Field Guide to Fishes of the Chesapeake Bay

Edward O. Murdy is the director of the National Science Foundation office in Tokyo, Japan. John A. Musick is the Marshall Acuff Professor Emeritus in Marine Science at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William and Mary. Val Kells is a marine science illustrator who has contributed to a long list of publications, including A Field Guide to Coastal Fishes, also published by Johns Hopkins.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionWatershed, History, and Hydrology of the Chesapeake BayGeneral Characteristics of Chesapeake Bay Fish FaunaSeasonal Fish Faunal ChangesConservation and Environmental Management of Chesapeake Bay FishesThe Scope of This Field GuideOrganizationHow to Identify Fishes in the BayHow to Use the KeysMorphologyBasic Counts and MeasurementsSpecies AccountsLampreys - Family PetromyzontidaeDogfish sharks - Family SqualidaeRequiem sharks - Family CarcharhinidaeHammerhead sharks - Family SphyrnidaeHound sharks - Family TriakidaeBasking shark - Family CetorhinidaeSand tigers - Family OdontaspididaeAngel sharks - Family SquatinidaeSawfishes - Family PristidaeWhiptail stingrays - Family DasyatidaeButterfly rays - Family GymnuridaeEagle rays - Family MyliobatidaeCownose rays - Family RhinopteridaeSkates - Family RajidaeSturgeons - Family AcipenseridaeGars - Family LepisosteidaeBowfins - Family AmiidaeTenpounders - Family ElopidaeTarpons - Family MegalopidaeFreshwater eels - Family AnguillidaeConger eels - Family CongridaeHerrings - Family ClupeidaeAnchovies - Family EngraulidaeSuckers - Family CatostomidaeCarps and minnows - Family CyprinidaeSea catfishes - Family AriidaeNorth American catfishes - Family IctaluridaePikes - Family EsocidaeMudminnows - Family UmbridaeLizardfishes - Family SynodontidaeCusk-eels - Family OphidiidaeCods - Family GadidaeMerlucciid hakes - Family MerlucciidaePhycid hakes - Family PhycidaeToadfishes - Family BatrachoididaeGoosefishes - Family LophiidaeMullets - Family MugilidaeNew World silversides - Family AtherinopsidaeNeedlefishes - Family BelonidaeHalfbeaks - Family HemiramphidaePupfishes - Family CyprinodontidaeTopminnows - Family FundulidaeLivebearers - Family PoeciliidaeSticklebacks - Family GasterosteidaePipefishes - Family SyngnathidaeSculpins - Family Cottidae and Lumpfishes - Family CyclopteridaeSearobins - Family TriglidaeButterfishes - Family StromateidaeCutlassfishes - Family TrichiuridaeSand lances - Family AmmodytidaeJacks - Family CarangidaeCobia - Family RachycentridaeRemoras - Family EcheneidaeMackerels - Family ScombridaeBarracudas - Family SphyraenidaeStargazers - Family UranoscopidaeDrums and croakers - Family SciaenidaeSpadefishes - Family EphippidaeBluefish - Family PomatomidaeClingfishes - Family GobiesocidaeGobies - Family GobiidaeTemperate basses - Family MoronidaePerches - Family PercidaeCombtooth blennies - Family BlenniidaeSnakeheads - Family ChannidaeButterflyfishes - Family ChaetodontidaeMojarras - Family GerreidaePorgies - Family SparidaeSnappers - Family LutjanidaeGrunts - Family HaemulidaeSunfishes - Family CentrarchidaeWrasses - Family LabridaeMedusafishes - Family CentrolophidaeSea basses and groupers - Family SerranidaeTriggerfishes - Family BalistidaePorcupinefishes - Family DiodontidaeFilefishes - Family MonacanthidaeBoxfishes - Family OstraciidaePuffers - Family TetraodontidaeAmerican soles - Family AchiridaeTonguefishes - Family CynoglossidaeSand flounders - Family ParalichthyidaeRighteye flounders - Family PleuronectidaeTurbots - Family ScophthalmidaeAppendices1. Key to the Orders and Families of Chesapeake Bay Fishes2. Key to the Families of Perciformes Fishes in the Chesapeake Bay3. Keys to Species within Families4. Fish Species Rarely Recorded from the Chesapeake BayGlossary of Selected Technical TermsIndex to Scientific NamesIndex to Common Names

A must have for those with an interest in the fishes of the region. -- Ian Paulsen Birdbooker Report Finally! A truly comprehensive and well-illustrated field guide to the fishes of the Chesapeake Bay is available. -- Wendy Gilbert Mariner Chesapeake Director of the National Science Foundation office in Tokyo, Murdy and Musick catalogue fish... in the largest of US estuaries... The information is oriented towards fishing, and the excellent drawings by marine science illustrator Val Kells are not fanciful in-habitat creations, but aids for identifying the species of the fish in the bottom of the boat. Reference and Research Book News The only comprehensive field guide to the Chesapeake's fishes, this book is an indispensable resource for both anglers and students of the Bay. Northeastern Naturalist [Kells] is meticulous in her detail that makes her final product scientifically accurate so that her images can be used by scientist and the public alike. Anyone with an interest in the Chesapeake Bay and its fishes will find her work invaluable as a resource. Marine Environmental Research Corporation Field Guide to the Fishes of the Chesapeake Bay will enrich the time anyone spends on the waters of the Chesapeake... The science is solid as it should be from two veteran ichythologists, but it also carries an engaging human touch that brings each species to life. -- John Page Williams Chesapeake Bay Magazine Overall, a very useful guide to fish of this region. Choice The new Field Guide to Fishes of the Chesapeake Bay will enrich the time anyone spends on the waters of the Chesapeake. Chesapeake Bay Magazine The authors accomplished what they set out to do and did it well. Those with an interest in fishes of the Chesapeake region should buy the book: they won't be sorry. -- Willliam D. Anderson, Jr. Copeia