Fishes of Japan --with pictorial keys to the species, English Edition

ISBN978-4-486-01570-3 C3645

257mm×182mm 1800pp 2vols

Retail price : 36,000 yen

Tokai University Press

Tokai University Alumni Hall, 3-10-35, Minamiyana, Hadano-shi, Kanagawa 257-0003, JAPAN

Future Release: April, 2002.

Authors:

Masahiro Aizawa (Coastal Branch of Natural History Museum and Institute, Chiba)

Akihito, Emperor of Japan

Yoshimasa Aonuma (Seikai National Fisheries Research Institute, Fisheries Research Agency)

Kiyotaka Hatooka (Osaka Museum of Natural History)

Masayoshi Hayashi (Yokosuka City Museum)

Kazumi Hosoya (Faculty of Agriculture, Kinki University)

Yuji Ikeda (Biological Laboratory, Imperial Household)

Tetsuji Nakabo (The Kyoto University Museum, Kyoto University)

Katsuichi Sakamoto (Biological Laboratory, Imperial Household)

Hiroshi Senou (Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Natural History)

Kazuhiko Shimada (Fisheries Section, Miyako Branch, Okinawa Prefecture)

Kayo Sugiyama (Biological Laboratory, Imperial Household)

Umeyoshi Yamada (Seikai National Fisheries Research Institute, formerly Fisheries Agency)

Tetsuo Yoshino (Faculty of Science, University of the Ryukyus)

All the marine and freshwater fishes in Japanese waters, 353 families and 3863 species, are covered here with full illustrations introduced by pictorial keys. There has never been a comprehensive book to show all the species of the Japanese fishes like “Fishes of Japan with pictorial keys to the species”. Each species is given the latest scientific name, Japanese common name, size, meristic characters, habitats, and geographic distribution. Additional comments, taxonomic problems related to synonymy and references of the species are included.

Characteristics of this book

1	Illustrated morphological characters and lines lead you to the correct species for your unidentified specimen. This method for identification of fishes is the first of this kind in the world.
2	You can see clearly the differences between related or similar species, because they are shown on the same page.
3	You can easily compare the morphological and ecological characteristics of related species, because they are shown on the same page.
4	Most of the fish species from Japan occur in other areas of the Indo-Pacific, therefore you can identify many species of the region with this book.

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