Field Guide to Coastal Fishes

 A Field Guide to Coastal Fishes: From Maine to Texas is a comprehensive, most current and accurate identification guide to the more than 1,000 nearshore and offshore fishes that live in brackish and marine waters from Maine to Texas. Val Kells and Kent Carpenter bring decades of experience to this project. With Kells' detailed and vivid illustrations, and Carpenter's deep knowledge of biology, taxonomy, and nomenclature this book captured the stunning diversity of species along America's eastern shores.

Key Features of the book include:
• More than 1,100 vibrant, full-color illustrations set side by side with over 900 descriptions of each fish
• Diagnostic characteristics for field identification, range, habitat, and brief biology
• An introductory chapter that covers anatomy, shapes, and patterns of fishes

• A Family chapter that describes in concise terms, common aspects of family members
• Glossary of terms, and online descriptions of rare fishes also in the area

From the Arctic waters of Alaska to the southern tip of California, this fully illustrated guide captures the stunning diversity of fishes along the western coastlines of the United States and Canada. The combine works of renowned marine Science Illustrator Val Kells and distinguished ichthyologists Luiz A. Rocha and Larry G. Allen, A Field Guide to Coastal Fishes: From Alaska to ca to California is the region's most current and thorough fish identification guide.

Key Features of the book include:
• Over 950 illustrations of adult fishes, juveniles, and color variants
• Descriptions of 157 fish families and almost 700 individual species
• An introductory chapter that covers anatomy, shapes, and patterns of fishes

• A Family chapter that describes in concise terms, common aspects of family species
• Glossary of terms, and online descriptions of rare fishes also in the area