Re: NANFA-L-- Mexican fish book

dlmcneely-in-lunet.edu
Mon, 24 Apr 2006 10:00:12 -0500

Sorry, meant to comment on the book. In a word, awsome! Dave

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----- Original Message -----
From: dlmcneely-in-lunet.edu
Date: Monday, April 24, 2006 9:49 am
Subject: Re: NANFA-L-- Mexican fish book
> Just got the book a few weeks ago. BTW, I was in Colima state (S.
> 0f
> Guadalajara) for the SW Association of Naturalists meeting a
> little
> over a week ago. Bright clear tropical desert and mountain
> country.
> Beautiful, crystal streams coming off the volcanoes, loaded with
> Goodeids, poeciliids, some minnows, an endemic "Cichlasoma," and
> goby's. A fun time. I didn't collect, just observed, some of
> these
> fishes. Significant other natural diversity, too, in a state that
> is
> relatively sparsely populated.
>
> Dave
>
> David L. McNeely, Ph.D., Professor of Biology
> Langston University; P.O. Box 1500
> Langston, OK 73050; email: dlmcneely-in-lunet.edu
> telephone: (405) 466-6025; fax: 405) 466-3307
> home page http://www.lunet.edu/mcneely/index.htm
>
> "Where are we going?" "I don't know, are we there yet?"
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: IndyEsox-in-aol.com
> Date: Thursday, April 20, 2006 9:19 pm
> Subject: NANFA-L-- Mexican fish book
> > From the University of Chicago new publication list.
> >
> > Title: Miller, Robert Rush: Freshwater Fishes of Mexico
> > Publisher: University of Chicago Press
> >
> > No one knew Mexican freshwaters or the fish that inhabit them
> better> than the late world-renowned ichthyologist Robert Rush
> Miller. He
> > amassed the information necessary to write the first
> encyclopedia of
> > Mexican inland ichthyology. This book provides keys to more
> than 500
> > native species, accompanied by detailed distribution maps and
> > illustrations.
> >
> > For more information, see the book synopsis at
> > http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/16218.ctl
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