Good morning,
to pass my breeding in professional, I must constitute a file with files for each kind of fish which I wish to maintain / raise (it is obligatory in France). So I'm looking for a reference book, a world atlas with as many species as possible.
I already have several books on catfish (including Atlas of freshwater and marine catfishes) that can be used as a reference.
However, I only have mergus atlases for other fish.
Do you have a good atlas to recommend? Ideally, I should have only one reference, so a book that brings together the atlas on catfishes but also on other fish.
Does it exist?
If it's not a single book, maybe a particular collection?
world freshwater fish atlas
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Re: world freshwater fish atlas
A book of all sweet water fishes in the world would be too much to ask for. I have the book about sweet water fishes of Mexico - not much catdfish - but this one book is ome 300 pages. Large pages.
The book you would be after would be thousands of pages, a few kilos in total.
The book you would be after would be thousands of pages, a few kilos in total.
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Re: world freshwater fish atlas
That's why I would rather think of a collection of books with several volumes, a bit like encyclopedias.
If really there is nothing like that, I will try to collect books but the problem will be at the level of the scientific names which have sometimes changed.
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Re: world freshwater fish atlas
I'm not sure you can do better than the Mergus (Baensch) Atlases for being up-to-date and covering many fishes. The TFH atlas is getting even older looking and everything else of any size is even older again.
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Re: world freshwater fish atlas
ok thanks