SOUTH AFRICAN RED DATA BOOK: FISHES. A REPORT OF THE...

1987 1st edition. 4to paperback. Ppvi,199. B/w line drawings, maps, bibliography.

." ...Committee for Nature Conservation Research National Programme for Ecosystem Research. South African National Scientific Programmes Report No.137. 1987." "To date the NPER has produced nine of these reports in [this] series [1976 to 1986], covering the groups: birds; small mammals; fishes; large mammals; reptiles and amphibians; vascual plants and; plants in fynbos and karoo biomes. These volumes were all explicitly provisional, were based on the best available inofrmation. this was often embarrassingly sparse..." An introductory essay outlines the conservation situation with south and south west African fish species. The bulk of the book consists of a species by species account of fishes. Each has a line drawing and a map, as well as a description outlining taxonomic classification, status, research, identification, distribution, habitat and ecology, breeding biology, threats to survival, conservation attention given, conservation recommendations.