The Fishes and the Forest

The Fishes and the Forest

Explorations in Amazonian Natural History

by Michael Goulding

280 pages· 1980· ISBN 9780520041318
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Rivers floodplains, and flooded forests of the Amazon; Fish diversity in the Amazon; The nature of fish migrations in the Rio Madeira basin; The fruit - and seed-eating large characins; The seed-, fruit-, and leaf-eating pacu characins; Fruits, seeds, insects, and the pectoral fin: an account of Triportheus; Piranhas; Characins of the family Anostomidae; Midwater and surface "scaled" predators that swallow their prey whole; Catfishes; The bony-tongues or osteoglossids; Interactions of fishes with fruits and seeds; Amazon fishes and their foods.

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