Pickering, A.D. (Eds.). Biology of Farmed Fish.
1st. Pub. Sheffield Academic Press. 1998 pp.xiv, 415 with text figs. Dustwrapper spine gently faded otherwise a fine copy.
This landmark volume considers the biology underlying fish culture, focusing on developments over the last decade.
£35.00 [ref: 24055]

Deraniyagala, P.E.P. Fishes of Ceylon.
[Pub. Ceylon National Museums.] [1952] Thirty four full-page, colour plates after watercolours. Landscape 4to. Contents fine. Original cloth nr. fine.
The 34 colour plates from ‘A Colored Atlas of Some Vertebrates from Ceylon (Illustrated by the author). Volume one. Fishes.’ Each plate gives details of the scientific name, the scale and whether the fish is from a marine of fresh water habitat. Plates include Black Marlin, Little Tuna, Common Dolphinfish and a Sri Lankan Stone Sucker.
£25.00 [ref: 61033]

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Evans, D.H. The Physiology of Fishes.
3rd. Ed. Pub. CRC Taylor and Francis. 2005 pp. 601. Mint hardback.
This third edition is a complete reworking of the original published a decade ago.This volume will appeal to students as well as ichthyologists, and marin biologists and comparitive physiologists.
£40.00 [ref: 33758]

Fowler, H.W. The Fishes of the Groups Elasmobranchii, Holocephali, Isospondyli, and Ostarophysi Obtained by the United States Bureau of Fisheries Steamer “Albatross” in 1907 to 1910, chiefly in the Philippine Islands and Adjacent Seas. Contributions to the Biology of the Philippine Archipelago and Adjacent Regions. United States National Museum Bulletin 100 Volume 13.
Pub. Smithsonian Inst. 1941 pp.x, 879 with some text figs. Foxing to edges of contents. Overall a vg. copy. Softback.
£18.00 [ref: 45852]

Gulland, J.A. Manual Methods for Fish Stock Assessment. Part 1. Fish Population Analysis.
Pub. FAO. 1976 pp.vii, 154 with tables and figs. Foxing to top-edge. A vg. copy in card covers.
£15.00 [ref: 38908]

Herre, A.W. English and Local Common Names of Philippine Fishes. Circular 14.
Pub. US Govt. 1948 pp.vi, 128. VG. in card covers.
The English, local common Philippino and scientific names are given for each fish.
£15.00 [ref: 34247]

Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique. Expedition Oceanographique Belge dans les Eaux Cotieres Africaines de l’Atlantique Sud (1948-1949). Poissons: Generalites; Selaciens et Chimeres; Teleosteens Acanthopterygiens (premiere partie) par Max Poll.
Pub. Institut Royal. 1951-54 4 parts in two volumes with hundreds of b/w. plates, line drawings, tables, etc. Bound in reference cloth, preserving original wrappers. Volume 4 Parts 1 ,2, 3A and 3B . Very good in cloth boards. All text in French.
£23.00 [ref: 21881]

Liewes, E.W. Culture, Feeding and Diseases of Commercial Flatfish Species.
Pub. A.A. Balkema. 1984 pp.viii, 104 with b/w. photographs and other text figs. Dustwrapper is a little faded to spine and has 1 small closed tear to front. Overall a vg. copy. Scarce.
£30.00 [ref: 44167]

Lowe-McConnell, R.H. Ecological studies in tropical fish communities.
1st. Pub. C.U.P. 1987 pp.382 with text figs. A vg. copy in card covers. From the library of Philip S. Corbet.
Tropical fish present some of the best examples of how new species evolve and how complex ecological communities are maintained.. Their study has generated important new ideas on the roles of ecology and behaviour in the evolution of species and communities.
£20.00 [ref: 34977]