Hi Mark - yep, I've seen the book.  It's a good taxonomic text, but doesn't
really cover the biology/ecology/functional morphology/oceanography....that
I'm looking for in a basic text.  All the books that do cover that material
are currently out of print.

Oh well, I'll keep looking.

Thanks.

Jon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Tupper" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 11:54 AM
Subject: Re: Larval Fish texts


> Jon,
>
> How about Able & Fahay's "The first year in the life of estuarine fishes
of
> the Middle Atlantic Bight"? It covers a number of species that would be
> found in the central/north Florida area.
>
> Mark Tupper
> Florida Marine Research Institute
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jon Shenker <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 10:29 AM
> Subject: Larval Fish texts
>
>
> > I'm preparing for my biannual grad. course in Reproduction and
Recruitment
> > of Marine Fishes, and am looking for information about any new texts
that
> > may be useful for the class.  The students spend most of their time
> reading
> > research papers, but some books have been very useful.  Unfortunately,
> > outside of Sale's Ecology of Fishes on Coral Reefs, most of the relevant
> > books are now out of print (e.g. Lasker's Marine Fish Larvae, Kamler's
> Early
> > Life History of Fish: An Energetics Approach, Thresher's Reproduction of
> > Reef Fishes, Hoar and Randalls' Fish Physiol. vols. on larvae).
> >
> > Any suggestions about other texts that I should look at would be much
> > appreciated.
> >
> > Jon Shenker
> > Florida Institute of Technology
> >
> > ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><>
> >        To leave the Fish-Sci list, Send blank message to:
> >         mailto:[log in to unmask]
> >  For information send INFO FISH-SCI to [log in to unmask]
> > ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><>
> >
>
> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><>
>        To leave the Fish-Sci list, Send blank message to:
>         mailto:[log in to unmask]
>  For information send INFO FISH-SCI to [log in to unmask]
> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><>

><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><>
       To leave the Fish-Sci list, Send blank message to:
        mailto:[log in to unmask]
Vacation? send SET FISH-SCI NOMAIL to [log in to unmask]
><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><>