FIELD KEY TO THE FRESHWATER FISHES AND LAMPREYS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. By Alwyne Wheeler. A Field Studies Council publication.

1998 1st edition thus. Large 8vo stapled paperback (175 x 246mm). Pp40(pp355-94). B/w illustrations of fish throughout.

This book is an off-print of Field Studies, 9, (1998) 355-394. A very useful guide by a noted expert, now republished as part of the Aids to Identification In Difficult Groups of Animals and Plants scheme. Contents include; The composition of the fauna; Habitats; Systematic list; Key to the identification of major groups; Identification of individual species; Eels; Shads; Carp family; Loaches; Catfishes; Pike; Salmon and relatives; Burbot; Sticklebacks; Bullhead; Perch and relatives; Gobies; Flounders; Lampreys. A companion title to Field Key to the Shore Fishes of the British Isles, also by Alwyne Wheeler.