Guide expert des Poissons d'eau douce de Guyane

This guide is intended for river communities and, more generally, for Guyanese people, fishermen, teachers and professionals in the tourism and nature recreation industries, giving them access to an exceptional biodiversity. Fish enthusiasts and aquarists will find what they are looking for, as will naturalists, managers and those attached to Guyana's natural heritage.

The advantages of this book

• Presentation of more than 600 species of freshwater fish in French Guiana, updated with recent advances, including more than 100 cryptic species revealed by genetic approaches;
• Nearly 600 extremely accurate colour drawings of high artistic and scientific quality;
• Practical illustrated identification keys enable external recognition of orders, families and genera; • In addition to scientific names, the vernacular names used by the different populations of French Guiana are given;
• Each species is the subject of a monograph with a discriminating description of its morphology and colour pattern (criteria for distinguishing between closely related or similar species), distribution, and brief biological information (size, diet, habitat, etc.);
• The IUCN status relating to the vulnerability of species, but also, in a highly innovative move, a reference number providing access to its unique DNA barcode on dedicated databases.

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