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Discovery of Australia's Fishes: A History of Australian Ichthyology to 1930
Hardcover
ISBN13: 9780643106703
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Published: May 11 2012
Pages: 520
Weight: 3.20
Height: 1.40 Width: 6.80 Depth: 9.70
Language: English
This book traces the discovery of Australia's fishes from the earliest days of taxonomy to the first part of the 20th century. It provides a unique insight into the diverse pathways by which Australia's fish were discovered and outlines the history of early maritime explorations in Australia that collected natural history specimens. The book covers the life and work of each of the most important discoverers, and assesses their accomplishments and the limitations of their work.
Discovery of Australia's Fishes is distinctive in that a biographic approach is integrated with chronological descriptions of the discovery of the Australian fish fauna. Many of northern Australia's fishes are found in parts of the Indian and western Pacific oceans. The book covers the work of collectors who travelled outside Australia, together with that of the British and European zoologists who received and described their collections. The account ceases at 1930, the year the first modern checklist of Australian fishes was published.
2012 Whitley Award Commendation for Historical Zoology.
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